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MUMBAI: With excitement building up for the Clef Music awards, Radioandmusic have announced their early bird deadline.
read moreMUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan launched the Tamil and Telugu versions of the songs from his much awaited movie Ra.One in Chennai. The world premier of the Tamil songs was done on the official Ra.One YouTube channel. The �Chammak Challo' and romantic �Dildaara' Tamil teaser generated huge response from the fans. Shah Rukh Khan is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the music of Ra.One is loved and appreciated by the entire country. Along with SRK for the launch in Chennai, the popular South Indian actress, Suhasini Maniratnam was also present.
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MUMBAI: Microsoft has launched the latest version of its operating system for smartphones, Windows Phone 7.5 - code-named 'Mango' in India, almost a year after the OS was launched globally.
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MUMBAI: In its second edition, MTV O Music Awards will pay a musical tribute to the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, to honour his contributions in the digital music sphere. The homage will feature an up-and-coming artiste performing an iconic song. So far the announced performers and presenters include Kelly Clarkson, the Band Perry, Demi Lovato, Mac Miller, Midi Mafia and DJ Diamond Kuts. The awards also attempt at breaking into the Guinness records books by hosting the longest dance party in history, looking to surpass the 55-hour current record.
read moreMUMBAI: The supervisory board of Bertelsmann AG has appointed Thomas Rabe, currently CFO of the group, as its future chairman and CEO. Rabe will succeed the current chairman and CEO Hartmut Ostrowski on 1 January 2012. Ostrowski is resigning from the executive board for personal reasons and will be moving to the supervisory board. The changeover takes place amicably and by mutual consent. Ostrowski joined Bertelsmann AG in 1982 and has worked for the company in various functions ever since, with only a brief interruption.
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MUMBAI: Gibson has taken guitar engineering to a new level by introducing high tech guitar �Firebird X' limited edition. Gibson has loaded its new offering with 20 revolutionary features which includes improved audio quality with a range exceeding 100dB and over 2,000 pickup combinations that allow guitar to emulate iconic guitar tones.
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MUMBAI: Country singer Taylor Swift has been honoured with the prestigious title �Women of the Year' by Billboard Magazine. The four-time Grammy winner Swift is the youngest artiste to receive such an honour. The past recipients of the title include Reba McEntire, Black Eyed Peas lead singer Fergie (2010) and Beyonce (2009). The award will be presented on 2 December at �2011 Billboard Women in Music' in New York City.
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MUMBAI: British singer Adele is leading the nomination for 'American Music Awards' with four categories including Favorite Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, Favorite Album and Artist of the Year category. Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry and Rihanna followed Adele with three nominations each, whereas Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Jason Aldean, Kanye West and LMFAO have all been nominated in two categories. Katy Perry and Pitbull were announced as performers for the AMAs.
read moreMUMBAI: After several successful jazz concerts, 'Sandeep Chowta Project' has come up with yet another new venture �The Producers Concert and Album Series' with Mriya entertainment. It will be a year-long series featuring musical virtuosos of different disciplines and geographies. The project features four musical collectives that will perform every quarter.
read moreMUMBAI: For the first time ever, renowned singer Kailash Kher and talented singer-composer Leslie Lewis will perform together and showcase a blend of Sufi and Western music, at a four-city extravaganza �Antiquity Club Fusion'. The tour will kick-start on 15 October at Firangi Paani in Mumbai and move across Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata.
read moreMUMBAI: RJ Malishka and Nitin are the most popular RJs in Mumbai and Delhi respectively, according to the media research firm Ormax Media's annual syndicated study �RJ Files'. The study was conducted in the month of September among 600 radio listeners in the two markets. This is the second edition of RJ Files, which was launched in 2010.
read moreNEW DELHI: Uday K Varma, who had earlier served as Special Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, is tipped to succeed Raghu Menon as Secretary even as orders came promoting Supriya Sahu as the Joint Secretary (Broadcasting) in the Ministry. Varma is a senior Indian Administrative Service Officer from Madhya Pradesh belonging to the 1976 batch. He is presently serving as Secretary in the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Ministry.
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MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has announced the appointment of Dr Bikrread more
MUMBAI: The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announced today that it has filed a legal aread more
MUMBAI: The world is a stage! Literally.read more
MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
MUMBAI: With excitement building up for the Clef Music awards, Radioandmusic have announced their early bird deadline. Music artists, industry...read more
MUMBAI: SEVENTEEN’s JEONGHAN and WONWOO are coming together to release their first-ever single album THIS MAN, slated to debut on June 17 at 6 PM...read more
MUMBAI: On Sunday, May 19 superstar German trio, Keinemusik, took centre stage at Pacha Ibiza playing a seven hour, open to close set at their sold...read more
MUMBAI: Ahead of the unveiling of the multi-city Paagal World Tour, rapper, producer, and singer-songwriter Badshah continues to break records with...read more
