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MUMBAI: Metacafe, the world's leading short-form video entertainment site, today launched the Metacafe Music Channel. The channel features established artists and up-and-coming acts in the genres of Pop, Rock, R&B, Hip Hop, Country and Latin. Metacafe's more than 38 million unique monthly viewers1 are now invited to watch, comment on and share their favorite music videos.
read moreBANGALORE: Radio One's Bangalore station completed two years in Bangalore on 16 November. The station that targets the 'fataafat generation' (18 to 24 years) of listeners, lays claim to the number three position in terms of listenership in Bangalore, the top slots being claimed intermittently by either Radio Mirchi or Big FM.
read moreMUMBAI: Mufin, a new music discovery site that enables music lovers to tap into entirely new artists and songs regardless of their geography or popularity, has announced the official release of its public beta at www.mufin.com.
read moreMUMBAI: BBC Asian Network has announced schedule changes for the year 2009 .Adil Ray takes over the reins of the BBC Asian Network breakfast show (weekdays, 6.00-9.00am) from the New Year, it was announced today. Current breakfast presenter on the national digital radio station Jas Rao swaps roles with Adil and will present the Drive show in a new weekday timeslot of 3.00 to 6.00pm.
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MUMBAI: Film director Vikram Bhatt is foraying into the music business scene and is planning to launch a music label, ASA Music. This sister concern of Bhatt's ASA Productions will be open to market music produced by other production houses as well. Confirms Vikram Bhatt, "We would be marketing and distributing film as well as non-film music and are also ready to market films outside ASA Productions."
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MUMBAI: The Association of Radio Operators for India (AROI), has launched its first ever campaign to evangelise radio.
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MUMBAI: Spice Mobiles has announced the launch of Spice D-88 Gold, a versatile gadget with a gold finish. The handset, empowered with the GSM and CDMA technology, facilitates its users to benefit from the best of dual technology known. The active dual mode enables dual sim usage and simultaneous calls and messages on both SIMs. This also allows calls to be hold and swapped simultaneously between GSM and CDMA connection without re-booting the phone.
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MUMBAI: Polish band Zakopower will perform live in Mumbai for the first time on 24 November at the NCPA. Zakopower, that was nominated for the 'Best Polish Act' at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards, is part of the cultural line up which the Consulate General of Poland has drawn up celebrations to mark its 75th year in Mumbai and the 90th year of Poland's independence.
read moreMUMBAI: Roger Waters, Will.I.Am, Anoushka Shankar, Hard Kaur, Jalebee Cartel, Vishal and Shekhar, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Niigaam and Shaan are among the musicians who will perform with Jon Bon Jovi at the Live Earth India concert on December 7. The other celebrities who will be on stage during the event to be telecast on Star World and Channel V are Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Bipasha Basu, Shiamak Davar, Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal and Purab Kohli.
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MUMBAI: It has been a day of yo-yoing between the various TV worker associations and the Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees Association (FWICE), which is their parent body on the wage agreement that the latter signed on their behalf with the producers bodies yesterday. All of the crafts voiced their grievances, saying they were not happy with the settlement through the day by raising a protest outside the FWICE offices.
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Radio Mirchi's SUD hit the floor badly J... on his bachelorhood... party. Radio Mirchi held a contest for all Bachelors of Mumbai for SUD's bachelor party. Two girls dressed in I Dream of Jeanie... costumes welcomed the winners with Garlands. The winners also had an opportunity to get themselves photographed in a beautiful, luxurious looking Harem tent decorated with hookahs and Arabian style drapes.
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MUMBAI: MUMBAI: Radio City's award-winning flagship show Love Guru completes five years on 24 November. The show on relationships providing counsel, companionship and comfort accompanied with the choicest Hindi melodies, is hosted by mystery host RJ Love Guru. The show airs simultaneously in 16 cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Vadodara, Surat, Sholapur, Nagpur, Sangli, Ahmednagar, Akola, Nanded and Jalgaon.
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MUMBAI: Sagarika Music in a short span of time has gained a reputation of presenting talented artistes to the world of Music, in the Marathi Music world. After the super success of Mazhi Gaani... – �Vaishali Samant', �Avadhoot Gupte' and �Swapnil Bandodkar', Sagarika Music now presents with Mazhi Gaani – Shreya Ghoshal...
read moreMUMBAI: Volvo will become the first automaker to offer HD Radio technology as standard equipment in all but one of its 2009 models, it was announced today. The running change becomes effective next month on the 2009 Volvo model line up.* HD Radio technology is the most significant advancement in radio broadcasting since the introduction of FM stereo. Across the United States, more than 1800 AM and FM stations are broadcasting using HD Radio technology and more than 900 are offering subscription-free HD2 multicast channels on the FM dial.
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MUMBAI: Spotify has reported a noticeable boost in Premium subscriptions from iOS users followingread more
MUMBAI: Cricket fever hit the airwaves as Radio City, India’s leading radio network, became the Oread more
MUMBAI: Apple and Universal Music Group (UMG) have partnered to introduce Sound Therapy, a new coread more
MUMBAI: Sapphire Media Limited has completed the acquisition of FM Radio station, BIG 92.7 FM.read more
MUMBAI: An attorney defending AI company Anthropic in a high-profile copyright lawsuit admitted tread more
MUMBAI: Rumours continue to swirl around Blackpink’s Lisa and luxury brand executive Frédéric Arnault as the two were recently spotted enjoying a...read more
MUMBAI: High intensity, no filler rockers, Calgary's LOVER announces they will be performing at this year's Armstrong Metal Fest (July 11/12), one...read more
MUMBAI: Bhushan Kumar's T-Series presents Jubin Nautiyal’s latest single Ishq Mera - a gentle, emotionally-driven track that explores how some...read more
MUMBAI: Ahead of Memorial Day, multi-Platinum and award-winning, Chris Janson, has released his patriotic new track, “This Flag,” out now. Written...read more
MUMBAI: US-based rapper Post Malone is expected to perform in Guwahati on December 8, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced during a...read more
