The last time the South African Music Awards (SAMAs) were hosted in North West was in 2022. For the past three years, the awards have been held at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria (2023) and at the ...

Ahead of headlining the inaugural 'Scatterlings Music Festival' in Johannesburg, Grammy Award winner Zakes Bantwini opens up ...

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Music! There's so much of it! Fifty albums doesn't begin to encompass the scope of the sounds that have animated 2026, but it does present a cross section of the tunes and rhythms that have driven ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

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The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

Fast-Rising Nigerian singer-songwriter Abraham Osemekhian Hable, popularly known as Rolly Baba, is rapidly making his mark in the music industry. Known for his energetic fusion of Afrobeat and ...

Jeremy has more than 2600 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Please please please … may we have another year-in-music in 2025 as strong as this one? In coming up with 10 best album lists, each of Variety‘s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment ...

Charli XCX, Mk.gee and MJ Lenderman top our pop music critics’ lists this year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The agendas for 21st-century musicians keep getting more ...