MUMBAI: Nashville Harbor/Harpeth 60 Records multi-Platinum selling artist, Chris Janson, has just announced summer dates for his captivating and lively, Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Tour.
read moreMUMBAI: T-Series recently acquired the music rights of the much hyped Madhur Bhandarkar directed- �Jail'. With this acquisition, the music label's lineup for the coming year seems strong with all major projects grabbed by them. T-Series will start promoting the music of Jail from September end. Says T-Series president - marketing media publishing (TV) Vinod Bhanushali, We have a comfortable working equation with Madhur Bhandarkar as we had acquired his last project �Fashion' last year....
read moreMUMBAI: Online Music company Z Kids Music has announced the launch of kids personalised CDs featuring Sesame Street songs lyrics. Z Kids Music specialises in offering personalised kids music. It compiles collections of children's favorite songs and also incorporates the child's name in the song.
read moreMUMBAI: Unlike last year when Asha Bhosle released her own solo album �Precious Platinum' (which quite unexpectedly made it to the top 40 list of Amazon's world music chart), this year around it's time for the legendary singer to feature in an contemporary album composed by her grandson Chin2 (son of her eldest son Hemant) and member of one of India's foremost boy bands - �A Band of Boys'.
read moreMUMBAI: The 55th National Awards was a mix affair with majority of awards going to the south Indian film industry. Bollywood too made its presence felt. Lyricist Prasoon Joshi bagged the award as best lyricist award for the song 'Maa' from Taare Zameen Par. The same song also earned Shankar Mahadevan his second National Award as best playback singer after 'Yenna Solla Pogirai' from the popular Tamil film Kandukondain Kandukondain in 2000.
read moreMUMBAI: GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) will be hosting A.R. Rahman's 'Jai Ho' concert on 24 October as a part of the 'Airport Festive Carnival', organized by the Airport authorities from 19 to 25 October.
read moreMUMBAI: Mangalore based community radio at St. Aloysius College - Radio Sarang 107.8 MHz is planning to approach the Wireless planning and coordination (WPC) wing of the Ministry of Communications for rectifying technical issues in their frequency.
read moreMUMBAI: The ADAG promoted Big FM has launched a rural activations divsion. Raj Kambhoj has been appointed as the director of the new division. Kambhoj's main area of focus will be to create rural activation properties and conceptualise events which will be amplified on radio The task ahead for Raj will be to optimise business opportunities available in the tier II and III cities tapping the 193 districts that Big FM covers while touching almost 200 million Indians across the country.
read moreMUMBAI: Veterans of Indian classical music will converge in Goa to participate in Pandit Jitendra Abhishekhi Musical Festival to be held on 12 and 13 September. Pandit Abhishekhi, a Goa-born nationally famed classical music genius, is hailed for single-handedly reviving the Marathi musical theatre in 1960s. "The festival in Goa is not only for entertainment value but also to instill a sense of classical music in younger generation and introduce them to various gharanas," a spokesperson for the organisers told PTI.
read moreMUMBAI: The Chinese government has ordered a cleanup of the country's online music market that will require music sites to seek approval from censors for all foreign songs they distribute on the Internet, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The Ministry of Culture's measure, which affects music services provided by companies including Google Inc. and Baidu Inc., is the latest effort by the government to try to assert control over the Internet, which has some 338 million users in China, more than in any other country, the report says.
read moreMUMBAI: Hailing from Assam to be a rockstar in Mumbai, the �Ajnabi Khwaab mein' singer Raaj is on a roll with many songs under his belt.
read moreMUMBAI: Internet portal for Indian bands, MyBand is hardly an unknown entity. Recently, the portal had launced a service allowing its registered users to put their music on sale and create albums - a great offering for Indian bands to make a commercial start. Their latest addition to the website is internet radio streaming which will allow listeners across the globe to discover music coming from Indian bands. Presently, MyBand has a database of 850 bands with approximately 4000 artists.
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