MUMBAI: Known as one of the most popular music fests for presenting bands across Asia, The South Asian Bands Festival is back this year with a strong line-up. The three day fest begins from 11 December in Delhi at the Purana Qila and will feature 15 popular rock bands from across nine countries in the sub-continent.
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MUMBAI: Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has entered into a new partnership with the Gyaan Vani radio channels promoted by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). IGNOU is a central open University with about two million students in India and 35 countries abroad.
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MUMBAI: The Indian Music Academy has unveiled 18 finalists from the national level talent hunt that it conducted over a period of three months. The talents revealed at the IMA press conference on Wednesday in Mumbai are an interesting mix that pans from a 11-year-old Sufi singer to a 32-year-old Thumri exponent.
The 18 finalists will now compete on 11 and 12 December 2009 in Mumbai.
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MUMBAI: FM radio network My FM parent DB Corp, owner of India's second-most read newspaper, plans to raise as much as 3.85 billion rupees ($82 million) in an initial public offering starting 11 December.
The Bhopal headquartered company will sell 18.2 million shares at 185 rupees to 212 rupees apiece. The offer, which ends on Dec. 15, consists of 12.7 million new shares and 5.45 million shares offered by Cliffrose Investment Ltd., an investor.
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MUMBAI: Music major T-Series has entered into a strategic alliance with Reliance Entertainment's Big Music to handle distribution for the latter's catalogue.
Industry sources mention that the labels have entered into a minimum guarantee agreement, with T-Series acquiring the content and exploiting it till recovery and later the labels would share profits.
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MUMBAI: The British Council's Soundpad Project is back this year as it brings together folk acts Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons to collaborate with Indian folk musicians, from 10 - 19 December 2009.
Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons would be touring India across cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata. While Laura will collaborate with Papon, Mumford & Sons will jam with The Dharohar Project.
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MUMBAI: Vevo, the new music video and entertainment service site, has announced an agreement with EMI Music apart from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in providing music fans with professionally-created video content when the service debuts on December 8 in the United States and Canada.
Vevo launched as both a Web site and an embedded video player is created in partnership by Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Abu Dhabi Media Company has been launched powered by YouTube.
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MUMBAI: A rock band from Nagaland has won the Hornbill national rock contest 2009, in which a total of 20 bands from different cities of the country participated.
"OFF", the band from Nagaland was awarded Rs 5,00,000 and a Casio WK 3300 synthesizer after the grand finale of the contest which concluded midnight last night, according to a PTI report.
"Hypnosis" from New Delhi and "Kaivaalya" from Kolkata were adjudged second and third respectively.
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MUMBAI: Reliance Media world, the company which operates Big FM, has inked a content partnership with the BBC World Service for entertainment updates for 32 of its FM radio stations
Reliance Media World said that entertainment updates from BBC will be available to audiences across the cities of Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amritsar, Asansol, Baroda Bhopal, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Indore, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Mumbai, Patiala, Rajkot, Ranchi, Shimla, Sholapur, Srinagar and Surat.
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BANGALORE: Life and general insurer Bajaj Allianz (Bajaj) recently launched an innovative brand building campaign to run for a month across a number of cities, christened the �Tax Campaign'.In an innovative twist, the company will use FM radio to push awareness about the campaign in these cities.
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