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MUMBAI: Big FM Bangalore has initiated a new campaign to connect with its listeners and address issues faced by a common Bangalorean. Titled 'Bendethu Bengaluru' , the two week long campaign will address one major issue every day , starting 7 July till 19 July 2008
read moreMUMBAI: Mastercard has teamed up with musicians Jon Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton and Kenny Chesney for its Roots of Rock sweepstakes contest. As a part of this contest, the credit card major will offer five US Mastercardholders an opportunity to visit the concerts of their "chosen artists."
read moreMUMBAI: Mastercard has teamed up with musicians Jon Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton and Kenny Chesney for its Roots of Rock sweepstakes contest. As a part of this contest, the credit card major will offer five US Mastercardholders an opportunity to visit the concerts of their "chosen artists." Mastercard has developed a site at priceless.com for consumers to collaborate with each of the three artists and create a virtual tour of the places where "they cut their teeth on the road to music royalty."
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MUMBAI: Big FM's Mumbai station is readying its new show 'Har Subah with Archana Jani, Ek Superstar Ki Monsoon Kahani' with RJ Archana Jani on 'Big Chai'. The show, crafted with the rains in mind, is meant to soothe the anxiety of always-on-the-run Mumbaikar.
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MUMBAI: Music composer Shamir Tandon, who recently composed the promotional track of Popcorn Entertainment's Mission Istanbul, has many other Bollywood projects lined up in the second half of 2008.
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MUMBAI: Zee Marathi is set to launch Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs for kids on 7 July. This is the first time that the kids version of the singing-based reality show will be on Zee's Marathi language channel. Zee Marathi had successfully run the four seasons of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa (two normal seasons, a 'celebrity special' and 'forty plus' age-group season) since 2005. "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa has given us an entry into the 9:30 and 10 pm slot, which was dominated by Hindi GECs. This has helped boost the channel's ratings tremendously," says Zee Marathi deputy vice president Nikhil Sane.
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MUMBAI: Motorola has announced the launch of ZN200 phone in Brazil during September. The gadget is the low-end version of ZN500. The ZN200 is enriched with the standard Motorola Crystal Talk Technology. This phone is dual band and features a 2 MP camera, mp3 player with Windows Media. Player 11, on-board image editing tools, and an integrated FM radio. The Motorola ZN200 is said to provide 3G connectivity. Its sparse 30 MB internal memory can be increased up to 1 GB with the microSD slot. It offers wireless music with its Bluetooth and A2DP card support.
read moreMUMBAI: The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, is close to finishing an antitrust investigation into how royalties are collected. An AP report says the outcome might help large music retailers like Apple Inc.'s iTunes sell from one store across Europe, rather than different stores with different products in each of the 27 EU nations.
read moreMUMBAI: Chennai based music label and high-end audio-visual production house EarthSync has announced that their flagship product Laya Project will be in stores across India on 3 July 2008. EarthSync is committed to nurturing folk, tribal and native music from Asia, and bringing this music to a global audience by bringing together the traditional and the contemporary from around the world.
read moreMUMBAI: AirCheck India has compiled a comprehensive airplay chart of songs on popular radio stations across the country for the last six months. AirCheck India, the radio monitoring service provided by Radio Computing Services, has analyzed airplay of popular songs in the first six months of 2008 and has condensed the results into a chart of the Twenty Most Popular Songs on Radio in India. The company says such charts are a standard media fixture and resource in many media markets around the world, but have not been available in systematic fashion till now.
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MUMBAI: Having composed for Jawani Diwani, Aryan, Brahm and Dil Dosti, music composer duo Siddhartth Suhas is now geared to compose the scores for atleast five new Hindi films. Next on their list is the composition and background score for 'Hangman' directed by Vishal Bhandari, staring Gulshan Grover, Om Puri and Shreyas Talpade, followed by 'Hum se hai Jahaan' by Mashoor Amrohi.
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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: 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
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
