"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~ Anton Chekhov
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
Today and tomorrow, more than forty local and international artists will be performing in Cape Town on five different stages for the 13th annual installment of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. The festival, which will be held over two days on Friday 30 March and Saturday 31 March has grown immensely since it first […]
Getting excited yet? Sting was in London for 3 nights and played on Monday, 19 March 2012 at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo to a packed theater. See a short preview of the performance below. Sting will be performing at the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg tomorrow and Saturday and at the Grand Arena in Cape Town […]
Sting will be touring South Africa from 24-28 March 2012. His visit to South Africa forms part of his international Back to Bass tour which marks and celebrates the 25th anniversary of his solo career. He will be performing at the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg and the Grand Arena in Cape Town. If you don’t […]
One dark night, an aspiring Afrikaans superster rapper was chilling at home with one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies running in the background. “Screw Jack Sparrow”, he thought to himself mindfully before uttering the words “I am Jack Parow, pirate of the caravan park.” Jack Parow, best known for his single “Cooler as […]
Whitney Houston, American singer, performer and actress and one of the most successful female artists of all time, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room this weekend – just hours before she was expected to appear at an annual pre-Grammy party. Even though the 80’s and 90’s saw the heights of Houston’s career, […]
This month, Die Antwoord released their latest album Ten$ion featuring their brand new single “I Fink U Freeky.” The music video that was done in collaboration with South African photographer, Roger Ballen, has been a huge viral success as with their previous work – boasting nearly 1.5 million views. This rap-rave crew performed on the […]
TimesLIVE named the top ten love songs that, if you remove the music, would be more likely to get you a restraining order than a date: 10) Boys 2 Men, I’ll make love to you Okay, here’s the pitch, a guy meets a woman in a bar and his whole promise is that he’ll have […]
Some days I like to pretend that I’m Jason Statham in Crank, and that I will die if my heart rate drops to normal levels. It is on days like that that I crank up the music to 11. Today, of course, is just such a day: it’s 11/11/11, after all. To celebrate, NPR’s All […]
The international superact Coldplay has released the music video for their single, Paradise, taken from their upcoming album Mylo Xyloto. Times LIVE reports: The band, recently on tour in the country, said they were so taken by the beauty of the land, the cities and especially the sunshine, they decided to shoot a video here. Taking a break […]
Recollection is a two-disc compilation of some of k.d. Lang’s most wonderful songs. Lang’s rich, smooth vocals and her seduction of the guitar are showcased only too well in this collection. I remember hearing Miss Chatelaine as a child, and it was on the strength of that one song that k.d. Lang’s voice has been a part of […]
