MUMBAI: After Big FM Mumbai held a live coverage of Raavan's music launch on 14 May, it's Chennai station did a live radio telecast of the curtain raiser of the film's Tamil version Ravanan exclusively from the venue.
Hosted by RJ Dheena, the show went live from 6pm to 9pm giving the viewers interviews of the cast & crew, update on the first look. The station took its listeners through the first look and sneak peek of the film at the red carpet in Sir Mutha Venkata Subba Rao Concert Hall.
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MUMBAI: Absolute Radio is all set to launch a new digital station in June, Absolute Radio 90s, and take its existing digital service Absolute 80s nationwide.
The station, which will be accessible only on the London digital audio broadcasting (DAB) network in its primary stage, will play the finest music from the nineties as well as tracks from the likes of Oasis, Blur, Manic Street Preachers and Beautiful South. This is the second digital-only station the corporation has launched in the preceding year.
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MUMBAI: Lifestyle television channel has enhanced its Bollywood content with a new show called Zoom Box.
The video jukebox is an interactive music show wherein viewers can choose their favorite song simply by sending an SMS on 58888 powered by indiatimes. The viewers can also comment on the songs and even dedicate a song through the channel. The show will be aired every Monday to Sunday 11am to 12 noon.
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MUMBAI: Oscar wining sound designer Resul Pookutty's autobiography 'Shabdatharampadam' was released by Maharashtra governor K Sankaranarayanan on 13 May 2010.
The 397 page book, which Resul Pookutty prefers to call a 'Travelogue', is an oral narrative describing life changing events from his life. The book is co-authored by published author and poet Baiju Natrajan.
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MUMBAI: Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) has revamped its website www.drm.org making it user-friendly and easy-to-navigate, furnishing it with additional information and a host of new features to make it the one stop solution for all DRM related information.
The new website has a dedicated members' area where all those who are part of the DRM Consortium can share information, take part in discussions, access databases and search and upload documents. It also provides useful details of the system with the recently updated Broadcasters' ...
MUMBAI: After juggling sucessfully with playback singing as well as albums, singer Kailesh Kher is now set to roll over to the digital space with the launch of his track 'Tere Liye'. Radio Mirchi exclusively premiered the song on 14 May.
To download the track users can sms �Tere' to 56060 and get the song. The song will also be available across key music websites for downloads.
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MUMBAI: 'I Hate Fake' a part of The Global IPR, an organisation to raise awareness about piracy has roped in UK based DJ Sin to especially compose a song for them tiled 'I Hate Fake.' The track is crooned by DJ Sin along with DJ Bid Lo.
The event for the launch of the track will be hosted on 14 May in Mumbai and will see DJ Sin and Bid Lo spinning music .
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MUMBAI: Radio One will air composer duo Ajay-Atul's concert to spread awareness about water conservation on 15 May, 2010. The campaign addressing the water woes is called �Save Water, Save Mumbai' campaign.
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MUMBAI: One of world's most reputed music school, the LA based Musicians Institute (MI) will make its first recruiting drive in India this year with an exhibit at Musician Expo at the Bombay Exhibition Center in Mumbai June 3-5, 2010.
MI's participation at the exhibit will be a great opportunity for music students in India to pursue the dream of studying contemporary music from a music school that has given the world virtuoso musicians like John Frusciante, Frank Gambale among many oth...
MUMBAI: Music composer A R Rahman and actor Kartina Kaif launched Saregama India's kids album Rhymeskool Vol. 1 on May 13, 2010. The music of this album is composed by students of A R Rahman's Chennai based music school KM Music Conservatory, and supervised by A R Rahman.
Katrina Kaif features as a narrator, and since it was for kids, Kaif did it for free
"I was only happy to give some of my time to it," she said.
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