
Skyjacked: Kesivan Naidoo and the Tao of rhythm
South Africa’s pre-eminent jazz drummer celebrates improvisation and collectivism, and hails the virtues of tai chai.
South Africa’s pre-eminent jazz drummer celebrates improvisation and collectivism, and hails the virtues of tai chai.
With days to go before the 46th International Emmy Awards, New Frame caught up with Thuso Mbedu, who has been nominated again.
Twenty years on, Manu Chao’s gripping song on the perils of migrancy rings truer than ever, and still gets rumps shakin’.
A century after the end of the Great War, populist demagogues are leading radical reactionaries towards something that the world
For the hip-hop superstar living a jet-set life it’s no problem that Jacob Zuma plundered the public purse.
In the ‘urban catastrophe’ of the South Bronx in 1982 hip-hop transcended to a higher consciousness.
Two years after her debut album, Modiga is still dazzling audiences with performances from Yellow: The Novel.
We would do well to rehumanise ourselves through the teachings of Paulo Freire, one of the 20th century’s most radical thinkers and
Thandi Ntuli speaks about her momentous double album and what it means to feature on a Spike Lee Joint.
Few renditions of the global anthem of the Left are as gentle as Liela Groenewald’s.
Rage Against the Machine’s virtuosic guitarist is back with a genre-bending album ‘rooted in the sonics of 2018’.
Spending 40 years in exile inspired the Ugandan singer-songwriter to produce an extraordinarily heartfelt protest album.
The cheer and happiness Jabulani ‘Jabba’ Tsambo brought to South Africa’s hip-hop industry will live on.
Although tango has been ‘orientalised’ as a typical Argentine tourist trap, its inherent humanity, urgency and artistry are still as vital
In 1937 Billie Holiday first sang what many now regard as the greatest protest song in the history of recorded music.
In contrast to Brazil’s leap to the right in its elections, the recent polls in its neighbour to the west brought
renewed hope as the country bade farewell to its most notorious tyrant in recent memory.
Since adopting a new moniker, Tumi Molekane has given himself space to experiment and express himself in interesting ways.
The popular Chilean folk singer anticipated his brutal death at the hands of Pinochet’s soldiers.
Ghanian Afrobeat drummer Frank Ankrah, popularly known as CC Yoyo, recalls his experiences with Nigerian icon Fela Kuti and legendary drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen.
The guitarist and composer channels his rage at the rise of the right in Trump’s America, into two albums in which the virtuous and the
Masekela’s battle cry against the injustice of the migrant labour system on the mines has haunted us since its creation in the 1970s.