MUMBAI: FM stations across the country have chalked up elaborate plans to celebrate Friendship Day over the weekend.
Big FM Delhi has formed the Friendship club with RJ Sujata and RJ Ravi. The station will share various callers' memories with their friends, whereas Bangalore celebrates the Chaddu Dostu contest where gang of friends connect to their friends from any place like college, school or social sites like Orkut and Facebook.
Big FM Gujrat will have shows hosted live from...
MUMBAI: Barista has planned a music initiative, Friendship Jam for the first time on the occasion of Friendship Day.
The initiative will run in three Indian cities, from 30 July till 3 August. Barista marketing head Vishal Kapoor says, "The guitar has always been an integral part of Barista and we conceived that a guitarist and his band can perform live at Barista. We are holding the event in three cities of Mumbai for three Days, Delhi and Bangalore for five Days."
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MUMBAI: Percussionist Vivek Rajagopalan's new album 'Moving Images' was launched on Thursday night under the Blue Frog label in Mumbai. The album, which is a good mix of contemporary and classical sounds, has been inspired by electronica and draws its influence from Carnatic and Jazz music.
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MUMBAI: Universal UK has launched a DRM free website which would provide its users with rare and obscure music, reports The Industry Standard.
Titled as Lost Tunes, the website will contain music from classic rock and pop titles, and the digital store will also features archived reggae, blues, soul and spoken word catalogues.
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MUMBAI: Mobile giant Nokia has set aside funds of $150 million to open offices of its venture division Nokia Growth Partners in China and India.
The division launched in 2004 with $100 million, and the company says it is interested in companies involved with mobile applications, location-based services (LBS), mobile advertising and music and entertainment - a broad spectrum that covers most of the areas attracting attention in mobile technology and the mobile web.
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MUMBAI: Chennai based music label EarthSync bagged the 'Audience Award' at the Imaginaria International Film Festival and the 'Special Juror's Choice Award' at the Zanzibar International Film Festival held in July for their production, Laya Project.
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MUMBAI: Netherlands' public broadcaster Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), has entered into partnership with Radio Misty 94.3FM, the North Bengal and Sikkim FM station that will air a variety of RNW music programmes ranging from European pop charts to classical, jazz and world music as also RNW radio books.
After a long-term presence in India with short wave and satellite radio broadcasts, RNW has now begun to expand its activities in India.
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MUMBAI: EMI Music has appointed Rob Stevenson at a top creative post, to head its Virgin imprint in the US.
Stevenson will report to Nick Gatfield, the new A&R president of North America, UK and Ireland, and is scheduled to start his position by 15 August, says a company release.
Ron Stevenson was former top evaluator of rock talent at Universal Music Group. As a former executive vice president of Universal Music, Stevenson signed and developed artists that have sold 26m albums worldwide, such as Fall Out Boy, The Killers, The Bravery, Sum 41, Lady Sovereign, Saliva, Thric...
MUMBAI: Indiabeat, a music label known for its Indo fusion music, is ready to launch six albums by this year end. These albums are in various stages of production and will be launched between August and October 2008.
By early September, the label plans to launch a new album titled 'Namaste'featuring the Karnatriix band featuring John Anthony on guitars, Ustad Faiyaz Ahamed Khan on vocals/sarangi and "Darbuka" Siva on percussion.
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MUMBAI: Eros international and Aleya Motion Magic's new film Hijack introduces two new composers to the industry, Justin and Uday.
The music launch held this week was a star studded event with eminent people from the film industry including Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, Kaveri Jha, K K Raina, Sunil Lulla of Eros International and producer-director of the movie Kunal Shivdasani attending the function.
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