South Africa: BCUC Shakes Up South African Music

[Afropop] BCUC has to be one of the more unusual bands to emerge from South Africa’s alternative music scene in recent years. Not amapiano or gqom or hip-hop, and certainly no throwback to Soweto jive, “bubblegum” or its post-apartheid offspring kwaito. No, no, no. You might describe them as Afrofuturistic punk, but really, that starts to feel like throwing words at a sound that defies classification. This seven-piece band presents a frenetic boil of energy on stage, as we discovered recently seeing them perform at