BANGALORE: Two-time Grammy Nominated American heavy metal band Lamb of God will headline the first edition of �Summer Storm Festival' in Palace Grounds, Bengaluru, on May 15, 2010
Richmond, Virginia based Lamb of God is currently one of the biggest names in heavy metal globally. A favourite of fans and critics alike, the band was formed in 1994, and has released six studio albums so far. The latest of these, titled �Wrath', not only debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, but also sold close to 68,000 copies in its first week of release.
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MUMBAI: LimeWire, the makers of file sharing software, have been found liable for infringing the music copyrights of 13 major record companies, in a judgement by a US Court.
The lawsuit was filed in August 2006 by Arista, Atlantic, BMG Music, Capital, Elektra, Interscope, LaFace, Motown, Priority, Sony BMG, UMG, Virgin and Warner Brothers. According to the ruling, LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton were liable for infringement and engaging in unfair competition with the record labels.
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MUMBAI: Radio City's popular humour capsule Babbar Sher, will now run on the station as a one hour show every Saturday from 8 pm to 9 pm. The extended show will be titled as 'Babber Sher Mehfil'.
Babber Sher is a world of contrived 'sher o shayri' that combines creativity and inanities into simplistic and effective humor.
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MUMBAI: She swept almost all popular awards last year, including the Grammy. Continuing her haul, Taylor Swift has been nominated for three awards at the 2010 CMT Music Awards. Giving competition to Swift is Carrie Underwood who is also nominated for three awards.
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MUMBAI: Oscar winner Resul Pookutty is all set to release his autobiography entitled Sabdatharapadham' (meaning, the sound of the milky way) on 13 May, to be published by Penguin India.
The 400 page tome, detailing over eight months of labour will contain Pookutty's personal experiences, his projects, life at the Film and Television Institute of India, where he learnt sound designing, to the time when he picked up the sound world's greatest honours. Pookutty prefers to call the book a ...
BANGALORE: The four Sharma brothers (Sharma Bandhu) of the Sooraj ki garmi se... fame from the Hindi feature film Parinay... will be performing at the silver jubilee function of Brahmavadi Sanskritik Sangh (BSS) Bangalore between May 13-15 between 6 to 9 pm.
The Sharma brothers forte is the Shri Ram Darbar Style... of singing, and they will perform Ram Charit Manas the distinctive singing and unique interpretation of Shri Ramcharitmanas, an eternal epic for Hindus the world over, penned by Goswami Tulsidas.
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MUMBAI: BBC digital radio station 6 Music, that is facing the axe received two Gold awards at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, who present a Saturday morning show on the station, won the Gold award for Best Comedy. Jarvis Cocker, the Pulp singer who also presents a show on the station, was given the Rising Star prize.
The victories at the Awards is said to give a boost for protestors hoping to persuade the BBC that the stations should be saved.
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MUMBAI: Ameen Sayani, the popular voice that entharlled radio listners for years is now back as Radio City with his popular show – �Geetmala ' every Sunday of June.
The show will have a repertoire of songs showcasing gems from Indian film music from the 1959 to 1960, timeless �hits' of the time, interwoven with interviews of legendary artists such as RD Burman, SD Burman, Mohd. Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Madan Mohan, Kishore Kumar & Mukesh.
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MUMBAI:Avid readers and fans can now hope to know inside-out of Oscar winning duo A R Rahman and Resul Pookutty as both are set to release their individual autobiographies this year.
Both Rahman and Pookutty were asked to write the autobiography by Penguin India after their Oscar win last year.
While Rahman will be releasing his autobiography in the later part of the year, Sound designer Resul Pookutty will be releasing his on Thursday May 13, 2010.
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MUMBAI: International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) has announced the nominations for the 11th Micromax IIFA Awards 2010 to be held from 3-5 June. 3 Idiots led the way in the music category sweeping five nominations. The film has also grabbed four Technical awards which have already been declared.
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