Explore how Dankie Boi, Blacks Jnr and GoldMax are redefining gqom music with their latest album 'New Wave', a vibrant ...

Gqom music—a sound emanating from the South African city of Durban—has been on the come-up for a while now. Appropriately for a sound that is both impactful and subtle, gqom's road to success has been ...

Head of the Gqom Oh! label, Nan Kolè has been undertaking a massive project over the past few months. Allying with Rome-based radio station Crudo Volta, Kolè has been travelling around South Africa, ...

“With Southside, I wanted to celebrate where I’m from while showing where the Gqom sound is going,” says DJ Lag. “It’s for the people who’ve been with me from the start, and for everyone discovering ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...

Gqom music was all the rage around six or seven years ago, and some might believe that this movement has died. However, a young artist by the name of Mr Thela would disagree with this vehemently.

Before DJ Lag became the Gqom pioneer, he began playing with beats on the popular music editing software Fruity Loops (now FL Studio). “I started producing for my brother, a rapper, in 2006. I tried ...

Mzansi Magic’s new drama is a noir take on the music industry through the eyes of a gqom group, called Sgubu, from Alice, a small town in the Eastern Cape. The group faces a traumatic time dealing ...

From the streets of KwaMashu “to the world” is what Distruction Boyz aim to do with their new sound electro gqom music (EGM) on their newly released album. The 'boyz', Thobani 'Que' Mgobhozi and Zipho ...

The Durban producer brings the heat with the explosive ‘3 Step Culo’. Gqom pioneer DJ Lag has dropped new single ‘3 Step Culo’, taken from his forthcoming EP Stampit, via London label Goon Club ...