We want you to get hyped about Shane Watcha this Friday at Fiction. In order to do that we are giving away guestlist to the 5 people who make the most noise about this event before midnight on Thursday. All you have to do to enter is invite as many friends to the event on [...]

It’s time to Disco this Friday at Assembly! Discotheque presents Double Destruction, featuring Shuffle Shame, Blush n Bass, Grave Danger and Enough Weapons. Assembly and Electrotrash are offering 2x double tickets for the party. All you have to do is email us and answer this simple question: Who invented the lightbulb? First two correct answers [...]

GRIET Presents HAEZER, Double Adapter, Sakitumi and AudioPhile @ TOWN HALL Town Hall 66 Carr Street, Newtown Johannesburg, South Africa Come Celebrate 2 Years of GRIET!!!! Ok People! this is our BANGER of the year party!!!!! After all the off-the-hook acts we have hosted this year like CYBERPUNKERS (Italy), Le Castle Vania (USA), Dj Antention [...]

This weekend see’s one of the raddest festivals hitting both the Western Cape and Gauteng at the same time! Rocking The Daisies is down at the Cloof Wine Estate in Darling, 8,9 and 10 October and Rocking The Gardens is at Emmarentia Dam in Johannesburg. The international highlight at both festivals this year will be [...]

Havana Club Rum, Discotheque & Griet pres. LE CASTLE VANIA (teaser) from The Assembly on Vimeo. CAPE TOWN – Le Castle Vania will perform at Discotheque Friday 27th August 2010 at The Assembly, in association with Havana Club Rum and Griet. See the Facebook event here! PRETORIA – Le Castle Vania will perform at Dogbox [...]

Closer is a fresh collaboration between Tokyo Sky, Deconstruction, Kat Trim & Trouble Magazine. Expect an alternative music experience every Thursday night, filled with the music we love, beautiful visuals and an electrifying venue. We are playing with traditional formulas and mixing it up. The chemistry is volatile, the result is alchemy. It’s a new [...]

“The Red Bull Studio Sessions” presented by DJ Low is a DJ mix featuring some of the best music to be made at the Red Bull Music Studio in Cape Town. It is the culmination of two years of trial and error in making the studio what it is today: a space that attempts to [...]

Some of you may have heard that Johnny Foreigner will be touring South Africa this year. While this UK indie rock band may be pretty far removed from electronic music we still though it would be rad to promote it a bit here. Griet are bringing them into the country and they represent a couple [...]

SOUL /// FUNK /// WONK /// DISCO /// HOUSE /// ELECTRO A whole bunch of us that stay in and around Johannesburg, that also run various music blogs are throwing a party this coming Saturday! It will be at the intimate Kitchener’s Carvery! The line-up is as follows: 09:00-10:00 – ASH | Soul /// Funk [...]

In our continued attempt to bring some fun and awesomeness to the 012 (Pretoria) the VIRAL Sessions have been launched. Opening things up will be Red Eye Jedi, a stonerjam band featuring guitars and djembe’s. This will be followed by Jozi’s own ridiculously awesome Destrukto and the Cutout Collective, an electronic/alternative band that combines synths [...]

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, you’ve probably heard of the massive music festival known as The Urban Electric to be held on the 1st of August. For those of you that haven’t heard about it let me give you a brief rundown of what to expect. [...]

So if you are up in Jo’burg this coming Friday I insist that you go down to the Woods… you’ll be in for a big surprise! MtKidu will be launching there new album in August this year and have loads of new tunes to play you, so why not grab a sneak preview of their [...]

Based in London, Trevor Jackson founded the label Output Recordings in 1996, which introduced the world to such genre defying and inventive bands and acts as LCD Soundsystem, the Rapture, Four Tet and his own project Playgroup which helped create the blueprint for present day electro. Over the ten years that Output was in existence, [...]

If you are in Cape Town this coming weekend, you are in luck! T.I.T.E.S. is happening at The Assembly on Friday 27 February… Featuring a killer electro line-up its a party not to be missed! Read more about the event here! Grab a free track below to get you in the mood! Tweet This!