RnM Team 17 May 12 12:27 IST

MUMBAI: Saregama is all set to rejuvenate the golden era of Bollywood music with a unique orchestral property titled ‘The Bollywood Musical’. The label has collaborated with talented music composer duo Salim-Sulaiman for re-creating the biggest classics.osle, Lata Mangeshkar, RD Burman, Kishore Da, Shankar Jai Kishan, Lakshmikant ...

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RnM Team 16 May 12 19:12 IST

MUMBAI: Paris Hilton is all set to release her collaborative single with LMFAO ‘After Midnight’ in the month of June.

Hilton will perform her new single at the Pop Music Festival on 23 June in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The heiress will make her public DJ debut with a closing performance at the fest which will also feature acts by other renowned artistes like Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Clarkson....

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RnM Team 16 May 12 19:12 IST

MUMBAI: The progressive Delhi based rock bands Ebonix and Five8 will perform a mashup of some of their popular melodies on 17 May at Hard Rock Café.

Formed in 2008, Ebonix is a five-piece band comprising of Vaibhav Sahay (bass), Dhruv Malik (guitars), Vaibhav Chawla (vocals/guitars), Sargun Sethi (keyboards) and Karan Rampal (drums). Their music is broadly classified as a diverse mix of melodies and hard thumping beats and they are highly influenced by bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC and Black Sabbath amongst others....

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RnM Team 16 May 12 19:11 IST

MUMBAI: Bollywood’s rollicking singer/composer Vishal Dadlani’s latest track 'Mar Jayian' from Vicky Donor has become one of the most hit songs from the album.

The Sufi rock song produced by Donn and Bann has been climbing up the charts with great reviews and has received more than 1.5 lakh hits on YouTube....

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RnM Team 16 May 12 13:33 IST

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended that licencees of telecom licences may provide application services and additional facilities in case of any value addition or upgradation that the technology permits subject to intimation to the licensor and the Authority at least 15 days in advance before the introduction of these services or additional facilities....

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RnM Team 15 May 12 18:36 IST

MUMBAI: Bangalore based rock band Sonic Flare are all set to groove on 17 May at Hard Rock Café in the city.

The band will perform some of their popular blues and funk rock tracks oriented towards the 80’s.

Formed in 2002, the six-member band comprises of Nikhil Ponnanna (vocals), Priyanka Goswami (vocals), NeerajKhanna (guitars), Ajit Narayanan (bass), Vinay Raghavan (drums) and Kaushik Nath (keyboards)....

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RnM Team 15 May 12 18:35 IST

MUMBAI: After premiering the coveted Golden Globe and Grammy Awards, Vh1 India is all set to air Billboard Music Awards 2012. The awards will telecast on 21 May at 6:30am with a repeat at 8pm.

The event will witness performances by Justin Bieber, LMFAO, Katy Perry, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Lopez and Usher amongst others. The awards night will be hosted by Emmy award-winning TV couple Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell....

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RnM Team 15 May 12 18:33 IST

MUMBAI: Big CBS Spark is striving hard to survive  in the highly cluttered music environment. The international music channel has recently added an electronic music show B Crunk’D to its offerings.

The channel claims that it is the only show in the country dedicated to electronic music. The show features high energy songs from various genres of music like Trance, Electro, Electro rock and Disco of artistes including Chase & Status, Nero, Avicii and more.  Tracks from Universal Music library will also be aired on the show....

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RnM Team 15 May 12 17:49 IST

MUMBAI: Saregama in collaboration with Talat Aziz has initiated a new offering ‘mehfil e samaa’, an august musical gathering of the industry to celebrate Indian traditional music across the country.

It is a unique concept created for the fraternity and traditional music listeners who appreciate live Indian music. ‘Mehfil e Samaa’ will have performances by known artistes from genres like ghazal, classical, sufi, qawwali, folk as well as talented  singers who have never had an opportunity to showcase their talent....

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RnM Team 15 May 12 17:44 IST

MUMBAI: Big FM has initiated a social campaign in partnership with Western Railways and Humanitarian Welfare & Research Foundation to create awareness about safe railway travel, highlighting the issues of rooftop travel and track crossing amongst commuters.

Titled 'Safety Manao Life Banao', the campaign will see RJ Ankit hosting the breakfast show from a mobile radio studio at Dadar station from 7-11am every morning, until he gets a minimum of 9270 volunteers to support the cause and spread awareness....

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24 Dec 09 18:01 IST

MUMBAI: On December 31, 2009, the WorldSpace satellite radio broadcast service will be terminated for all customers serviced from India, according to an announcement posted on the company website.

This action is an outgrowth of the financial difficulties facing WorldSpace India’s parent company, WorldSpace, Inc., which has been under bankruptcy protection since October 2008, the announcement says.

WorldSpace is present in over 130 countries globally, and has already been in the process of closing down its operations in most other countries....

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18 Nov 08 13:27 IST

MUMBAI: Anuj Sharma, the forgotten third finalist of Indian Idol's second season is ready to cut his debut solo Hindi album.

Says the singer, “Universal Music is launching my solo Hindi debut album, ‘Khwaab’ in December and I would be making my comeback in the Hindi music scene.”

The music for ‘Khwaab’ has been composed on an assortment basis by Gaurav Dayal of (Dil le gayi kudi Gujarat ki fame) and Saibal Basu, who had earlier composed for the 2003 film Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II....

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01 Dec 09 18:24 IST

MUMBAI: After years of churning out popular VJs on television, MTV is back with its VJ hunt contest.

Calling everyone who is above 18 years of age, Idea MTV VJ Hunt is set to kickstart in Mumbai from 5 December and will round up the contenders from Chandigarh, Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata and Bangalore on 8, 11, 14, 18, and 21 December respectively.

Started in 1999, the contest is back on air after seven years. MTV VJ Hunt has discovered talents including Nikhil Chinappa, Malaika Arora, Cyrus Sahukar, Sophie Chaudhary, Shenaz Treasurewala, Rannvijay apart from host of others....

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09 Dec 09 16:12 IST

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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16 Jul 11 18:41 IST

MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM Hyderabad has organized actor hunt in association with Bhavya Cements & Tollywood’s dynamic director Teja. Selected actors will get an opportunity to work with the director in his upcoming untitled film.tnaik, Navdeep etc will run on-air. Acting tips for amateurs, improvisation techniques, body language tips will ...

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19 Nov 09 18:06 IST

MUMBAI: Star Plus has renewed its vows with Gajjendra Singh, with a new music 'reality show' that brings musicians Himesh Reshammiya, Mika Singh, Mohit Chauhan, Shaan and Shankar Mahadevan on one platform.ons from among the country's multitudes. Christened Music Ka Maha Muqabla, the show takes the place of Star Plus' Voice of India, which ran for two seasons on the channel till last yea...

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01 Feb 10 08:58 IST

MUMBAI: Urmila Dhangar, the singer from Badlapur who impressed judges and audiences alike with her voice, walked away with top honours at Zee Marathi's

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa season seven that culminated in Mumbai on Sunday evening. Dhangar whose husky voice and rendition of lavanis and other folk songs made her extremely popular among the contestants during the current season, was crowned the winner after an exhaustive finale, by renowned veteran folk singer Vitthal Umap. The other two finalists - Abhilasha Chellam and Rahul Saxena - were adjudged runners up....

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04 Dec 08 13:31 IST

MUMBAI: Radio City's mystery RJ Love Guru will make his Bollywood debut with a tailor made role in Studio 18's Dil Kabaddi that releases on Friday.hul Bose, Irfan Khan, Konkona Sen, Soha Ali Khan and Rahul Khanna, in the film. He helps the two modern day urban couples - Samit (Irfan) and Mita (Soha), Rishi (Rahul Bose) and Simi (Konkona) handle complex, sensitive matters of the heart to solve the never ending quests which their hearts put them...

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26 Oct 09 16:55 IST

MUMBAI: Radio Indigo national sales director Nabhojit Kuila has resigned and would be quitting the organisation by the end of October.

The FM station, a venture of Jupiter Media, has been without an operations head since Jayyant Bokhare resigned in March this year. dio Indigo and would be filling the post in by...

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21 Jan 10 11:59 IST

MUMBAI: When it comes to music, 2010 has started on a good note for sure.

A R Rahman's track from Couples' Retreat 'Na Na..' has already been nominated for this year's Academy Awards.  For those who may have forgotten, Slumdog Millionaire's now famous track 'Jai Ho' is also nominated at this year's Grammy Awards.

Rahman's friend and Oscar winner Resul Pookutty is escatic about Rahman's nominations, but more than anything else, the Kerala born sound techinician is confident that this year too, Rahman will reign. ...

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