MUMBAI: Siliguri is in the grip of Marathon Mania. Baghajatin Athletic Club, which is one of the oldest club in Siliguri is organising 21 km All India Invitation half Marathon and 4 km Radio Misty Fraternity run 0n 18th September in association with the First and Number one fm station of North Bengal and Sikkim Radio Misty 94.3 fm.This Event creates More than the spirit of competition and the carnival-like atmosphere on Mahalaya.This is also the silver jubilee of this run.
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MUMBAI: Aspiring Rock Stars of the city can now look forward to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as IDEA Cellular has announced the City Audition of its unique Musical Talent Hunt – �Idea Rocks India' to be held on Monday, September 7, 2009. The talent hunt show will be telecast on the popular TV channel, Colors starting Sunday, September 27, 2009.
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MUMBAI: 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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MUMBAI: Kamal Haasan's multi-faceted daughter Shruti Haasan sure has an ear for music and how! Currently composing music for her dad's film �Unnaipol Oruvan', the Tamil remake of �A Wednesday', this young lady convinced her immensely talented father to sing for her!
Now it's not for the first time that Kamal Haasan took to the mike, but it's definitely for the first time that the proud father sang for his daughter.
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Is Hindi film music, which takes the biggest pie of the music industry in India, getting better or worse over the years?
Music has always been the soul food of the Hindi film industry, often creating hits or flops out of the tunes that marked the story.
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Percussionist Pete Lockett is one of the biggest names in the world of drumming today, if one talks about the exhaustive (and varied) lists of musicians that he has collaborated or worked with – it may take a few hours by the time we finish.
Suffice to say, it's as diverse as Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin to Pakistani ghazal singer Farida Khanum and of course, the whole list of Indian classical musicians like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Selva Ganesh, Vikku Vinayakram an...
MUMBAI: Intex has launched two more dual feature rich music mobile phones in the Indian market - INTEX IN 4477 and IN 2020 Elegant.
INTEX IN 4477 is a voguish Dual SIM (GSM+GSM) phone with a befitting video and audio playability. It plays all video formats including MP4 and 3 GP and has a great sounding audio output. A big 2.4" QVGA screen should immediately catch the eye of the discerning consumer. Owing to the screen, the phone gets a full-score on the visual clarity.
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MUMBAI: This Teacher's Day, BIG 92.7 FM, India's No. 1 FM Station, across stations have made BIG plans to celebrate this special day and express gratitude towards the unmatched services being provided by these great men and women BIG FM Stations across India have lined-up offerings for this special day and is all set make this day special for the Teachers.
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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 t...