Many say amapiano has taken over the music scene, thanks to DJ Maphorisa, but he still thinks gqom is a bomb genre. Maphorisa, who has been hailed as a musical genius and noted for turning everything ...

When Distruction Boyz dropped Omunye in 2017 they solidified the presence of gqom in SA and went on to become one of the most recognisable names but now, the gqom fever has 'died' down but they are ...

Red Bull Music Academy’s H∆SHTAG$ returns this week for a second series – and one of the music genres that gets the deep-dive treatment this time round is gqom. Watch it below – or scroll down to ...

MTV Base dives into the New Year with its continued commitment of bringing audiences local content productions that resonate strongly with viewers by announcing the sequel of the bass-filled show Gqom ...

Gqom pioneer, DJ Lag, and songstress, Shekinah release Anywhere We Go. Photo: Supplied Gqom pioneer, DJ Lag, and songstress, Shekinah have been teasing their collaboration Anywhere We Go for a while ...

A harder-edged sound designed for sweaty clubs. DJ Lag has debuted on Diplo’s Good Enuff imprint with Uhuru, a new EP named after a tiny club in the producer’s township of Clermont. The new project ...

This collaborative mixtape between Gqom Oh! and the Rome-based Crudo Volta collective showcases some of the best music that gqom—a raw, brash dance music coming from Durban—has ever produced. Save ...

Gqom music—a sound emanating from the South African city of Durban—has been on the come-up for a while now. Appropriately for a sound that is both impactful and subtle, gqom's road to success has been ...

Gqom (pronounced Gome) is a blistering variant of South African house which finds its roots in the coastal city of Durban. Like lots of the home-brewed genres of music in South Africa and beyond, a ...

“I was just trying to create something that sounded like hip-hop, but on a house tempo” is how DJ Lag tried to articulate his sound on our first meeting at his mother’s house in Clermont four years ...