MUMBAI: After enthralling Indian fans in Bangalore, the hard rock band Metallica has launched their next album �Lulu' in collaboration with the King of avant-rock Lou Reed on Universal Music India.
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MUMBAI: Ghazals brotherly duo Ustad Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain along with Javed Hussain will perform on Zee TV music show �Idea Jalsa - Music for the Soul'. The show will premiere on 6 November at 10.30 am with repeat on 11.30 pm.
Idea Jalsa series hosted by famous duo Annu Kapoor and Durga Jasraj will witness Ustad Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain from Jaipur enthralling viewers with their popular ghazals.
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MUMBAI: Continuing the trend of promoting film music through live performances, T-Series is all set to release the audio of �Dirty Picture' with an exclusive performance by Vidya Balan's on Friday 4 November at Inorbit Mall Malad.
The actress will perform along with the cast including Emraan (Hashmi), Naseeruddin Shah, Tusshar Kapoor, Bappi Lahiri and Shreya Ghoshal.
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MUMBAI: Roger Waters, the co-founder and principal songwriter of band Pink Floyd has announced the return of historic production of �The Wall' tour in North America.
The aural and visual masterpiece of alienation and transformation will be performed in-its-entirety featuring a full band and state-of-the-art production in 2012. The tickets for �The Wall' will be available from 7 November at LiveNation.com.
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MUMBAI: MTV will launch an online pro-social platform �MTV Voices' highlighting the content produced by international and local music artistes. The unique online space will go live on Saturday 5 November.
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MUMBAI: The much talked about Research In Motion (RIM) cloud-based social music service for BlackBerry is finally available. The BBM music service has been launched in Australia, United States and Canada.
BBM Music service pre loaded with 50-song allows blackberry users to build an evolving, community-based music library. The service offers playlist of leading music companies – Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI. User can also share tracks amongst their BBM Music friends and vice versa.
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MUMBAI: * EMI Music Publishing Collects Publisher of the Year; Paloma Faith and Plan B Honored With Special Awards; Special Tribute to Legendary Songwriter Hal David in Celebration of His 90th Birthday
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MUMBAI: Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording and OurStage.com, along with new sponsors Orange Amplifier, Gibson Guitars, and Blue Microphones, have come together to launch with Intel Corporation another exciting competition for emerging artists. The "Intel Superstars 2011 Competition" invites musicians and producers to submit original music in six genre-based competitions: Rock, Pop, Country, Singer-Songwriter, Urban, and Latin.
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MUMBAI: This week Shilpa Rao brings her melodious voice to Micromax MTV Unplugged to charm the audiences. The young Khuda Jaane singer and disciple of Ghulam Mustafa Khan has steadily graduated from stage shows to jingles to tinsel town with chartbusters like Saiyaan from the movie Salaam-e-Ishq and Woh Ajnabee from The Train. It was the romantic number from the �Bachna Ae Haseeno' that made Shilpa an overnight singing sensation.
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MUMBAI: Hausfeld LLP filed a nationwide class action lawsuit today in San Francisco federal court on behalf of Universal Music Group (UMG) recording artists. The lawsuit contends that UMG routinely miscalculates the royalties owed to artists for digital downloads, such as MP3s and ringtones, by treating them as sales... of physical records rather than licenses.... Carlton Ridenhour, who performs under the name Chuck D... and is one of the founding members of the rap group Public Enemy,... is the named plaintiff in the action.
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