120-781: The Parlotones are a renowned South African indie rock band hailing from Johannesburg , formed in 1998. The ensemble features Kahn Morbee on vocals and rhythm guitar, Paul Hodgson as lead guitarist, Glen Hodgson handling bass guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals, and Neil Pauw on drums and percussion. Originally rooted in Britpop , The Parlotones' music has evolved to encompass a diverse range of genres, with lyrics centered on relatable themes such as love and everyday life, complemented by engaging and memorable melodies. Within just four years of formation, The Parlotones signed with Sovereign Entertainment and released their debut album, Episoda . As one of South Africa's all-time best-selling music artists,
240-709: A reverb heavy, pop –influenced sound. Marked by the Clean's 1981 debut single "Tally-Ho!" and 1982's Dunedin Double EP featuring the Chills , Sneaky Feelings , the Verlaines and the Stones , its guitars were often jangly and droning and vocals indistinct. The following years, the Dunedin sound spread to other New Zealand cities such as Christchurch or Auckland . The decade then saw
360-405: A "new, yet familiar sound," included singles such as "Can You Feel It?" and "Beautiful Life." Throughout 2019, The Parlotones embarked on "The Unplugged(Ish) Tour" across South Africa, promoting their compilation album Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue . They were nominated for the 23rd South African Music Awards for their album Trinkets, Relics & Heirlooms in
480-595: A 2009 article for the Guardian , journalist Peter Robinson cited the landfill indie movement as dead, blaming the Wombats , Scouting For Girls , and Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong by stating "If landfill indie had been a game of Buckaroo , those three sent the whole donkey's arse of radio-friendly mainstream guitar band monotony flying high into the air, legs flailing." There continued to be commercial successes in
600-471: A 21-concert South African tour from April to May. In September 2015, Morbee became a coach for the South African version of The Voice . The band continued to release new music, including the 2016 album Trinkets, Relics and Heirlooms and the 2017 live album Orchestrated . In 2018, they released their tenth studio album China , which saw international release the following year. The album, which featured
720-568: A Life (2017) winning the Mercury Prize in 2018 and third album Blue Weekend (2021) being nominated. Writer Martin Young stated in a 2021 article for Dork that "It's impossible to truly state just how important Wolf Alice are. They are the catalyst for almost all the amazing bands you've read about in Dork over the last 5 years." 5FM 5FM is a South African FM radio station forming part of
840-566: A balance – a blend of 30 different varietals from the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley near Hermanus (20%). Principal members Early members Studio albums Indie rock Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels , by
960-536: A descriptor in its own right, describing not only the bands on the tape but also bands who it influenced, often used alongside terms like "anorak pop" and "shambling". Some C86 bands found significant commercial success: the Soup Dragons went on to sell out Madison Square Garden ; Primal Scream were critically acclaimed, receiving the first ever Mercury Prize in 1992; the Wedding Present charted eighteen times in
1080-522: A great time in Andrew’s studio and I think you can hear it if you listen to the album. It was quite a rough recording and definitely doesn’t sound as polished as the later albums we recorded. We experimented with a lot of things that were new concepts to us." —Paul Hodgson, on recording Episoda By 2003, The Parlotones had gained prominence in the Johannesburg underground music scene, attracting
1200-407: A key element of indie is the dichotomy between a "puritan ethos" and a "romantic one", with the former using austere ethics, and the latter being eccentric. This is best seen in the contrast between the indie music of United States and the United Kingdom in the 1990s, with British acts being flamboyant performers, while American acts used their lack of virtuosity as a mark of authenticity. Indie rock
1320-403: A month after signing his contract for the 2024/2025 lineup, Corder announced his departure from the show. As of now, the replacement for the breakfast show presenter has yet to be announced. 5FM weekday mid-morning presenters include Rob Vember, Poppy Ntshongwana and prior to their Drive Shows, Thando Thabethe & Nick Hamman. In May 2020, Msizi James and Stephanie Be paired up to present
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#17328528107261440-399: A post-grunge and hardcore on their breakthrough albums Word Gets Around (1997) and Performance and Cocktails (1999), before moving into more melodic territory with Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) and subsequent albums. Feeder , who were initially more influenced by American post-grunge, producing a hard rock sound that led to their breakthrough single " Buck Rogers " and
1560-560: A result, the term "alternative" lost its original counter-cultural meaning and began to refer to the new, commercially lighter form of music that was now achieving mainstream success. New York magazine writer Carl Swanson argued that even the term "sellout" lost its meaning as grunge made it possible for a niche movement, no matter how radical, to be co-opted by the mainstream, cementing the formation of an individualist, fragmented culture. In his book Popular Music: The Key Concepts , media academic Roy Shuker states that "Grunge represented
1680-663: A single from their third studio album Stardust Galaxies , was featured on MTV Europe . In 2009, the band performed at the Midem Talent Showcase in Cannes, France , where they met American band Blue October . This encounter led to an invitation for the Parlotones to open for Blue October during their Approaching Normal album's Pick Up the Phone Tour. This successful partnership resulted in several subsequent headlining US tours for
1800-460: A small but loyal fanbase. John Boyd introduced the band to Andrew Lester, lead singer of 57 , who had built his own home studio and produced his band's debut album. The band agreed to record a full-length album with Andrew for R 12,000 (equivalent to $ 2,705 in 2023), pooling their resources to cover the cost when their record label could not. After a month, they released Episoda , which received praise from fellow bands and fans. Initially,
1920-513: A style and more a categorization, it describes an early 1990s trend of acts who followed in the traditions of early electronic music (composers of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ), krautrock and synth-pop . Progenitors of the genre were English bands Disco Inferno , Stereolab , and Space . Most musicians in the genre can be found on independent labels like Warp , Morr Music , Sub Pop or Ghostly International . Space rock took
2040-686: A style indebted to '60s-70s bands like the Velvet Underground and the Ramones , the band's intention musically was to sound like "a band from the past that took a time trip into the future to make their record." The album peaked at number thirty-three in the United States, staying in the charts for two additional years and debuted at number two on the UK albums chart . When the Strokes made their commercial debut,
2160-638: Is Our Story." In September 2012, the band announced their official move to Los Angeles, California . They relocated to the US in January 2013, playing two sold-out farewell shows at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and Ellis Park Stadium before their departure. Their first performance after the move was at The Viper Room in Los Angeles. The Parlotones continued to tour the US, achieving success with radio and music supervisors. In 2014, The Parlotones participated in
2280-612: Is hosted by Karabo Ntshweng from 19:00 - 22:00 Monday to Thursday. This is a fresh show with genre-specific charts each day highlighting the best local indie, pop, hip hop and dance songs. The late-night show, 5 After Hours is hosted by Leah Jazz, which offers risqué-themed content every night. Before 2019, the Weekend Breakfast show, A Cuppa JT was hosted by Justin Toerien, with Nadia Romanos & Jude van Wyk on News & Sports respectively. In April 2019, Nicole da Silva took over
2400-482: Is noted for having a relatively high proportion of female artists compared with preceding rock genres, a tendency exemplified by the development of the feminist-informed riot grrrl music of acts like Bikini Kill , Bratmobile , 7 Year Bitch , Team Dresch and Huggy Bear . However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie pinpoints
2520-546: The Billboard 200 chart, becoming the band's highest-charting album in the United States. In August 2017, AM was certified platinum by the RIAA for combined sales and album-equivalent units over of a million units in the United States. As of the 14th of April 2023 every track from the album was certified silver or higher by the BPI with "Mad Sounds" being the last to be certified. When
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#17328528107262640-713: The Mid Mornings on 5 show during the brunchtime slot. Upon James’ departure for Johannesburg-based rival station 947 , Stephanie hosts the brunchtime show alone. Rob Forbes and Fix Moeti hosted the Forbes&;Fix show during the lunchtime slot, with Kim Schulze on news. In 2021, they left radio, and the lunchtime show was taken over by Zanele Potelwa, with Yanga Mjoli on News. Until 2014, DJ Fresh hosted "The Fresh Drive" alongside Catherine Grenfell, Poppy Ntshongwana, Duran Collett & Carmen Reddy. They were replaced by Roger Goode, Ms Cosmo , Sureshnie Rieder and Sias du Plessis, who
2760-486: The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), South Africa's public broadcaster. 5FM follows a Top 40 music format aimed at a youth market, together with news and sports coverage. Originally named Radio 5 , the station was re-branded as "5FM" in 1992, and has as its current logo a red "5" and superscripted "FM" within a circle and the words "The Power of" inscribed along the upper periphery of
2880-497: The psychedelic rock , ambient music influence of Pink Floyd and Hawkwind and incorporated them into an indie rock context. The style began with Spacemen 3 in the 1980s, with later groups including Spiritualized , Flying Saucer Attack , Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Quickspace . As Britpop waned towards the end of the decade, post-Britpop took hold within the UK's indie rock scene. From about 1997, as dissatisfaction grew with
3000-473: The " slacker " stereotype, and as a defining anthem of 90s indie rock. With the rise of Britpop , many of Britain's earlier indie rock bands fell into obscurity. Fronted by Blur , Oasis , Pulp and Suede , the bands in the movement were advertised as being underground artists, as a means to compete commercially with the United States' grunge scene. While Britpop was stylistically indebted to indie rock and began as an offshoot of it, Britpop bands abandoned
3120-448: The "Rock Professor". FM stereo was introduced nationally, and broadcasts extended to 24/7. The Chuckle and Chat, a live phone-in show interspersed with music, was introduced as the first talk show on a South African music station, presented by David Blood and Tony Sanderson. It became the most popular programme with listenership peaking at around 1 million nightly. Russell made the presenters responsible for their own success or failure with
3240-412: The 1975 's merger of indie rock and mainstream pop began gaining commercial attraction in the early 2010s, it was controversial; they received the award for "Worst Band" at the 2014 NME Awards , but by 2017 received "Best Live Band" at the same award show. Alternative Press writer Yasmine Summan stated that "If you could summarize 2013 and 2014 in one album for indie and alternative fans, it would be
3360-519: The 1975's self-titled release ". In an article for the Guardian accrediting the 1975 as the band to "usher indie into the mainstream", writer Mark Beaumont compared vocalist Matty Healy's influence on the genre to that of Libertines vocalist Pete Doherty , and Pitchfork listed them as one of the most influential artists in music since 1995. In the 1975's wake, a number of other indie pop artist gained popularity. Some critics termed this phenomenon "Healywave", which notably included: Pale Waves ,
3480-585: The 1980s closed, both Sonic Youth and the Pixies signed to major labels. In the late 1980s, the indie rock subgenre shoegaze emerged, as a continuation of the wall of sound production being used by groups like the Jesus and Mary Chain. The genre merged this with influences from Dinosaur Jr. and the Cocteau Twins , to create a dark and droning style so cacophonous that instruments were often indistinguishable. The genre
3600-510: The 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills , Sneaky Feelings , Tall Dwarfs , the Clean and the Verlaines , and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. . The genre solidified itself during
3720-554: The 2010s Arcade Fire 's The Suburbs (2010), the Black Keys's Turn Blue (2014), Kings of Leon's Walls (2016), the Killers's Wonderful Wonderful (2017), which reached number one on the Billboard charts in the United States and the official chart in the United Kingdom, with Arcade Fire's album winning a Grammy for Album of The Year in 2011. Other indie rock acts like Florence and
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3840-453: The Aces , Joan , Fickle Friends and No Rome . Of this group, Pale Waves were particularly commercially prominent, with their debut album My Mind Makes Noises peaking at number eight on the UK albums chart, Who Am I? (2021) at number three and Unwanted (2022) at number four. At around the same time Wolf Alice became a prominent force in the scene, with their second album Visions of
3960-837: The Apples in Stereo , Beulah , Circulatory System , Elf Power , the Minders , Neutral Milk Hotel , of Montreal and the Olivia Tremor Control – merged indie rock with psychedelic pop . Gimme Indie Rock author Andrew Earles stated that the collective, namely Neutral Milk Hotel on On Avery Island (1996), "helped keep the genre artistically relevant while other bands defected and other underground styles rose to prominence". Indie electronic or indietronica covers rock-based artists who share an affinity for electronic music, using samplers, synthesizers, drum machines, and computer programs. Less
4080-639: The Clash , the Kinks , the Smiths and the Jam , the band's style of tinny, high register, sometimes acoustic, guitar parts topped by lyrics of British parochial pleasures in the vocalists' authentic English accents became widely imitated. The Fratellis , the Kooks , and the View were three such acts to gain significant commercial success, although the most prominent post-Libertines band
4200-612: The Cribs , Bloc Party , Kaiser Chiefs and the Others . However, the Libertines , who formed in 1997, stood as the UK's counterpoint to the Strokes, being described by AllMusic as "one of the U.K.'s most influential 21st century acts" and the Independent stating that "the Libertines wanted to be an important band, but they could not have predicted the impact they would have". Influenced by
4320-568: The DoubleHappys and Straitjacket Fits . Knox later formed another short-lived punk band called Toy Love , and after it broke up, he went on to start the influential band Tall Dwarfs , who were an integral influence on the emergence of home-recorded lo-fi indie . The punk-inspired aspects of the scene were often inspired by opposition to Robert Muldoon and his government, which prompted satire or outright criticism. The scene saw bands take influence from punk rock, but strip away its aggression for
4440-628: The Fall , Buzzcocks , Wire , Television and Joy Division would be influential to the genre. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of "varying musical approaches [not] compatible with mainstream tastes". Linked by an ethos more than a musical approach, the indie rock movement encompassed a wide range of styles, from hard-edged, grunge-influenced bands, through do-it-yourself experimental bands like Pavement , to punk-folk singers such as Ani DiFranco . In his book DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures , Brent Luvaas described
4560-447: The Floor", was released, named after their single from the album Stardust Galaxies . The wine is a blend of Chenin blanc (60%), Gewürztraminer (15%), Chardonnay (20%,) and Viognier (5%). On 5 October 2010 a rosé called "We Call This Dancing" was released, named after the song from Stardust Galaxies . The wine is a blend of Wellington Pinotage (55%), Wellington Shiraz (25%), and
4680-481: The Head (2002) went multi-platinum , establishing them as one of the most popular acts in the world by the time of their third album X&Y (2005). Snow Patrol's " Chasing Cars " (from their 2006 album Eyes Open ) is the most widely played song of the 21st century on UK radio. The mainstream attention which indie rock garnered in the 2000s began with the Strokes and their 2001 debut album Is This It . Playing
4800-581: The Hunters Club and Scum Pups . In the early 1990s, the Seattle grunge scene, and its most visible acts, Nirvana , Pearl Jam , Soundgarden and Alice in Chains , broke into the mainstream. The monumental success of these bands, particularly Nirvana, brought increased attention to the indie rock scene, which initiated a shift in which the indie rock descriptor became displaced by the term alternative rock . As
4920-741: The Machine , the Decemberists and LCD Soundsystem gained number one singles in the United States during the decade, with Vampire Weekend , Florence and the Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver , the Killers and the Postal Service gaining platinum selling records. Vampire Weekend's third studio album Modern Vampires of the City (2013) received the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2014, with Consequence writer Tyler Clark stating that in 2019 it
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5040-532: The Parlotones. The Parlotones participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration concert , performing alongside artists such as the Black Eyed Peas , Alicia Keys , and Shakira . They also recorded a song titled " Stardust Galaxies " with Zolani Mahola , lead singer of Freshlyground . The band produced an original rock theatre production, Dragonflies and Astronauts , which was broadcast live in 3D via DIRECTV and in 2D on Facebook. The 3D broadcast
5160-544: The Promise Ring and Cap'n Jazz distanced emo from its hardcore roots and allowed the genre to develop a much more realised scene than its first wave. This style of emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s, with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World 's Bleed American (2001) and Dashboard Confessional 's The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2001). One particularly notable scene during this wave
5280-482: The Replacements releasing albums on majors in the middle of the decade. While these albums did not see the same success as R.E.M., and major labels soon lost interest in the scene, they did have a large impact on younger bands. In the following years, Sonic Youth , Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest began to release music on independent labels indebted to these bands, and soon too picked up the categorisation of indie rock. As
5400-694: The Smiths. The Madchester movement burgeoned by 1989, with the success of the Happy Mondays second album Bummed and the Stone Roses ' self-titled debut , which became the most influential work in the scene. In the following years, addition high profile acts included the Charlatans , 808 State and the Inspiral Carpets . The Madchester scene's distinct combination of indie rock and dance music became termed indie dance by critics, or more specifically
5520-560: The Sunset Sessions and SXSW industry festivals. They later toured Europe before returning to South Africa. After a 12-year partnership with Sovereign Entertainment, the band announced their departure from their record label and South African manager on 10 July 2014. Unfortunately, later that year, all touring was postponed due to lead singer Kahn Morbee's vocal cord complications, which required surgery. The band resumed touring in 2015, promoting their new album Antiques & Artifacts with
5640-560: The Top 40; however many bands in its twenty-two track runtime also fell into obscurity. In the United States, the popularity of R.E.M. allowed those disliking of hardcore punk 's aggression to become a part of the underground music scene. This empowered an array of musicians, particularly those in what would become the post-hardcore scene as led by the Minutemen . Furthermore, major labels began to pursue underground bands, with both Hüsker Dü and
5760-507: The Transkei. Radio 702 changed its music format to a Top 40 format, on the advice of an American consultant, Bob Hennaberry, and head hunted the former Radio LM presenter John Berks from Radio 5. Within a year 702 claimed nearly a million listeners from the PWV area (now Gauteng ) while the nationwide Radio 5 had less than 150,000. Malcolm Russell, a former Rhodesian TV and radio host, who hosted host
5880-592: The UK with their first five albums. As of June 2019, AM has spent 300 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart . The album also peaked at number one in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Portugal, and reached top ten positions in several other countries. In the United States, the album sold 42,000 copies in its first week, and debuted at number six on
6000-415: The US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award), Bright Eyes (who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie (whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination). This new commercial breakthrough and the widespread use of
6120-519: The US, and the Smiths , from the UK, who Matthew Bannister states were the earliest indie rock groups. These bands' influence was showcased quickly seen in the formation of Let's Active , the Housemartins and the La's . By this time, the term "indie rock" had begun to be used to describe the bands who produced music on independent record labels, rather than simply the record labels themselves. This made it
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#17328528107266240-530: The United Kingdom, NME released the C86 compilation cassette, which consisted of tracks by groups including Primal Scream , the Pastels and the Wedding Present . Intended to showcase the UK's current independent music scene, the album was made up of groups combining elements of jangle pop, post-punk and Phil Spector indebted Walls of Sound . In 2006, Bob Stanley called it "the beginning of indie music". C86 became
6360-679: The White Stripes , the Vines , and the Hives . These groups were christened by parts of the media as the "The" bands, and dubbed "the saviours of rock 'n' roll", prompting Rolling Stone magazine to declare on its September 2002 cover, "Rock is Back!" The success of the Strokes revitalised the then-dying underground post-Britpop scene in the United Kingdom with groups who took the band's influence and experimented with their sound. This first wave of UK acts included Franz Ferdinand , Kasabian , Maxïmo Park ,
6480-561: The Wonder Stuff and Ned's Atomic Dustbin , "grebo" was broadly defined, and was used more as a name for the Stourbridge scene than as a genre label. However, the bands quickly gained attention: Pop Will Eat Itself's 1989 singles " Wise Up! Sucker " and " Can U Dig It? " both entered the UK Top 40 and Stourbridge briefly became a tourist attraction for young indie rock fans. The seminal albums from
6600-401: The Word magazine. A 2020 Vice article cited Johnny Borrell , vocalist of Razorlight , as the "one man who defined, embodied and lived Landfill Indie" due his forming of a "spectacularly middle-of-the-road" band despite his close proximity to the Libertines' "desperate kinetic energy, mythologised love-hate dynamic and vision of a dilapidated Britain animated by romance and narcotics". In
6720-404: The album Echo Park (2001). After the death of their drummer Jon Lee , they moved to a more reflective and introspective mode on Comfort in Sound (2002), their most commercially successful album to that point, which spawned a series of hit singles. The most commercially successful band in the millennium were Coldplay , whose first two albums Parachutes (2000) and A Rush of Blood to
6840-514: The album did not appeal to national radio stations like 5FM due to its perceived lack of commercial potential and "definitely too weird for mainstream radio" sound, as Paul explained. However, university radio stations embraced the album, giving it high rotation and featuring it as a regular top download on local music websites. Regional stations like Highveld and East Coast Radio added the song " Long Way Home " to their playlists, turning it into an instant crowd-pleaser. This moderate success led to
6960-522: The album won the "Best Rock Album" award at the 2006 South African Music Awards. The ballad "Beautiful" was featured in an Irish Fujifilm TV commercial, leading to a European license deal with Universal Music . The album achieved Gold status in 2007. Their next album, A World Next Door to Yours , released in September 2007, became the best-selling South African rock album of the decade. The band signed with Universal Music. The Parlotones served as spokespeople for both Live Earth and Earth Hour , joining
7080-522: The band apply A Clockwork Orange -inspired teardrops using mascara. Kahn later spoke about his desire for a "trademark," citing influences like " Robert Smith 's lipstick [and] Morrissey 's quiff." The mascara teardrops would become a signature element of the band's appearance during this time. The Parlotones' second album, Radiocontrolledrobot , released in July 2005 through Sovereign Entertainment, brought them mainstream success. Produced by Dave Birch at Tropical Sweat Studios in Durban, South Africa ,
7200-433: The band boasts ten studio albums and multi-platinum success. They have received nine South African Music Awards and, in 2009, made history as the first South African band to headline at the Coca-Cola Dome . The Parlotones actively support various philanthropic initiatives, including The Little Wing Music Foundation, the Anene Booysen Foundation, and the Africa-Unite campaign. The Parlotones originated in Johannesburg during
7320-470: The band performing at regional music festivals and making guest appearances on television shows such as Jip and Good Morning Live . During this period, John Boyd decided to retire from music and pursue a career in marketing. The Parlotones went on to record and release a second EP, Borderline Patrol , in late 2004. The EP gained favorable reception from national radio stations, with their first hit single " Beautiful " charting successfully on 5FM . This
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#17328528107267440-461: The band was introduced to radio programmers, music supervisors, and other industry executives at Michele Clark's Sunset Sessions event in San Diego, CA. They also showcased at the South by Southwest festival in March 2012, leading to their song "Honey" charting on the Triple-A radio format. The Parlotones participated in the Sunset Sessions Rock event in June 2012, and Michele Clark subsequently became their US manager, featuring in their movie "This
7560-410: The band's excitement to perform the songs live once it was safe to do so. On 16 September 2009, The Parlotones together with Hands on Wine released a red wine , "Giant Mistake", named after their single from the album A World Next Door to Yours . The wine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (54%), Shiraz (23%), Pinotage (12%), and Cabernet Franc (11%). In April 2010 a white wine , "Push Me to
7680-403: The band, contributing synth elements and serving as the on-stage engineer during live shows. Around this time, the band signed with Raphael Domalik's record label, Sovereign Entertainment, prompting them to adopt a more mature name. They settled on The Parlotones, a variation of Parlophone Records , the label that signed influential bands such as Radiohead , Travis , and Jeff Buckley . "We had
7800-435: The bands they host have attempted to retain their autonomy, leaving them free to explore sounds, emotions and subjects of limited appeal to large, mainstream audiences. The influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk , psychedelia , post-punk and country . The lo-fi , experimental and art rock sound of the Velvet Underground as well as late '70s punk and post-punk bands such as
7920-467: The campus library for playing guitar. The next day, Morbee invited Paul to join the band. At the time, Paul's younger brother, Glen Hodgson, was still in high school but was asked to join as a bassist. Their early sound drew inspiration from The Smiths , The Cure , and R.E.M. , with Kahn describing their initial sound as "punkish and squeaky". They chose the punk -influenced band name "Crayon". In July 2002, well-known underground musician John Boyd joined
8040-430: The categories of Best Rock Album and Best Duo or Group of the Year . On 11 December 2020, The Parlotones released a Christmas album titled Strike the Harp . It features 10 tracks, including original songs and classic holiday covers. It was produced by Theo Crous and recorded at Bellville Studios in Cape Town. The album received positive reviews, with critics praising the band's unique take on classic Christmas songs and
8160-639: The circle. The station is currently managed by Masixole Mdingane,Business Unit Manager of the PCS Combo ( Good Hope FM & 5FM). with Thabo Baloyi (news), Xoli Zondo (sport) and Marli van Eeden (traffic). Lula odiba with Nadia Romanos (news) with Nick Archibald(co-host &traffic), Jude van Wyk (sport) and Yanga mjoli(news). (Mon - Thurs) 6pm - 10pm (Friday) (Mon - Thurs) (Mon - Thurs) (Friday) with Aaron Masemola & Palesa Lemeke Harrison mkhize with Karabo Hobo (news) with Aaron Masemola & Palesa Lemeke with Karabo Hobo (news) Formerly known as "Radio 5",
8280-402: The coining of the term "indie" to the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester punk rock band the Buzzcocks , on their Ind ependent record label New Hormones . This inspired a DIY punk movement where bands like Swell Maps , 'O' Level , Television Personalities and Desperate Bicycles followed suit in pressing and distributing their own records. Distribution
8400-700: The concept of Cool Britannia and Britpop as a movement began to dissolve, emerging bands began to avoid the Britpop label while still producing music derived from it. After the decline of Britpop they began to gain more critical and popular attention. The Verve 's album Urban Hymns (1997) was a worldwide hit and their commercial peak before they broke up in 1999, while Radiohead – although having achieved moderate recognition with The Bends in 1995 – achieved near-universal critical acclaim with their experimental third album OK Computer (1997), and its follow-ups Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001). Stereophonics , used elements of
8520-426: The covers of magazines like NME and Melody Maker . Grebo bands were distinct from prior indie rock groups not only because of their broad influences, but their subversion of the twee or unhappy moods of most other bands in the genre, and their pursuit of a heavier sound and aesthetic. The scene came to include the stylistically similar bands of nearby Leicester: the Bomb Party , Gaye Bykers on Acid , Crazyhead ,
8640-515: The development of indie rock's sound. According to Audioculture , one of the earliest Dunedin Sound band was Chris Knox 's band the Enemy , which emerged as a post-punk group, whose members also included Alec Bathgate . Although the group was only around for a short time, their shows impressed the teenage musicians that came to see them, including a young Shayne Carter , who went on to form Bored Games ,
8760-445: The distinctive 'protest' element of British-based independent music" Music journalist John Harris has suggested that Britpop began when Blur's fourth single " Popscene " and Suede's debut " The Drowners " were released around the same time in the spring of 1992. He stated, "[I]f Britpop started anywhere, it was the deluge of acclaim that greeted Suede's first records: all of them audacious, successful and very, very British." Suede were
8880-635: The dominant sound was a style of indie rock that was heavily indebted to punk and Nirvana's album Bleach album, while also occasionally making use of drum machines . Gigwise writer Steven Kline described the style as "filthy guitars, filthier hair and t-shirts only a mother would wash". Prominent fraggle acts included Senseless Things , Mega City Four and Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine . Spin writer Charles Aaron described Pavement and Guided by Voices as "the two bands that came to exemplify indie rock in this period, and still define
9000-643: The first UK punk single " New Rose " by the Damned In Australia , the Saints had their first punk release outside the US, " (I'm) Stranded ," on their own "Fatal Records" label. This was followed by the Go-Betweens releasing ' Lee Remick ' a few months later. Dunedin produced the independent record label Flying Nun Records , whose artists defined the Dunedin sound , which would be particularly influential on
9120-551: The first live show starting at 05:00 on 13 October 1975 from SABC Broadcast House in Commissioner Street. Radio 5 broadcast in the medium wave band from transmitters at Welgedacht , Maraisburg , Pietersburg , Durban , Bloemfontein , Brackenfell , Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown . Broadcasting was later moved to the basement of the Broadcast Centre, Auckland Park in Johannesburg. The name Radio 5 indicated that it
9240-446: The first of the new crop of guitar-orientated bands to be embraced by the UK music media as Britain's answer to Seattle's grunge sound. Their debut album Suede for the fastest-selling debut album in the UK. Sunny Day Real Estate 's debut album, Diary (1994), began a new wave of the emo genre, by incorporating elements of it into their indie rock sound. Sunny Day Real Estate and other second wave emo bands, including Piebald ,
9360-487: The following years the Jesus and Mary Chain and Flying Nun Records bands like the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience morphed the genre into a slower, darker and more hypnotic style. The number of college radio stations in the US decreased significantly following NPR 's lobbying against noncommercial station during the 1980s. In turn, the name "college rock" fell into disfavour, soon being replaced by "indie". In
9480-420: The genre and saw record labels use their independent status as a marketing tactic. This led to a split within indie rock: one side conforming to mainstream radio; the other becoming increasingly experimental. By this point, "indie rock" referred to the musical style rather than ties to the independent music scene. In the 2000s, indie rock reentered the mainstream through the garage rock and post-punk revival and
9600-517: The genre as rooted in nostalgia, citing the influence of garage rock and psychedelic rock of the 1960s in progenitors the Stone Roses and the Smiths , in addition to a lyrical preoccupation with literature. In this same vein, Matthew Bannister defined indie rock as "small groups of white men playing guitars, influenced by punks and 1960s white pop/rock, within a broader discourse and practice of (degrees of) independence from mainstream musical values." According to anthropologist Wendy Fonarow ,
9720-497: The genre's earlier anti-establishment politics and instead brought it into the mainstream, with bands like Blur and Pulp even signing to major labels. In her essay Labouring the Point? The Politics of Britain in "New Britain" , politician and academic Rupa Huq states that Britpop "began as an offshoot of the independent British music scene but arguably ended up killing it, as a convergence took place between indie and mainstream, removing
9840-472: The genre, with Bandcamp Daily writer Robert Rubsam, calling them the "fountainhead for all that would come". The first wave of bands in the genre included Red House Painters , Codeine , Bedhead , Ida and Low . The genre originated from around the United States, with no geographic focus, and very little interaction between its artists. A younger subset of grebo bands emerged around 1991, who were in turn labelled "fraggle" bands. During this movement,
9960-420: The growing popularity of college radio stations, primarily in the United States, who would play independent artists of various genres, including alternative rock , new wave , post-hardcore and post-punk . The bands broadcast on these station became dubbed " college rock " by fans, another term which lacked any stylistic implication. The most prominent college rock bands were jangle pop groups R.E.M. , from
10080-580: The influence of the Strokes and the Libertines . This success was exacerbated in the middle of the decade by Bloc Party , the Arctic Monkeys and the Killers and indie rock proliferated into the landfill indie movement. The term indie rock, which comes from "independent", describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved. Although distribution deals are often struck with major corporate companies, these labels and
10200-552: The last 13 years, including a 35-week run peaking at number 49 in 2016–2017. Furthermore, it was the UK's most streamed pre-2010 song, until it was surpassed in late 2018, and continued to be purchased for download hundreds of times a week by 2017. In March 2018, the song reached the milestone of staying in the Top 100 of the UK Singles Chart for 200 weeks. The impact of the Strokes, the Libertines and Bloc Party led to significant major label interest in indie rock artists, which
10320-672: The late 1980s. Defined by its merger of C86 indie rock, dance music and Hedonist rave culture, particularly its emphasis on the use of psychedelic drugs, the scene was centred in Manchester . The scene was based around the Haçienda nightclub, which opened in May 1982 as an initiative of Factory Records . For the first few years of its life, the club played predominantly club-oriented pop music and hosted performances by artists including New Order , Cabaret Voltaire , Culture Club , Thompson Twins and
10440-516: The likes of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu , Prince Charles , and Rihanna . They released their third album, Stardust Galaxies , in October 2009, which also enjoyed commercial success. The album featured the singles "Life Design" and "Push Me to the Floor," which gained significant airplay on South African radio stations. The Parlotones gained traction in Europe when their music video for "Life Design,"
10560-495: The mainstreaming of the North American indie rock ethic and style of the 1980s", going on to explain that a band's status as independent became "As much a marketing device as [indie rock and alternative rock were an] identifiable 'sound'". In the wake of this increased attention, indie rock experienced a split: accessible bands who catered to the now-popular alternative rock radio; and bands who continued to experiment, advancing in
10680-437: The mid–1980s with NME ' s C86 cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth , Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest in the United States. During the decade, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore , Midwest emo , slacker rock and space rock began. By this time, "indie" had evolved to refer to bands whose music
10800-546: The new Radio 5 Breakfast Show, was appointed Programme Director and initiated a mandate to improve the station, with the support of Riaan Eksteen who became Director General of the SABC in 1984. English became the primary broadcast language and commercial scheduling was overhauled to be less intrusive. Presenters were re-engaged on an annual freelance contract with shows named for and designed by them. New evening shows were launched to compete with television one of them being Chris Prior -
10920-463: The only genre at the time which was defined by the methods by which the music was distributed rather than the sound of said music. Journalist Steve Taylor also cited the bands involved in the Paisley Underground scene as early indie groups. However, this jangly style became increasingly mainstream as the decade progressed leading subsequent indie rock bands to abandon this style. Instead, in
11040-616: The production team featuring Damon Kalvari (Assistant to the Producer), and Thabo Modisane (Executive Producer). The show ended in 2014 when Cliff began an online radio platform, to which all of his team, save DuPlessis & Modisane, followed him. Following Cliff's departure in 2014, DJ Fresh took over the morning show, having hosted the drive-time show since 2003. He was joined by Carmen Reddy on News, Duran Collett on Sports News, Sol Phenduka (and later Nonala Tose) on Traffic. On 31 March 2017, Fresh left 5FM for sister station, Metro FM . He
11160-555: The promise that, when their year's contract expired, they would be free to renegotiate based on the audience the shows delivered. However, Russell remained on salary and sought to negotiate the same performance-based contract for himself. Senior management rejected the proposal and Russell resigned to begin his own company, the Broadcast Development Group, and was later contracted to assist Radio 702 with its repositioning and transition to 702 Talk Radio. The Mark Gillman show
11280-524: The public perception of "rock music" was based in post-grunge , nu metal and rap rock , putting their throwback style of garage rock as a stark contrast to the mainstream. The band's immediate influence allowed fellow classic rock influenced New York bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Interpol and TV on the Radio to gain mainstream attention. The Strokes were accompanied in this commercial breakthrough by
11400-472: The quality of their original tracks. The lead single, "A Parlotones Christmas", was well received by fans and received significant airplay on South African radio stations during the holiday season. In an interview with Jacaranda FM, Kahn Morbee stated that the album was inspired by the band's desire to spread joy during a difficult year. He also discussed the challenges of recording during the COVID-19 pandemic and
11520-457: The reins of the weekend morning slot, naming the show 5FM Xtra Loud Mornings . She is joined by Sibaphiwe Matiyela on News and Duran Collett on Sports. As of May 2022 KwaZulu-Natal born Minnie Ntuli from East Coast Radio joined the national youth radio station to anchor with Monique De Villiers on News and Aaron Masemola on Sports. A 2023-line up change saw Retshepile Seakamela take over the reins of 5Weekend Breakfast , retaining Aaron Masemola on
11640-578: The scene were released between 1989 and 1993: the Wonder Stuff's Hup and Never Loved Elvis ; Ned's Atomic Dustbin's God Fodder and Are You Normal? ; and Pop Will Eat Itself's This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! and The Looks or the Lifestyle? . In this period, the scene's bands became fixtures, sometimes headliners, at Reading Festival , sold millions of albums and were frequently featured on
11760-406: The show alongside newsreader Karabo Hobo, while the weekend night offering is covered by Harrison Mkhize. Until 2021, 5FM had round-the-clock broadcasting. The station is now automated with music between 01:00 and 04:00 daily. The only early morning programming exists with the station's Early Breakfast shows, hosted by Monique de Villiers between Monday and Friday between 04:00 and 06:00, and with
11880-458: The sports desk and introducing Palesa Lemeke as a Newsreader. Weekend music shows are hosted by the 5FM 'Weekender5', a collective of specialist music show hosts including Kid Fonque, Das kapital and Kyle Cassim among others. Nick Archibald anchors the 5FM Top 40 Chart show every Saturday. Jodelle Tantij hosts 5 Takeover show on Sundays. The rest of the weekend show offering is made up of the afternoon slot, anchored by Boipelo Mooketsi, who hosts
12000-470: The station developed from a commercial station, LM Radio , which had been broadcasting to a South African youth audience from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo ) in neighbouring Mozambique . When LM Radio was shut down by the incoming Frelimo government after Mozambique gained its independence, the South African government instructed the SABC to take over the staff and the service. The station was renamed Radio 5, and former LM Radio presenter Nick Megans presented
12120-466: The subgenre baggy . Madchester and baggy's most infamous moment was the 27 May 1990 Spike Island concert headlined by the Stone Roses. With an attendance of around 28,000 and lasting twelve hours, it was the first event of its size and kind to be hosted by an independent act. In Stourbridge , a scene of indie bands who took influence from electronic , punk, folk and hip-hop music emerged, dubbed grebo by critics. Fronted by Pop Will Eat Itself ,
12240-526: The summer of 1998 when Kahn Morbee (born Dingaan) failed to form a band in high school. He later enrolled at the University of Johannesburg , where he met Neil Pauw, who had attended the same high school in Roodepoort. After recognizing their shared musical vision upon hearing Morbee's original songs, the duo decided to form a band. Morbee subsequently met Paul Hodgson at university after they were both removed from
12360-526: The term in many people's minds". Both bands made use of a Lo-fi production style which romanticised their D.I.Y. ethos. Pavement's 1992 album Slanted and Enchanted , was one of the defining albums of the slacker rock subgenre. Rolling Stone called the album "the quintessential indie rock album", placing it on the magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time . In the North Carolina Research Triangle , an indie rock scene
12480-661: The term indie to other forms of popular culture, led a number of commentators to suggest that indie rock had ceased to be a meaningful term. Additionally, a second wave of bands emerged in the United States that managed to gain international recognition as a result of the movement included the Black Keys , Kings of Leon , the Shins , the Bravery , Spoon , the Hold Steady , and the National . The most commercially successful band of this wave
12600-559: The underground. According to AllMusic , it was during this split that "indie rock" solidified itself as a term for the style of music played by these underground artists, while the mainstream indie rock-influenced bands became termed alternative rock. Slowcore developed in the United States as a direct counterpoint to the rapid growth of grunge. Although loosely defined, slowcore generally includes slow tempos, minimalist instrumentals and sad lyrics. Galaxie 500 , particularly their second album On Fire (1989), were heavy influences on
12720-459: Was Las Vegas' the Killers . Formed in 2001, after hearing Is This It , the band scrapped the majority of their prior material to rewrite it under the Strokes' influence. The band's debut single " Mr. Brightside " spent 260 non-consecutive weeks, or five years, on the UK Singles Chart as of April 2021, the most out of any song, and As of 2017 , it had charted on the UK Singles Chart in 11 of
12840-594: Was Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys . One of the earliest groups to owe their initial commercial success to the use of Internet social networking , the Arctic Monkeys had two No. 1 singles, and their album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) became the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history. In this success, legacy indie bands soon entered the mainstream, including Modest Mouse (whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached
12960-446: Was being spearheaded by groups enfranched Merge Records like Superchunk , Archers of Loaf and Polvo . describing a growing scene of indie-rock bands who were influenced by hardcore punk and post-punk. At the time, publications such as Entertainment Weekly took to calling the college town of Chapel Hill the "next Seattle". Superchunk's single " Slack Motherfucker " has also been credited by Columbia magazine with popularizing
13080-403: Was closely followed by their second single " Here Comes a Man ", a Boom Boom Room cover, which entered the Top 20. In April 2005, at a celebration for Cosmopolitan South Africa's twenty-one years of publishing, The Parlotones were invited to perform alongside eight other bands. In an effort to "stand out and be remembered" and to align with the party theme "vintage glam," Kahn suggested that
13200-457: Was further improved with the establishment of 'The Cartel', an association of companies like Red Rhino and Rough Trade Records who would take the releases from these small labels and get them into record shops nationwide. Independent record labels would also be integral to the early years of punk rock musical distribution, as seen with Beserkley Records in the US, who put out The Modern Lovers debut album, and Stiff Records who released
13320-571: Was hosted by Mark Gillman and supported by Kevin Fine and Reuben Goldberg, Catherine Strydom (Grenfell) and stuntman "DangerBoy". Gillman was known for his loud personality and his slogan "I Love it in the Mornings". After a brief stint as the host of the drive-time show, Gareth Cliff replaced Gillman as 5fm's Breakfast Show host. With Cliff as the host, the show was supported by Leigh-Ann Mol on News, Mabale Moloi on traffic & Sias DuPlessis on Sport, with
13440-661: Was later replaced by Robbie Kruse. In 2017, Thando Thabethe became the station's first woman to host the Drive Time show. "The Thabooty Drive" featured Durbanite Msizi James as the co-host, Sibaphiwe Matiyela (and later, Nadia Romanos) on News and Duran Collett on Sports. In May 2020, Nick Hamman , who had previously hosted the Hamman Time show during the mid-morning slot, took over as the host of 5Drive with producer Mad Money Mike, Nadia Romanos on news, Yonaka Theledi on traffic and Jude van Wyk on sports. The evening show, 5Nights
13560-581: Was pioneered by My Bloody Valentine on their early EPs and debut album Isn't Anything . The band's style influenced a wave of bands in London and the Thames Valley area including Chapterhouse , Moose and Lush . This scene was collectively termed "the Scene That Celebrates Itself" by Melody Maker's Steve Sutherland in 1990. Madchester was another style and scene that originated in
13680-501: Was released on independent record labels, in addition to the record labels themselves. As the decade progressed many individual local scenes developed their own distinct takes on the genre: baggy in Manchester ; grebo in Stourbridge and Leicester ; and shoegaze in London and the Thames Valley . During the 1990s, the mainstream success of grunge and Britpop , two movements influenced by indie rock, brought increased attention to
13800-518: Was replaced by Roger Goode, who hosted the show alongside Robbie Kruse on Sports, Sureshnie Rieder on News and Zanele Potelwa (nicknamed 'Young Boomerang') on traffic. Dan Corder assumed the role of host on the Breakfast Show in April 2021, accompanied by Thabo Baloyi delivering the latest news updates, Xoli Zondo covering sports, and Marli van Eeden providing traffic reports. However, in April 2024, just
13920-448: Was still "an indie rock standard bearer in the wider world of music". Arctic Monkeys' fifth album AM (2013) was one of the biggest indie rock albums of the decade, charting at number one on the UK Albums Chart , having sold 157,329 copies, thus becoming the second fastest-selling album of the year. With the debut of AM on the chart, Arctic Monkeys also broke a record, becoming the first independent-label band to debut at number one in
14040-507: Was the Midwest emo bands of the latter half of the decade, who incorporated the jangly guitar tones of earlier indie rock and elements of math rock to create the distinctive style of groups like American Football . The popularity of emo, also allowed a number of "not-quite-indie-not-quite-emo" bands like Death Cab For Cutie , Modest Mouse and Karate to gain significant attention. The loosely defined Elephant 6 collective – which included
14160-452: Was the SABC's fifth national radio channel at that time, after Radio Suid-Afrika , Radio South Africa , Springbok Radio and Radio Bantu. Initially the government-controlled SABC required Radio 5 to be bilingual with an equal weighting of English and Afrikaans. Music content was strictly controlled and censored. Radio 5 competed with the independent Channel 702 (later renamed to Radio 702) broadcasting from Bophuthatswana and Capital 604 from
14280-544: Was then exacerbated by the success of the Arctic Monkeys. In the years following Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not there was a proliferation of bands such as the Rifles , the Pigeon Detectives and Milburn , who created a more formulaic derivative of the earlier acts. By the end of the decade, critics had taken to referring to this wave of acts as "landfill indie", a description coined by Andrew Harrison of
14400-518: Was well received in the United States, leading to 100 re-airings, while more than half of the worldwide viewership on Facebook came from the US. The production featured songs from the band's catalog, including 16 South African Top 40 hits. Their song "Rock Paper Scissors" was featured on the popular American TV series One Tree Hill . In October 2011, the Parlotones opened for Coldplay during their concerts in Cape Town and Johannesburg. In February 2012,
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