‘LULU’, a collaboration between rock-singer/songwriter Lou reed and heavy metal band Metallica is an avant grade album which sounds like an intriguing project delivering few promising tracks but later falls apart. Conceptualized from the play originally written by the German playwright Frank Wedekind, its compositions revolve around the lyrics delivered by Reed with the instrumentals composed by Metallica. There are very few tracks where one can occasionally hear backing vocals by Metall...
MUMBAI: The All India Musicians' Group (AIMG) supported by cultural institution National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), in a press conference yesterday announced the progress achieved on the objectives and key developments that it had laid down post its meeting with the Prime Minister and Ministry of Culture in December 2010, and their future actions to promote Indian Music.
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MUMBAI: Renowned global electronic music artiste Avicii will perform for the first time in India at the Sunburn conceptualized �Arena gig' to be held on 18 December in Mumbai.
The arena gigs gives artistes an opportunity to create ultimate music and entertainment experience with the help of technology like lasers, lights, sound and stage. The arena gigs will be part of Sunburn tour.
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MUMBAI: NASA has launched a custom-produced Internet music radio station �Third Rock: America's Space Station' which aims to spread the space exploration and other studies amongst its listeners.
The new radio station will broadcast new rock, indie and alternative music and can be accessed from NASA's official home page. The radio station will also be available through NASA iPhone and Droid mobile applications. The station is being developed and operated at no cost to the government through a space act agreement.
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MUMBAI: Micromax has extended its android superfone series with the launch of �Superfone Lite A75.
The handset runs on google android 2.3 gingerbread operating system and 650 MHz processor. The dual-SIM handset is embedded with 3.75 inch capacitive touch-screen, dual camera, 3G, Wi-Fi and bluetooth.
A75 comes preloaded with apps like Google Voice Search, Saavn, Times of India online newspaper and NetQin antivirus. The phone also allows users to download more than two lak...
MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Rights Society Limited (IPRS), which safeguards the copyrights of music composers and lyricists, can now initiate legal action not just against organizers of plays and shows but also against the auditorium screening them in case of copyright infringement.
The IPRS which had approached the Bombay High Court challenging an order issued by the state government de-recognizing the body said that it had never and would not demand for auditoriums to seek No Objection Certificate (NOC) before screening plays and shows.
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MUMBAI: The Sizzling hot number featuring the sensual Katrina Kaif has kept people wanting for more. The song that was digitally released on December 12th is already trending on Twitter with tweets from fans, industry barons, Celebrities etc. Being the anthem of the season, the song promises to burn dance floors across the country this New Year.
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MUMBAI: The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is pleased to announce Blue Rodeo as the 2012 inductees to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Spanning nearly three decades, Blue Rodeo has sold in excess of four million records and won an unprecedented 11 JUNO Awards, establishing themselves as one of the premier groups in Canadian music history. On Sunday, April 1, 2012, Blue Rodeo will be honoured at the 41st Annual JUNO Awards broadcast on CTV from Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, ON.
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MUMBAI: Pandora, the leading personalized radio service, today announced its November 2011* listenership results, posting Average Quarter Hour (AQH) gains in each of the top ten radio markets in the country since the last published results for September. Pandora posted 13 to 25 percent AQH listening increases in each market with the biggest AQH gain of 25 percent occurring in the New York metro survey area. An AQH rating of 1.0 means an average of one percent of a target population was listening to Pandora for at least five minutes within a quarter hour window between 6.00 a.m.
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MUMBAI: rara.com, a revolutionary new digital music service designed specifically for the mass market who still use CDs and want an easier way to adopt digital music, launches across 16 countries today, including the USA, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. rara.com will also launch in Canada, Mexico and five additional markets later this week, bringing the new service within reach of more than 900m people.
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