Sugardrive

Along with the likes of Squeal, Urban Creep, Springbok Nude Girls, Lithium and Nine, Sugardrive were the face of new South African rock as the country became a democracy ten years ago. Between then and now, Sugardrive released 5 albums, headlined the major SA festivals, spawned a crop of radio hits, toured Australia on the Big Day Out tour and picked up a couple of SAMA awards... More »

Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors is an energetic new all-girl force from Johannesburg that brings new meaning to the phrase power-pop. With driving guitars, chunky basslines, punk-styled drumming and catchy melodies, the message behind the band is pure fun... More »

Underbelly

Underbelly formed in 2001 in Witbank with Etienne Olivier on vocals, Graham Calderhead on guitars, Graeme Collcut on drums and Emma Collcut on bass (the band was then known as “Papercutâ€?). Most of this year was spent on playing local rock shows... More »

Epicure

Epicure first released themselves to the ears of the RPS Emerging Sounds competition judges in 2004 and went straight to the annual finals at Caesars. They currently play all rock venues around Johannesburg building up a cult following... More »