Who Really Deserves a SAMA in 2014?
About this time last year, The Con published an article, “The Con Declares the South African Music Awards Finish and Klaar“. In it we argued that the SAMA awards had become a giant joke that rewards the mediocrity that is the established music industry at the expense of independent artists who have no label […]
Bravely, Confusingly, Nakhane Touré
It was early 2012. An email arrived from some young musician I had never heard of before. I lie. I had heard his name mentioned by a friend. He was Nakhane Touré, or, as his email suggested, Nakhane Mahlakahlaka. But I had never heard him perform live or even heard his music. Attached to that […]