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MUMBAI: Radio City has recently launched a Bollywood music-based quiz contest, titled �Music Ka PH.D'. The show begins from 8 September on �Whatte Fun Mornings' (7 – 11 am), the contest will last for a month Mumbai RJs Harssh and Archana and Bengaluru's RJs Kiran and Varsha will test the music gyaan of its listeners in these cities.
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MUMBAI: The sequel to Vishesh Films' Raaz, that had composer duo Nadeem Shravan creating a hit score, will have a team of composers working on the score this time. While Raaz' music rights lay with Tips, the music rights of Raaz - The Mystery Continues have been acquired by Sony BMG. The Sabri brothers, Sharid and Toshi, both participants of reality shows, will mark their debut in the Hindi film industry with this movie.
read moreMUMBAI: EMI and Warner Music Group have extended their tie up with a new marketing and distribution partnership in India, South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. The announcement was made on 8 September in London. Warner Music Group will market and distribute EMI's worldwide repertoire in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea and Thailand under this multi-year license agreement. The exclusive local physical and digital distributor of all EMI Music releasese will be taken care by WMG.
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MUMBAI: BBC has rolled out a campaign to promote its three shows that run on various FM radio stations in India. The campaign, which includes print advertising and on-ground activation, are for its three infotainment shows - BBC Ek Minute, Ek Mulaqat and BBC Take One. The month-long campaign will be rolled in Mumbai and Gwalior. As part of its print advertising, the ads will be placed in Mid-Day, Mumbai Mirror and Maharashtra Times.
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MUMBAI: Saregama India launched Asha Bhosle's new album 'Precious Platinum' at a suburban hotel on the occasion of the legendary singer's 75th birthday on Monday. The album boasts nine melodious tracks composed by Nitin Ramesh Shankar who frequently tours with the singer on her live shows.
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MUMBAI: If the Ganesh festival is here, can the devotional albums be far behind? More than 200 different albums launched by various labels, some new and many vintage, are currently lining music store racks across Mumbai. The voices behind the albums include newbies as well as stalwarts like Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigaam and Shreya Ghoshal, and the repertoire encompasses chants, shloks, bhajans and even remixes of popular Hindi film songs, modified with lyrics loaded with piety.
read moreMUMBAI: 'Shanti Shanti', the Sanskrit rock band has come up with a new album, titled 'Veda', based on the oldest scripture of the world - the Vedas. The band presented the first copy of the album to acclaimed Hindu leader and president of Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed in Nevada. The CD produced by Ganesha Publishing BMI contains shlokas (hymns) from all four Vedas-Rig-veda, Sama-veda, Atharva-veda, and Yajur-veda. With some shlokas being as old as 1,500 BCE, it took one year to complete extensive research and selection process for the CD.
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MUMBAI: T-Series Public Performance License (TPPL) president M M Satish has put in his papers at music company T-Series, with which he was associated for over last five years. The anti-piracy crusader, who made headlines with his anti piracy measures as head of the PPL at the Indian Music Industry, and then as head of TPPL, is turning scriptwriter and producer for Hindi films. Satish will be taking up the position of CEO of a reputed entertainment company within a month.
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MUMBAI: Saregama India is hosting a music exhibition at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai (formerly, the Prince of Wales Museum). The exhibition aims to take visitors through the transformation of Indian music in the past 110 years. Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar inaugurated the exhibition on Friday. The exhibition will last till 30 September, 2008.
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MUMBAI: After Kolkata based Friends FM launched its CDs in Kolkata earlier this year, Synergy Media's My FM has joined the music bandwagon by launching its music CDs in collaboration with Universal music. Named after its most popular night show �Chaandni raatein', the album will be available in stores all over India. The popular night show hosted across seven states - Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra through My FM's 17 stations is a musical tribute to the golden classics of Bollywood.
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MUMBAI:Pop singer Sherlyn Chopra has a lot of 'dard' and she wants to share it with everybody else in the world. Starting from Mumbai, the damsel plans to share her 'dard' in Delhi, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Pune, Vizag and Hyderabad by promoting her new album Dard –e-Sherlyn.
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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: For musicians the world over – both independent and managed - this should come as a breath of fresh air. The .music registry yesterday...read more
MUMBAI: Mahindra Independence Rock will be celebrating its 30th Edition milestone with its unique line-up, reuniting the legends and unleashing...read more
MUMBAI: Renowned Bollywood playback singer and composer Amit Trivedi is thrilled to announce his latest, Azaad Collab. Known for his soulful voice...read more
