Africa’s premier music business school “Music Business Academy for Africa” has partnered with the music distribution company and a subsidiary of Sony Music “The Orchard” for its “MBA Talent Project”.  Applicants eligible for this open call must be completely unsigned from any record label distribution or managerial deal. Talents must be between the ages of 17-30 years. The MBA Talent project is open to artists...

Empty Pinata – remember LA Rodriguez? – serves up the single "Bonfire," and honestly, the air changes slightly when you play it. It’s less like passively listening and more like discovering a singed diary page fluttering down a quiet street. The music itself is this curious contradiction, wrapping harrowing emotional shrapnel in the comforting gauze of indie-pop, flecked with soft rock warmth. A strangely...