MUMBAI: Electronica artiste Mayur Narvekar aka Bandish Projekt is set to collaborate with British-born poet, performer and producer, Shane Solanki of Last Mango in Paris and British-Asian composer, and clarinet player for a special performance at Blue Frog on Thursday, the 4th of November.
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MUMBAI: The Backdoor Blues' band has emerged winner of the Delhi leg of Converse Original Band Hunt 2010 undertaken by youth brand Converse
The band hunt show, which culminated on 30 October at Ansal Plaza amphitheatre, Delhi, saw Ameya bag the first runner-up and On Govt Duty win the second runners-up trophy
Ten shortlisted bands competed live against one another. The seven other bands in the 10-band lineup were Middle Finger Theory, Kaash, Prithivi, Amethyst, Antardhavani and Bull Engine.
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MUMBAI: With the festive season approaching, every FM Radio station is ready with Diwali special programming. Teen Patti seems to be the flavour of the season, with at least two networks opting for the theme across two different cities. While Radio Mantra is celebrating its Ranchi station's third anniversary with Teen Patti, BIG FM Delhi too has kicked off its Diwali Special Campaign with Bollywood Teen Patti as its centerpiece, which will allow its listeners to play Teen Patti with celebrities and win prizes every hour. The prizes include watches, LED TV, gold coins, appliances, etc.
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BANGALORE: The results for the fourth edition of the Nokia Radio One College Championship (ROCC) were announced in Bangalore on Tuesday evening. The Center for Management Studies (CMS) Bangalore College team of Namitha D and Vivek Vinayak won the championship, while Pratek from Sindhi College Bangalore walked away with the �Powerful voice and stylish presence on Radio' Award, which was accompanied by a Mahindra Rodeo motor scooter.
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MUMBAI: Geodesic, a provider of mobile and desktop solutions for instant messaging, VoIP and Internet radio, has announced a partnership with Shoutcast to provide users with anytime access to an unlimited number of Internet radio stations.
The Shoutcast Radio Directory features over 40,000 professional and community programmed radio stations from around the globe.
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New Delhi: Based on the inspiring thought of music being the universal language, the first ever edition of the Chevrolet Global Indian Music Awards (GiMA) has been formulated to recognize and acknowledge Indian music and musicians. Red FM will execute the mandate of being the official radio partner at this prestigious event and will power the Chevrolet GiMA �Most Popular Song on Red FM' award.
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MUMBAI: Music channel 9XM has announced a series of Diwali special program titled Musical Pathaka for the festive season, along with prizes and contests for the viewers
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MUMBAI: In a first-of-its-kind deal by any mobile Value Added Services (VAS) company with Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), Chennai-based Techzone has bagged exclusive rights for the entire range of music of all genres for the CRBT platform of Reliance for two years. The CRBT platform contributes close to 60% of VAS industry revenue, and Techzone has bagged almost 70% of all the music ever recorded in India as PPL boasts of some of the biggest and oldest audio labels in the country such as Saregama, Venus, Tips, Sonymusic, Adiya, Sagarika, Asha Audio, Sangeetha, etcetera.
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MUMBAI: Even as Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. (RBNL), the multi-media entity from the Reliance ADA Group, exited Q2FY10-11 recording its highest quarter revenues to date, at Rs. 58.35 crores, riding strong growth in the experiential marketing business, its Radio Operations remain EBITDA positive registering 156% increase in EBITDA compared to Q1 FY10-11, and it registered a Radio inventory utilization of 64%. As is well known, RBNL also has play across the businesses of out of home, digital and television.
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NEW DELHI: Maestro A R Rahman, who has already achieved a first by getting an Oscar for his music in Slumdog Millionaire, is recipient of this year's Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.
Presenting the award to him at a function here on Mrs Gandhi's death anniversary, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said there could not be a more deserving recipient of this award since he had contributed through his art to bring about integration.
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