MUMBAI: Reiterating their duty towards Chennai's Radio Cityzens, Radio City 91.1FM came together with Chennai City Traffic Police to conduct a 'Road Safety Awareness Campaign'. Organized on June 14, 2008 at Elliot's Beach, Chennai's Radio City 91.1FM hosted an array of interactive games around Traffic Safety Rules. Joining RJ Anandhakannan (Joyride) and RJ Archana (Endrendrum Punnagai) in getting the message across was Mr. Sunil Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police, Chennai City Traffic P...
Saregama India has released The Underground Bombay Series- The Best of what's next, a platform for upcoming musicians and local homegrown deejays.The artistes vary from new age to electronic world music to Sufiana and the tracks are effectively selected. The album opens to a contemporary fusion work "Mandra Masitha" played by DJ Gaurav Issac and the nice Sufiana voice of Richa Sharma evokes a modern mixed feeling. For those who would like to hear Indian-Punjabi-Sufi li...
MUMBAI: Saregama India has announced the launch of the music of Rituparno Ghosh's Khela, the first film to be rolled out from the Saregama stable this year. The music will be released on 28 June, and the film is slated to hit theatres on 11 July , nation wide in Hindi, and in Bengali in West Bengal.
The film's music has been composed by a band from Kolkata called 21 Grams. The film stars Prosenjit, Manisha Koirala, and Raima Sen .
Saregama's other projects this year include Kar...
MUMBAI: Dhamaal 24, the radio network launched under B.A.G Films & Media Ltd's umbrella brand Broadcast 24 completes one year of operations on 18 June.
On the occasion of its first anniversary, the station has lined up a slew of programmes to celebrate the day with its listeners. Selected listeners will be crowned as Star listeners and will be sent out gifts and prizes. These lucky listeners will also get to participate in the Dhamaal birthday bash.
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MUMBAI: Tips Industries' artiste managemement arm has signed on 15 musicians, who will be promoted aggressively by the company.
The artistes include Atif Aslam, Jal, Ahmed and Krishna, among others. Tips will produce their albums and do a 360 degree promotion. Says Tips Music and Artist Management MD Rajeev Sogani, "I see a very good future as far as artiste management is concerned. By next year, Tips should be getting very good returns." Currently, the company is focusing on a lot of Pakistani talent, since Sufi is the taste of the season.
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MUMBAI: MTV has filed a police complaint against the crowd of a particular community, for ransacking the music channel's office premises in Mumbai on 16 June.
Satish Manshinde, the lawyer representing MTV India, told Indiantelevision.com, We have lodged a police complaint. It was unfortunate and not a proper democratic way of protesting. We did not mean to hurt anybodys religious sentiments and it (the poster in concern) did not mean anything derogatory against anyone.
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MUMBAI: Samsung Telecommunications has announced the launch of its Flagship model Soul (SGH-U900) in the country. The company has also launched eight new advanced mobiles - SGH-i780, Samsung D780, Samsung E251, Samsung M120, Samsung J150, Samsung BeaT450, Samsung Guru 300.
The new launches in the multimedia section are SGH-E251, SGH-M120 and SGH-J150. Samsung E251 in the music phone segment has a 1GB content loaded MicroSD, FM radio with RDS and MP3 music player.
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MUMBAI: Independent music group Impala has contested the decision by European Union regulators to approve the combination of the music units of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG, which brings artists like Shakira, George Michael, Avril Lavigne and Elvis Presley and labels such as Arista, Jive, Epic and Columbia under one roof.
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MUMBAI: London Calling, the annual gathering of businesses and senior executives from the music industry around the globe, will be held on 19 and 20 June 2008. Senior executives, artistes and allied industry representatives from over 40 countries, including USA, Japan, China, India and France are expected to participate.
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MUMBAI: According to a survey conducted by the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, people aged 14-24 finds that youngsters still love their music and are wiling to pay for it- but only on their own terms. What stands out in the result of the survey is that 80 percent of the users said they would pay for a "legal file-sharing service." Also the fact that legal download services does exist, that makes it easy to buy legitimate content right now.
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