Johannesburg’s BLK JKS are probably somewhere practicing very hard right now for their performance at the World Cup opening ceremonies concert next Thursday. Their new EP, ZOL! (featuring the unofficial World Cup anthem, “ZOL!”,  which is going to steal the show at that ceremony) is streaming below via KCRW. ZOL! is due June 8. (FADER)

ZOL! EP, the follow-up to 2009’s After Robots, is just in time for BLK JKS (black jacks) performance at the 2010 World Cup Kickoff Celebration in their native South Africa June 10. The title track is, appropriately enough, about soccer, and is also the band’s best since the first incarnation of “Lakeside.” “ZOL!” is streaming [...]

BLK JKS debut full length, After Robots, may have been a little too anticipated for its own good, but “Molalatadi” is definitely one of its strong points. Their latest video is a bicontinental barrage of coolness that combines footage of the band in Coney Island and clips from a documentary about train surfing in their [...]

After Robots? Yeah. I’ve been waiting for this album for a year and a half. I’m excited to hear that the Secretly Canadian (Antony and the Johnsons, Danielson) release will happen September 8. Officially. For real. Their newest track, “Mololatladi” is reminding me of The Mars Volta in a lot of ways. According to Fader, [...]

I first wrote about BLK JKS in March, following the band’s Fader cover and performance at SXSW. They have since recorded a 4 track EP with Secret Machines’ Brandon Curtis in NYC. Mystery EP (which is available to order here, as well as download on iTunes) features a re-recording of the song “Lakeside.” The song [...]

BLK JKS, the reggae/rock Johannesburg band that will hopefully put “Lakeside” on their upcoming full length (After Robots) so it can be on my 2008 playlist, recently graced the cover of Fader’s Africa issue and performed a special performance of their song “Molalatladi” for the magazine’s Open Bar series at Heathers in the East Village [...]

Artist: Blk Jks
Track: “Lakeside”
Album: After Robots
The Johannesburg afro-reggae-rock band, Blk Jks, recently rocked the Fader Fort at SXSW, and will be in New York at the New Museum theater tomorrow. Their single, “Lakeside,” was released on limited edition 10″ vinyl in 2007. Their upcoming debut LP, After Robots, will be released sometime later this year. [...]