The Kora All Africa Music Awards could be good for local music - if we knew how to exploit them, writes Thebe Mabanga Next weekend’s Kora All Africa Music Awards - the sixth of their kind - will, one hopes, be better received than last year. It was an event fraught with logistical problems, gripes [...]
With the initial clamour over whether the urban grooves genres was the right thing for the Zimbabwean music industry almost dying down, it’s time for the individual artists who play urban grooves music to take a look at themselves.
Initially looked upon as music copied from the western countries especially the United States of America, the [...]
UMI, the international division of UMG, has filed a complaint with the Competition Authority of the European Commission (EC) concerning mechanical reproduction rights in Europe.
Across south east Asia, traditional relationships between record companies and music retailers are being transformed, creating new challenges and opportunities for everyone involved.
The contractual and working relationships between artists and record companies are currently undergoing a high-profile scrutiny as lawsuits over contractual disputes continue to eat up time and money in the music business.