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 ...

In 2017, after watching an EPK named Gqomwave (the title of both Maphorisa’s and Rudeboyz’s releases; you can guess who coined it first), I wrote about how little that mini-documentary told us about ...

Before amapiano we had gqom. What a time it was to be alive. A newer take on kwaito that was interwoven with elements of House music, this genre and its proponents had the nation in a chokehold but ...

Bhizer is gqom’s supreme penman. For evidence of that, one only has to listen to the 26-year-old’s hit, Aw’ Kodwa, which has now been co-opted by the award-winning kwaito group, Dbn Nyts. The song is ...

State OFFF demonstrates how there is "gqom everywhere" for this spine-tingling edition of The Mix, and tells Megan Townsend about how trading on his 'Hard Currency' helped him bring an array of global ...

This collaborative mixtape between Gqom Oh! and the Rome-based Crudo Volta collective showcases some of the best music that gqom—a raw, brash dance music coming from Durban—has ever produced. Save ...

Gqom pioneer DJ Lag has released a new six-track 'Uhuru' EP on Diplo's recently revived Good Enuff imprint. It also features collaborations with South African artists Moonchild Sanelly and Durban Gqom ...