Hailed as world’s No.1 DJ, French house music producer David Guetta is currently trending in India with his much awaited three-city tour for the second edition of Eristoff Invasion 2012 festival.
The Grammy award winning producer who is nearly worshipped at dance music festivals across the world has kept his promise to lend one of its kind concerts in India by installing ‘Grand Festival set,’ which he used during international gigs.
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MUMBAI: Combining live music with adventure sports the eco-friendly music fest ‘Gulmarg Winter festival 2012’ will showcase performances of renowned indie folk artistes Raghu Dixit, Half Step Down and Bombay Basement. The fest with magnificent Himalayas providing the backdrop will commence from 9-11 March.
The fest will also feature talented bands such as Traveling Blues, Lagori, Map & Manta Sidhu, Hundred Octane, Nyu'n'Tum Records, AudioGramme, Space, Rishi Inc., Hashback Hashish, Chill Om Records - DJ TaTvA K, Reuben, Highway 61, Tritha, TechnoholiK and Chakra Vu.
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MUMBAI: Eugeniy Yelchin, brain behind the animated characters in Oscar winner ‘Rango’ has created a virtual music band ‘Super Doggies’.
For the first time ever, a music video will feature 3D holographic animated characters spreading the message of hope for children in the world.
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MUMBAI: Capturing the inimitable experience of one of the Asia’s biggest music festivals, Percept Pictures in association with Viacom 18 has embarked on one of its kind initiative of producing a movie on Sunburn Dance Music Fest 2011.
‘Sunburn – The Movie’ will be produced and creatively mentored by director Anurag Kashyap of Phantom Films. The music which has been the main stay of the festival will be further elevated by composer Amit Trivedi. The movie is shot live during the fest which was aired in over 100 countries.
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MUMBAI: Giving budding rockstars a chance to showcase their talent, ‘Hard Rock Rising 2012’- a global battle of bands will kick-start from 1 March in India.
HRC has selected bands from five cities namely Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore to compete for the qualifying events. Shortlisted bands will be judged by a panel of local industry experts and the other participating bands’ representatives. A final round featuring each of the preliminary winners will be held on Thursday, 22 March 2012.
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MUMBAI: Renowned for his soulful and simple ballad-style singing, Lucky Ali is all set to perform live in Mumbai and Pune .
Dubbing it as his comeback tour, the singer will perform an unplugged session on some of his tracks like ‘O Sanam’, ‘Na tum jaano na hum’, ‘Gori teri aankhen’ and more.
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MUMBAI: Nokia has unveiled a 41 MP camera smartphone - ‘808 PureView’ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The handset features 4 inch screen ClearBlack amoled gorilla glass display with 360 x 640 resolution and 16GB internal user memory which supports MicroSD cards up to 32GB. Powered by 1.3GHz processor, the device runs on Symbian Belle OS.
The device also sports Dolby headphone technology enabling users to experience media in surround sound.
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92.7 BIG FM, Chennai’s No. 1 Melody station and winner of the Golden Mikes Broadcaster of the Year Award, celebrated the incredible success of Tamil women entertainers with the BIG Salute to Tamil Women Entertainers Awards on a balmy Saturday evening at the statuesque Anna Centenary Library.
The awards are a first of its kind initiative to honor women entertainers without whom the entertainment industry would never be complete, and were given away in the fields of Cinema, Television, Music, Media, Dance, Theatre, Debutants and Sports.
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MUMBAI: A Musical Collage of Theatre, Literature and History in English-Hindi (2 acts-120 mins), Tata Theatre - Sunday, 4th – 7.00 pm
Accounts of music-making in India, and stories of the struggles and hardships faced by musicians, both real and imaginary, lay the foundation for a collage of dramatised episodes that blend theatre, music and literature. Several forms of theatre in India make abundant use of music, but Stories in a Song takes the help of theatre to tell stories of musical forms such as kajri, thumri, dadra, khayal, remixes and more.
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MUMBAI: VH1's Emmy award-winning "Rock Docs" franchise will premiere two new documentaries during the SXSW Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures' "Marley," the first film to tell the definitive life story of revolutionary music icon Bob Marley, will be making its North American premiere at SXSW on March 11th at 5:30PM CT. In addition, "UPRISING: Hip Hop and The L.A. Riots," narrated and executive produced by rapper Snoop Dogg, is set to make its world premiere at SXSW on March 14th at 10PM CT.
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