2014 MAMA nominees for Best Video announced
The nominees for Best Video in the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) have been announced. The winner will be chosen by MTV Base.
How to choose a band photographer
Whether you're a musician, singer, DJ, band member, performer, or have some other significant connection to the music industry, chances are pretty good that at some point you'll find yourself in need of a few professional-looking promo shots.
What the furore? #musicjournalism
A recent review by New York-based Complex magazine critising Iggy Azalea's The New Classic, has ruffled a few feathers in the music scene - most notably, New Zealand's Lorde. Let me give you some context: Lorde took to tumblr to critisise Complex for having Azalea on its cover and then giving her album a bad review.
Music intelligence for sale
Information is changing the music industry; not only in the ways we consume and discover music, but as well in the ways companies are arming themselves for competition.
Voice in your head holding you back?
As up-and-coming artists, most of us are unfortunately bitten with the same parasitical bug called jealousy. By jealousy I do not mean the state of being envious of someone else, but rather, the desire to be like or have something that someone else has.
The secret to Zander Tyler's success
There isn't a pretentious bone in Zander Tyler's body - if there is, the gevaarlike afrikaanse romantiese rapper hides it well. Barging in on his pre-show dinner at the Barnyard in Durbanville, I found off-stage Jack Parow to be just as cool as he is onstage.
High5: In other music news #3
Looking at the past week in music; the death knell tolls louder for the music industry, why we should embrace industry disruptions, the value crisis in recorded music, how artist and label revenue will soon come from advertising, and 2face Idibia tackles the issue of collection societies in Nigeria.
