After a challenging period in her personal life, Babes Wodumo, the Queen of Gqom, is back — and she’s doing it in style with ...

South African Gqom star Babes Wodumo recently announced that she has dropped her new album on Friday, 3 October 2025. Many ...

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 ...

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Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

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 ...

The revamped SA Music Awards (Samas) categories have set tongues wagging in the music industry. What has irked the purists is the expansion of the definition of the Best Kwaito Album category to ...

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 ...