When the South African four-piece rock band BLK JKS headed to the United States to record their first full-length album last January, they left the blazing Johannesburg summertime for the depths of ...

For many years, the sound of South African music was intertwined with the fight against apartheid. We were used to hearing toi-toi — the angry but joyous chanting that was the soundtrack to ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - When the South African four-piece rock band BLK JKS headed to the United States to record their first full-length album last January, they left the blazing Johannesburg ...

No band on the planet right now is overplaying with the titanic, fearless, stupendously excessive gusto of South African art-rockers BLK JKS, an alternately gorgeous and grating jazz-prog-dub-metal ...

Johannesburg-based quartet BLK JKS is continuing to crank out the party tunes with their new EP, ZOL! Out June 8th on Secretly Canadian, the new set of songs, as the press release so succinctly put it ...

Abantu/Before Humans brings a lot on board. Take second track “Running - Asibaleki / Sheroes Theme”. After beginning with percussion and mournful singing, it adds descending fuzz guitar refrains and, ...

BLK JKS, a South African indie band that has received much buzz in the past year, will be joined by none other than Alicia Keys to kick off the 2010 World Cup. The soulful New York songstress will ...

South Africa’s BLK JKS have four NYC area shows scheduled for May/June. The first comes Wednesday, May 27th to the Bell House in Brooklyn. Tickets are on sale now. The next is Tuesday, June 2nd at NYC ...

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With an experimental sound that fuses jazz, funk, and rock, South African quartet BLK JKS (pronounced “Black Jacks”) have found fans in Diplo and the Secret Machines — and become one of 2009’s hottest ...

We're pretty stoked here at DiS - South African dub-fusionists BLK JKS and Icelanders múm have been announced as the final additions to DiS' stage at the Leicestival that is Summer Sundae. múm will ...

So runs the text on the back of the sleeve of the second album from Johannesburg’s Blk Jks, the belated follow-up to their 2009 debut After Humans. Helping them build from this inscrutable manifesto ...