MUMBAI: Lyricist Prasoon Joshi for the very first time has composed a song for Prakash Jha's next film Aarakshan, with the support of ace singer and music director Shankar Mahadevan.
On this occasion Prasoon Joshi said, "'Kaun Si Dor' is a wonderful song. The thought was to center it on a philosophical level but in a common man's understanding. Shankar was graceful enough to keep this as part of the album. Kaun si Dor comes at a poignant juncture in the film and I am looking forward...
MUMBAI: Grammy Award winning rapper, songwriter and producer T-Pain will perform live at 'Tuborg Vh1 Hip Hop Hustle' from 17 to 19 June in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune respectively.
Speaking On the association T-Pain said, I am really excited to come to India and meet my fans. I am aware that the Hip Hop culture in the country is really big and am looking forward to play in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune. I would like to thank Vh1 and Tuborg for this opportunity. I hope my fans are ready to par...
NEW DELHI: Bacardi India has launched its new global campaign �Bacardi Together' in collaboration with Randolph Correira, one of the most prolific music producers in the country, iconic rock band Pentagram and popular electronica duo Shaair n Func - to create a catchy base track.
Over 30 days, hundreds from across the country contributed to the track, along with scores of leading Indian musicians including Monica Dogra, Raghu Dixit, Vishal Dadlani, Swaratma, Zero. The track was uploaded online for music lovers to listen and add.
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MUMBAI: HTC has launched a Facebook centric handset HTC Salsa in India, which feature a dedicated Facebook button for easy access to the social networking site.
The handset includes a 3.4 inch TFT touch screen, multi format music player with 3.5 mm audio jack, 5 MP-camera with auto focus, flash and a secondary front facing VGA camera for video calling, 800MHz Qualcomm CPU, 512MB RAM.
The device is preloaded with Android, HTC Sense, 2.3 Gingerbread, 3.0 bluetooth with A2DP, socia...
MUMBAI: Today PlusFourSix kicks off the non-commercial beta for Kiwi, Europe's first premium cloud based music service also offering music videos. Potential partners such as operators, handset manufacturers, retailers and media companies now has the possibility to try the service live in 20 countries throughout Europe.
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MUMBAI: Taking advantage of the pioneering technology of Last.fm, the world's leading music discovery and recommendation service, the CBS Interactive Music Group today announced it will now offer consumers the ability to create their own online stations via one-click functionality integrated into its award-winning Radio.com player. Featuring any of the more than 4.5 million artists in Last.fm's library and nearly 12 million tracks, the player will provide listeners, for the first time, an infinite number of free streaming experiences across broadcast, online and personalized radio.
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MUMBAI: Sirius XM Radio announced today that "The Book of Mormon Radio," the two-day channel featuring exclusive content about The Book of Mormon, the new Broadway musical by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator Bobby Lopez, will air on channel 104.
The limited-run channel will launch the day before this Sunday's Tony® Awards, Saturday, June 11 at 6:00 am ET and will air through Sunday, June 12 at 11:59 pm ET.
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MUMBAI: 92.7 BIG FM, radio initiative of Reliance Broadcast, recently launched its new positioning with fresh content and format giving the station a distinct sound, breaking through the clutter of other radio stations in Delhi. On June 9, 2011, the hot new couple, Anurag Kashyap and Kalki along with the star cast of Shaitan, a youth-centric thriller produced by Anurag and starring Kalki, unveiled the new positioning of the station with RJ Vidhi at Hotel Ramada Plaza.
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MUMBAI: Chennai-based mobile VAS company Techzone, is planning to invest Rs 30 crores in product expansion, including its domain into music platforms, content generation and gaming service business.
Confirming the development to Radioandmusic.com Techzone director Naveen Bhandari said, We are investing RS 30 crores for the next two years on music industry which includes bollywood and international pop, and on technology platform for gaming and content delivery....
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MUMBAI: X Factor India has finished with its auditions and has announced top 12 finalist for the show. The gala performances will start from today 10 June.
The twelve finalist of the show have been divided into three categories mentored by the show judges.
Sonu Nigam will mentor contestant under-25 age group: Piyush, Shovon Ganguly, Seema Jha and Sahiti.
Shreya Ghoshal will tutor contestant above-25 age group: Kartar Singh, Geet Sagar, Amit Jadhav and Manjeera Gangully....
