MUMBAI: NDTV's Indian of the Year for music honour has been bestowed on A R Rahman, at a function held on Thursday. Rahman, who was unable to attend the ceremony, sent a pre-recorded acceptance speech. The composer scored the music for Shekhar Kapoor's Elizabeth:...
MUMBAI:Sony Playstation's Bollywood Singstar, launched in November last year, has sold nearly 5000 units since launch. Sony, which brought in the hugely popular Singstar game to India has tied up with Sony BMG for content. The playlist currently comprises 30 popular songs. The Bollywood Singstar unit, priced at Rs 1500, also allows buyers to go in for additional bouquet of songs for Rs 500....
MUMBAI: RCS India has recently started monitoring radio stations in Surat, the second largest city in the state of Gujarat. In Surat, Radio Mirchi, Radio City, MY FM and BIG FM are on air and are being monitored.AirCheck India, a BPO entity and subsidiary of US-based RCS Inc., provides audio identification services of commercials and songs that are played on air. This service is of particular value to the industry, as it helps broadcasters to track competition and to gear their own marketing activities. AirCheck India monitors radio stations around the clock, every day of the ...
MUMBAI: EMI Music has released 'Upasana', a series of devotional recordings at the 'Pt Motiram & Pt Maniram Sangeet Samaroh' in Hyderabad. The devotional four CD compilation is a portrait of Panditji's musical pursuit and love for the almighty. The music is composed by Kedar Pandit, says a release issued on 16 January....
MUMBAI: Saregama released 'Breathing Under Water'– an album by Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale, accompanied by Sting, Norah Jones, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Medieval Punditz and Salim Merchant on 14 January 2008....
MUMBAI: Sun TV Network has launched S FM at Rajabmundry through its subsidiary Kal Radio, taking the total number of stations to 20 across India. Sun TV already operates in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Tirupati, Madurai, Tuticorin, Lucknow, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Kozhikode (Calicut), Indore, Vijayawada, Varanasi and Tiruchy....
come December, and the air starts humming with excitement. Be it the winter solstice, or new year revelries, festivities crowd the calendar. For a small but devoted section of Indian classical music aficionados, this is the time to head to Chennai where the annual 'music season' is in full swing. Celebrated during the lunar month known as 'Margazhi' in Tamil (mid-December to mid-January), the season has the city reverberating to the drone of the tanpura and the lilt of the mridangam in music concerts organized by the many 'gana sabhas', or music academies, across the city....
MUMBAI: Mumbaikars have been deeply affected by the alleged molestation of two girls by group of young men on the midnight of December 31, 2007. In the light of the matter, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM India's hottest radio station pledges concern and support to the wellbeing of women in Mumbai with "Yeh Mumbai nahi hai meri jaan... campaign.The campaign kicked off on the station earlier this month with specials on the issue, focusing on the incident.
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It may be miniscule right now, but the market for classical music in India is growing at a steady clip, the dominance of Bollywood music notwithstanding. www.radioandmusic.com's Shalabh discovers that more music companies are tapping newer genres within the classical space to get the cash registers ringing. The good news - Indian classical music sales are picking up, slowly but steadily. The bad news - there isn't any, really. Music companies in India have for th...
MUMBAI: A new music company, Swiss Music released its debut album 'Dard bolta hai- Sun zara' at its launch in Mumbai on Wednesday. The event was graced by veteran composer Ravindra Jain, who launched the company's first album featuring new singer Rahul Verma....
