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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.
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MUMBAI: Times Music's Bollywood arm Junglee Music has acquired the music rights of Sanjay Gupta's forthcoming project, Acid Factory. Confirms Times Music COO Adarsh Gupta, "Although we are not actively acquiring Bollywood films, Acid Factory seemed promising. The acquisition prices have stabilized post the slowdown and we managed to get a good deal." As the music label handles its digital content itself, the digital rights lies with Junglee and they would aggregate the content to telecom operators.
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MUMBAI: One of the country's most revered singers Asha Bhosle now claims the title for being the Most Recorded Artist. The recognition comes from World Records Academy - the world's largest certifying organization for having sung whopping 13,000 songs across genres till now. A similar title for recording the highest number of songs was held by her elder sister and well-known acclaimed singer Lata Mangeshkar between 1974 to 1991 with the Guinness World Records.
read moreMUMBAI: Siliguri based Radio High is back on air after staying off the airwaves for over five months. Radio High, a broadcasting venture of Syntech Informatics, resumed operations on 25 August after shifting its studio to a different location and having sorted its differences with licensing bodies like the PPL and IPRS. Radio High managing director Milon Chakrabarty says the hiatus helped the station to refurbish itself with a new studio set up for both video and audio recordings in a location which helps it to reach a wider audience.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio City 91.1 FM will kick start the third season of their music property- Musical-e-Azam from September 7 to 18, 2009. The slot will be aired every weekday on prime time morning show – Kasa Kai Mumbai. Musical-e-Azam which has showcased eminent Indian singers will include singing sensations of the current generation. The line-up of musicians include Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghosal, KK, Pritam, Shaan, Javed Ali, Rekha Bharadwaj, Raghav Sachar, Sajid Wajid to name a few.
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MUMBAI: Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, sons of sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, had been missing from the classical music scenario for a while. The reason – the duo were to debut in a J P Dutta Hindi film alongside models Tupur and Tapur Chatterjee. Ironically, the film has been put on hold for financial reasons, and the duo is back to performing, and resuming their work on an album and a book on classical musicians
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MUMBAI: Quick Gun Murugan would approve. Composer Sagar Desai has got industry biggies Fox Star Studios, Sony Music as well as QGM film producers Phat Phish to acknowledge his work on the album that gives QGM the film its distinctive edge. Desai, whose name had been dropped from the credits on the CDs, posters, theatrical prints and the website, has been assured that his name will now appear in all these places. The out of court settlement reached with the three parties however has not resulted in any pecuniary compensation for Desai.
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MUMBAI: My FM has readied itself for the coming festive season, with a new campaign across all its 17 stations, beginning Wednesday. The station has also got itself a slightly modified logo. The new campaign comes reloaded with the leading characters Dimaag and Dil, and adopts the tagline �Kyunki Dimaag to Dimaag hai, Suno Dil Ki, 94.3 My FM ke saath Jiyo Dil se', and a clutch of differentiated programming all directed at the youth TG.
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MUMBAI: One wonders if A R Rahman is on an award piling spree this year. This time it's the 'Grassroot Grammy' held in the US where he was nominated with another music icon from the South, Ilayaraja. The oscar winning musician bagged the prize for his soundtrack in the Tamil film "Godfather" in the 'Best Indian album' category at the 'Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards' held this year in Nashville, US on 29 August. Bangla band 'Krosswindz' were among others nominated in the category.
read moreMUMBAI: That Bollywood music is ruling the roost is known but it is not essentially contemporary Bollywood music that rules, apparently. To track top ranking Bollywood music every week, Ormax Media has launched a new tracking tool – �Heartbeats'. This syndicated product has been created primarily for broadcasters (TV and radio), advertisers and content producers.
read moreMUMBAI: Having organised the awards for the past 33 years, Rapa (The Radio and TV Advertising Professionals Association of India Ltd) awards are likely to be cancelled this year, according to the Rapa managing committee. Initiated in 1974, this would be the first year that the awards have been cancelled.
read moreMUMBAI: The Vizag station of Radio City has launched a talent hunt with a special property - Voice of Vizag... (VOZ).
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MUMBAI: Pacha Ibiza’s legendary Flower Power is back again this season, reimagined for a new era while staying true to its core essence. Every...read more
MUMBAI: While the supposedly religious try to claim God’s favor for themselves and deny it to anyone they see as “other,” Canadian Afrobeats queen...read more
MUMBAI: One band to rule them all! After multiple battle rounds with bands from across the country in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Oshawa...read more
MUMBAI: Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) has assembled a team of friends for a new project called The Familyhood Nextperience. The collective's debut single...read more
MUMBAI: After captivating fans with his Coachella performance, international pop sensation Justin Bieber stirred concern when he shared tearful...read more
