Texx and the City

10 stories

Texx and the CityScenesGAYLE’s debut album observes the chaos of growing up “F*** you and your mom and your sister and your job” is perhaps one of the boldest opening

11.06

Texx and the CityScenesAt Ramfest 2026, the local lineup rocked hardest The highlights of this year’s Ramfest Halloween were homegrown. Canadian headliners Silverstein delivered a good set, and for

11.05

Texx and the CityScenes5 parties you need to go to: November 2026 I write this in the midst of experiencing some serious post-party blues (all natural, I promise). This is

11.05

Texx and the CityScenesKirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts returns for a star-studded 34th season One of Cape Town’s most beloved summer traditions is making its return, with the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts

11.05

Texx and the CityScenesHazy Dreams Music Festival announces first wave of artists including BLK JKS, BEAST, and more Hazy Dreams Music Festival, a new independent music festival happening in Franschhoek announcing the first wave of artists

11.05

Texx and the CityScenesUp The Creek 2027 announces second wave of artists The river is calling, and the soundtrack to summer has just got even bigger. Up The Creek Music

11.05

Texx and the CityScenesDroniac release the music video for “She’s A Cancer” As the opening track on Droniac’s debut album Limerence, “She’s a Cancer” captures the heady beginnings of an

11.05

Texx and the CityScenesThe Love Song Ends. The Character Keeps Talking. A good love song gives you just enough of a story to start inventing the rest. Someone is

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Texx and the CityScenesCape Town International Jazz Festival expands into 2027 with Emma Nissen, Simphiwe Dana, and more The Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) is switching things up in 2027, expanding beyond its traditional, one-venue

10.29

Texx and the CityScenesRoi Turbo team up with Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele for new single “Can’t Stop The Beat” How often do you think about Empire Of The Sun? If it’s as often as I do (once

10.29

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.