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MUMBAI: To pay tribute to the legendery guitarists, Vh1 India will begin with a show called Vh1 Gods of Guitar that will run throughout May. The show, that starts on 3 May, will air at 11 am on weekdays with repeats at 11 pm.
read moreMUMBAI: Verizon Wireless and Vodafone have teamed up for the first ever live global mobile simulcast, when the two broadcast four songs live from Madonna's historic performance show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City where she debuted songs from her new CD "Hard Candy".
read moreMUMBAI: Big Music has announced its partnership with Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd to produce the music for the online racing game Crazy Cart in India.
read moreMUMBAI: Sirius Satellite Radio has launched an exclusive channel, Radio Mom, to mark the 100th anniversary of Mother's Day. The channel will broadcast for one week beginning 3 May and will run through Mother's Day, Sunday, 11 May. Radio Mom on channel 119 will be devoted to personal messages, greetings, dedications from listeners about their mothers and mother figures. The messages of callers will be collected through a special "Radio-Mom" call in number.
read moreMUMBAI: Music label Saregama plans to invest between Rs 10 to 15 million during its initiative to find 30 new artists from across the country.
read moreMUMBAI: According to UK radio industry monitor Rajar, the British digital radio industry has seen a growth in trends for the number of people listening to digital radio. Claims made this year showed that the format was receiving insufficient publicity. The quarterly figures revealed almost one third of the UK population listens to digital radio each week, Radio listening has risen upto one per cent to 45.4 million per week, in adults the number of people who own a DAB radio tuner has gone up to 27.3 per cent.
read moreMUMBAI: In an initiative to bring radio out of the studio walls and make it more interactive, Red FM plans to launches a new show called Red FM Khopcha with RJs Neeil and Nyssha. The show will be broadcast live from the actual studio to be set up at the new stores of Lifestyle and Homecentre at the Oberoi in Goregaon.
read moreMUMBAI: T-Series, which has been on a music acquisition spree, has struck deals for seven more films's rights. After a series of releases early this year, the music label has acquired music rights of seven films, promos of some of which have already hit the airwaves, while others are in the pipeline. The list includes five feature films - Hastey Hastey, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Mere Baap Pehle Aap, De Taali, Mehbooba and two animation films, Dashavtar and Ghatothkach.
read moreMUMBAI: Idea Cellular in association with Arts and Artistes has created a music video Jai Hind. The video is a tribute to the new India. The video aims to highlight the diversity of the country in terms of language, culture, race musical styles and bring all these elements together to promote a national identity anthem for the youth to embrace and be part of the nation building exercise.The initiative has got the backing of Prasar Bharati, the I&B Ministry and the Indian Music Academy.
read moreNEW DELHI: With plummeting record sales, Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) feels they are charging under reasonable limits for the music content to the radio industry. Says PPL CEO Vipul Pradhan, "Almost all the content that the radio plays is music and we are charging only Rs 660 per needle hour, which I feel isn't excessive by any means. The price was set by the government and I, myself, am complaining about the rates fixed. If I were to set a rate for my content, it would be no less than Rs 2,400 per needle hour."
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MUMBAI: In a music scene cluttered with noisy electronic music, The Aryans has also evolved and moved on from soft melodies to Indie Rock. After making a mark during the late nineties with the introduction of the Pop/Rock culture, the band has now finalised the date and month for the launch of its new "Rock" meted album.
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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: 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: 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: 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
