Tag: music
Fokofpolisiekar’s “Selfmedikasie” Is Medicine For The Soul
I have been in possession of Fokofpolisiekar’s latest offering, Selfmedikasie (“Self medication”) – the band’s first full-length album in a decade – for exactly two weeks now, having received a special pre-release digital download awarded to backers of the band’s recent...
Art, By Its Very Nature, Is Uncomfortable
Art, By Its Very Nature, Is Uncomfortable A couple of years ago, I visited a well-known and extremely popular flea market in Johannesburg, South Africa. At that particular flea market, there was a stall called The Little Shop of Strange...
How Heavy Music Has Taught Me to Love Myself
Heavy metal music is extremely important to me, and I often refer to it in pieces about my own life experiences. I have literally unfriended people for insulting my taste in music; and not in the superficial Facebook kind of...