Community, Creativity, Culture, Music, Punk Rock, Venues
I’m with the band – Cape Town post-punkers Tough Guy travel north for a weekend of mayhem TOUGH GUY sound like a bar fight in a backwater saloon. A pool cue getting a friendly introduction to cranium. Glass crunching under boot. They’re fierce and fuck-off loud....
Community, Creativity, Culture, Music, Punk Rock, Tattoo Art, Venues
Tattoo Artist Feature: Meet Shelby Downey – Founder of Randburg-based Tattoo Studio ‘SheKnows Ink’ Hailing from the underrated coastal town of East London, Shelby Downey has made quite the splash in the City of Gold, and in SA’s tattoo scene in general. Words by...
Community, Creativity, Culture, Events, Music, Music Festivals, Punk Rock, Venues
That Animal Connection – Music Festival review: That 70’s Fest, 2-3 April, Tweefontein Melkery, Gauteng Natalie Murfin takes a ludicrously lekker tour through an old school style underground rock festival and revels again in the sheer animal human...
Community, Creativity, Culture, Legends, Music, Punk Rock, Venues
The blunt mag Night Crawler Files: Fokof Bar and music venue, Pretoria The first in a series of reviews of popular South African alternative watering holes and music venues – starting with the infamous ‘Fokof Bar’ in Pretoria. By Micheal Bower. Photos by Robert...
Culture, Music, Punk Rock
Here’s Fuzigish! SA’s much loved and iconic ska-punk band are releasing a new single this month ‘Believer’ A Fuzi album launch, a new sound, and the sweaty, skankin’ ska tour of SA you won’t wanna miss! By Natalie Murfin. Guess what? Fuzigish just launched...
Archive, Creativity, Interviews, Legends, Music, Social Activism
From the blunt mag archive: Battery 9 – Is Paul Riekert a good oke? blunt interviewed legendary hard core SA musician Paul Reikert of Joburg’s Battery 9 back in the day after the release of his album ‘Wrok’ to find out what made him tick. Words by Craig Jarvis Battery...
