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MUMBAI: The Folklore Society of Pakistan (FSP) has selected well-known 'qawal party' Ustad Akhtar Sharif-Sabir (Aroop Waley) from Gujranwala, Javed Bashir Ahmed, the principal singer of Mekal Hasan band and Ustad Shafi Muhammad Faqir, the renowned singer from Cholistan and his group to perform at 'Bhakti Utsav', the annual festival of mystic music being held at Nehru Park from 11 to 13 April 2008.
read moreMUMBAI: Although Apple scored top marks in the 2008 Brandjunkie survey, Apple's popular iPod range didn't make the top three in a poll of 293 MP3 players. According to online consumer review site www.reevoo.com, the MP3 player race was dominated by Sony with the Sony NWE016BC just nudging the Sony NWZA816 into second place. Third was the Hitachi DMP20 2GB, followed by the New Green iPod Nano 8GB in fourth and the Black Samsung YP-P2JCB 8GB in fifth.
read moreMUMBAI: Audiences in North Bengal and Sikkim can now listen to the BBC's infotainment shows on the Siliguri-based Radio Misty 94.3 FM.
read moreMUMBAI: Worldspace Satellite Radio has received an approval from Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's Federal Network Agency to provide German consumers with a subscription-based satellite radio service in automobiles. It authorized World Space to use 12.5 MHz of spectrum in the L-band (1479.5 - 1492 MHz) on a nation-wide basis for the operation of a terrestrial repeater network in Germany.
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MUMBAI: Punekars got their second private radio station with Radio City 91.1 FM making its launch in the city. Radio Mirchi is already operational in Pune. This is Radio City's 18th FM station in India and its seventh station in Maharashtra.
read moreMUMBAI: The plagiarism case which music composer Ram Sampath had filed against Rakesh Roshan and Rajesh Roshan for "directly lifting" his music for Krazzy4, has been settled "out of court". Thus, the case seeking damages of Rs 20 million has been vacated.
read moreMUMBAI: Digital sales of music will go up to 40 per cent of all music purchased worldwide by 2012, according to US based research firm In Stat. Digital sales went up to 10 per cent of the total in 2007, up from six per cent in 2006.
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MUMBAI: Rakesh Roshan's film Krazzy4 will be released on Friday 11 April 2008 with its title track deleted. Music composer Ram Sampath, who sought legal recourse for his 60-second music titled ?‹?“The Thump being copied as the title track of Krazzy 4, has also been granted interim relief of Rs 25,00,000 by the Mumbai High court on Thursday. Sampath had dragged Hrithik Roshans director father Rakesh Roshan and composer uncle Rajesh Roshan, to court, alleging that they have directly lifted his music for the Krazzy4 album, seeking damages of Rs 20 million.
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MUMBAI: Vh1, a 24-hour international music and lifestyle channel, is bringing Wyclef Jean to perform live first time in India for Vh1 Handpicked. Jean's tour will begin on 16 April in Bangalore, followed by Pune on 18 April and Mumbai on 19 April.Popularly known as a member of the legendary trio The Fugees, Jean has gone on to release platinum solo albums with hits like Maria Maria (with guitar legend Carlos Santana) and Hips Don't Lie (with pop/Latino sensation Shakira).
read moreMUMBAI: Delhi based FM station Hit FM has lauched 'The Ultimate Santana Challenge', an initiative to commemorate guitarist Carlos Santana. A personally autographed original Red Paul Reed Smith guitar of Carlos Santana can be won through IDEA presents The Ultimate Santana Challenge.
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MUMBAI: Fusion artiste Rabbi Shergill released his new music album in a unique fashion with Nokia Nseries, the multimedia sub-brand of Nokia, recently.
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MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM, India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, is proud to announcread more
MUMBAI: IPRS, Indian Performing Rights Society, hosted a one of its kind landmark event aimed at read more
MUMBAI: Xiaomi India, a global technology brand renowned for its innovation, today announced a stread more
MUMBAI: UK-based audio software company DataMind Audio is launching its flagship plugin, The Combread more
MUMBAI: Ultra Media & Entertainment Group today announced the launch of a ground breaking bouread more
MUMBAI: Armaan Malik, hailed as the Prince of Pop, is aiming to bridge the gap between two different music sensibilities once again with his latest...read more
