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MUMBAI: Nashville Harbor/Harpeth 60 Records multi-Platinum selling artist, Chris Janson, has just announced summer dates for his captivating and lively, Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Tour.
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Credited for opening the doors of bollywood to disco music, Bappi Lahiri has become synonymous with the genre and is the only singer-composer to have earned the 'disco king' tag. His refreshing, vibrant, and rhythmic music had the entire nation dancing for decades. With several chartbusting tracks to his name, Bappi da as he is fondly called, is all set to complete 40 glorious years in the Indian music industry this November.
read moreMUMBAI: In an attempt to stop online piracy, Coca-Cola and Samsung have pulled their ads from a popular Vietnamese website 'Zing.vn' for providing unlicensed downloads of Western and local songs. The companies have abandoned the music site after ‘The Associated Press’ alerted them to local and international concerns about the website which is named as the sixth-most visited site in the nation.
read moreMUMBAI: With digital music sales becoming the norm around the world today, the trend is all set to break the record and is expected to reach record-breaking numbers in 2012, according to a report by Nielsen SoundScan.
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MUMBAI: Come December hard rock fans are bound to flock to either New Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore to watch the 90's iconic American hard rock band Guns N Roses (GnR) perform live in India for the very first time. Event organizing company, Delhi based Mooz Entertainment is making sure that an incident similar to the aborted Metallica concert in 2011 does not happen again and fans get their 'paisa vasool'.
read moreMUMBAI: Hungama.com, aggregator, developer, publisher and Bollywood and South-Asian content distributor, is among one of the 10 companies that has received an undisclosed amount of capital from Intel this year. Intel Capital, the global investment and M&A arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, on Wednesday announced investments worth $40 million (Rs 209 crore) in 10 technology companies in the world, including Hungama.Com from India.
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MUMBAI: Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin has announced the premiere dates and venues of their 2007 O2 concert film ‘Celebration Day’. The premieres will be held in four cities around the world. The film’s worldwide premiere will start at New York’s Zeigfeld Theatre on 9 October. Prior to the premiere, founding members John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant will be joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham, for a press conference at New York's Museum of Modern Art, report said.
read moreMUMBAI: Seventies Swedish pop band Abba’s greatest hits album ‘Gold’ has topped UK’s all-time best selling CD list. The band’s ‘Gold – Greatest Hits’ compilation album released after 10 years after the group split in 1982 has sold more than four million copies, to take the number 1 spot, agency report has said. The album unsurprisingly has some of the band’s most loved pop hits like ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Chiquitita’, ‘Take a Chance on Me’ and ‘Mamma Mia’.
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MUMBAI: Dominating MP3 formats, veteran Canadian rocker Neil Young is all set to release a new line of high-resolution portable music player ‘Pono’ delivering superior quality of audio for its listeners. Schedule to launch in 2013, the device is claim to be similar to Apple’s iPod and features keypad instead of scroll wheel. As per the reports, Young has also acquired the backing of major labels- Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. The 8,000 album titles from Warner have already been converted to 24-bit/192kHz digital files.
read moreMUMBAI: As technology continues to advance and change the face of content consumption, more adults in America now access the daily news through their mobile devices, according to a report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism with The Economist Group.
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MUMBAI: After gaining widespread popularity across the web with around 300mn views, Korean pop sensation Psy’s Gangnam style video has made its debut on Indian television with Mtunes HD show ‘AlterNative’.
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MUMBAI: After witnessing negative growth in the past year, the radio sector has finally bounced back and recorded a positive compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.9 per cent (over 2011 Q4 to 2012 Q2). According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012 Q2 report, radio recorded a reach of 158.16 million as compared to its reach in the first quarter which was recorded at 154.94 million.
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MUMBAI: The worlds of art and technology have always had an intricate relationship, but in recenread more
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MUMBAI: Hailey Bieber recently shared a reassuring photo of her husband, Justin Bieber, after his emotional selfies sparked concern among fans.In...read more
The premiere episode of Pokémon’s new series is slated to launch on Hungama on May 25 read more
MUMBAI: Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) has assembled a team of friends for a new project called The Familyhood Nextperience. The collective's debut single...read more
MUMBAI: Prepare for a musical experience as Samarth Swarup gears up for the release of his upcoming EP “Sama". Produced by Bhushan Kumar, the EP...read more
MUMBAI: GRAMMY® Award-winning and chart-topping artist/producer duo The Chainsmokers and GRAMMY® nominated R&B singer and songwriter Fridayy have...read more
