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MUMBAI: Radio Misty stations in North Bengal and Sikkim quickly reprogrammed Monday's line up after news of India's first Olympic gold win trickled in. A day long on air celebration termed Chak De India has been on air from Monday morning on the station, to mark Abhinav Bindra's win in the 10m rifle shooting event.
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MUMBAI: Musicians and music enthusiasts across Mumbai came to watch Australian guitarist Brett Garsed and ace drummer Virgil Donati perform on Friday evening. The performance-cum-workshop featuring Garsed and Donati was organized by Brijesh Bhargava of Bhargava Musik and composer Sandeep Chowta. "One of the main reasons for conducting this performance-cum-workshop session is to encourage and introduce amateur musicians to a new level of musicianship" says Sandeep Chowta, who also heads Columbia Records, India.
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MUMBAI: Ace violinist Dr L Subramaniam has been conferred a Honorary Doctorate in Music by the University of Sheffield in the UK. The ceremony was presided over by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Geoff Tomlinson.
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MUMBAI: Music composer duo Siddharth-Sangeet Haldipur is making a Bollywood debut in Bollywood as composers with two films. The brothers, (Siddharth is part of A Band of Boys and Sangeet belongs to Aasma) have composed for director Kunal Vijaykar's next, 'Fruit and Nut' starring Cyrus Broacha. The film is likely to release by this year end. The other film in Siddarth-Sangeet's kitty is choreographer Tarun Kumar's 'Aye phasaa'.
read moreNEW DELHI: The Government is not considering any proposal to permit news broadcasts on private FM Radio channels. This was stated by Information and Broadcasting secretary Sushma Singh, when answering a question on the sidelines of the Second Indian News Television Summit organised by indiantelevision.com. Singh noted that the government had studied the reports of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as well as the Ficci in this connection. Answering another question, she said the government was considering the report on television audience meters received recently from Trai.
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MUMBAI: Big FM has signed up as the official radio partner of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the next seven years. As a part of this partnership, the station will be launching a new programme, Cricket Mahabharat across all its stations. Cricket Mahabharat will have cricket stalwarts like Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar and stand up comedians like Raju Srivastav and Ehsaan Qureshi commenting on the cricket series.
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MUMBAI: More than 3,000 firefighters from across the globe will lend their voices to a 'Hey Jude' singalong, to mark 40 years of the Beatles classic.
read moreMUMBAI: Warner Music is demanding higher royalties from video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Star, wanting to avoid mistakes made at the launch of MTV and the iPod, reports the Financial Times. "Warner would not license its music to video games if royalty rates remained far below what their true value is. The amount being paid to the music industry, even though their games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small," said Warner's chief executive Edgar Bronfman.
read moreMUMBAI: Big FM has quoted the latest Indica Research Consumer Insights findings to claim leadership in Hyderabad among FM stations. The station enjoys leadership of Listenership, Time spent Listening and Top of Mind Brand Recall across age groups amongst both males and females, says the station. The Indica data demonstrates the success of the New 'BINDAAS' attitude positioning of Big 92.7 FM Hyderabad, says the station that has revamped its content on-air.
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MUMBAI: Baba Sehgal is set to launch his new album by October this year. The singer has coined the title as either 'Gadi ko dhakka mar' or 'Mainu kee'. The album will have multiple elements like rap, bhangra incorporated with a lot of messages. Instead of looking out for a label for launching his album, the rap singer is in talks with corporate bodies to launch his album.
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MUMBAI: Radio City has extended its avowed association with music with the launch of a music portal, www.planetradiocity.com. Touted as India's first ever 'mega music portal' with features that target professionals and music enthusiasts alike, planetradiocity.com offers music related news, feeds, articles for musically inclined people and music professionals. As a music networking platform, it aims to get musicians, artists, industry experts and music enthusiasts together and share their ideas, views and music.
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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: Pop star Dhvani Bhanushali is all set to headline this year’s prestigious Mysore Dussehra, sharing the spotlight with musical legends like A....read 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
MUMBAI: This is the first time that Shruti have created a multilingual track which includes the lyrics in three different languages Shruti Haasan who...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
