Kahn Morbee seeks crowdfunding for SALT
After years of fronting South African pop rock band The Parlotones, Kahn Morbee is now going solo and performing as KAHN. He's just completed writing his debut solo album, SALT and now needs funding for it to be produced and marketed.
2014 SA Hip Hop Awards winners announced
The third annual South African Hip Hop Awards took place at Gold Reef City’s Lyric Theatre on 17 December 2014. The theme for this year was ‘20 years of freedom’.
Do digital
Once you have your recordings it is important that you put them to work for you to help get the name of your musical project out into the public eye. One of the most effective tools that now exists to accomplish this is the digital download.
Dan Patlansky album voted #1 in US
Dan Patlansky is ending 2014 on a high note, with his latest album Dear Silence Thieves being nominated as the number 1 Blues Rock Album in the world released in 2014 by Blues Rock Review USA.
Bryan Little directs new U2 music video
South Africa's Bryan Little has directed the music video for U2's This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now. The music video features Cape Town-based, China-born street artist DALeast, who's made his name internationally by creating animals that feel like they're in motion and are about to leave the walls they're painted on - something that actually happens in the U2 video.
SA artist up for a Grammy
Award-winning South African flutist and composer Wouter Kellerman and renowned Indian composer and producer Ricky Kej have been nominated for the 57th Grammy Awards for their debut collaborative album Winds Of Samsara in the Best New Age Album Of The Year category.
Do's and don'ts of demo recordings
The demo recording is a band’s primary tool of persuasion from a musical point of view. An abbreviation of “demonstration”, a demo is exactly that: it gives a band the chance to strut its stuff.
