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MUMBAI: Guinness World Record holder and human beatboxing champion Shlomo has announced eight finalist for his project �Voctronica'- country's first all-vocal beatboxing orchestra. The members of Voctronica orchestra include 14 year old youngest artistes Megha Manvi, Avinash Tewari, Meghana Bhogle, Alan Desouza, Sushma Joseph, Vineeth Vincent and Raj Verma.
read moreMUMBAI: Raditaz today introduced the future of Internet radio, delivering over 14M tracks from the cloud to the web, and to iOS and Android devices. Raditaz is a radical evolution of the Pandora model, with more than 14M songs in its catalog, better discovery, unlimited skips, and location awareness at the heart of the application. Raditaz is a better way to discover and listen to the music you want to hear, and to see what's trending locally, in cities around the country. Raditaz can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store or the Android Market. Some key facts:
read moreMUMBAI: Over the past decade, independent artists have earned significant income from traditional licensing opportunities in TV and film, but with YouTube quickly becoming the most popular online music-discovery platform, there are countless opportunities to license music on a much smaller scale.
read moreMUMBAI: Chart-topping singer-songwriter Julie Frost is proud to add Golden Globe Award winner to her list of accomplishments. Frost recently won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Masterpiece" with Madonna and Jimmy Harry. The song was produced by William Orbit to be featured in Madonna's new film, "W.E." Frost's road to success is a fairytale that took her from indie artist to sought-after singer-song writer. "It is an honor to receive a Golden Globe Award and to be acknowledged in a category that included so many of my musical heroes," says Frost.
read moreMUMBAI: The fight over the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) anti-piracy bill is leading to aggression and battle all over the web world. On 19 January, the US Department of Justice and FBI announced that they were shutting down file-sharing site' Megaupload.com' over piracy violations. They charged the site's founders and five others with internet piracy crimes for running an international organized criminal enterprise.
read moreMUMBAI: Thousands of people cast their votes to help People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India determine the Hottest Vegetarian Celebrities of 2011, and Dhanush and Mallika Sherawat have been declared the winners. Dhanush and Sherawat beat out early leaders Vivek Oberoi and Vidya Balan and faced further competition from Sonu Sood, Shahid Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and Kareena Kapoor.
read moreMUMBAI: Indian users can now make free calls from their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android phones to others across the world and also use their premium service to make very cheap calls to all fixed and mobile phones. Sweden based company freephoo launched their free mobile VoIP application in India that enables users to make free calls from their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android phones free of cost using the WiFi or 3G network.
read moreMUMBAI: Shahrukh Khan's Chammak Challo from Ra.One has topped the �Top 50 songs of 2011'chart leaving behind Salman Khan's �Teri Meri' from Bodyguard at the second spot, according to Ormax Media music countdown chart Heartbeats.
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MUMBAI: Music maestro AR Rahman is the �Legend of the Month' at PlanetRadiocity.com. The music portal has kick started a new property �Legend of the Month' with Rahman being the first legend. The portal has announced �The AR Rahman Quiz' where lucky participants can win designer watches every week and compete for the grand prize—a Smartphone.
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MUMBAI: Susmit Sen, founder and guitarist of fusion music band Indian Ocean has launched his first solo album �Depths of the Ocean' on EMI Music. The launch witnessed a brief live performance by the impeccable guitarist jamming on some of his pieces from the album. The album includes seven tracks featuring his trademark guitar work along with an eclectic mix of singers, including classical vocalist Shubha Mudgal, Nitin Malik of Parikrama, Papon and the band's late member Asheem Chakravarty.
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MUMBAI: Times Music has unveiled the second folk album of Rajasthani folk singer Rajnigandha Kumari Shekhawat. The album 'Banna Re' was launched by Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. The album features some of the most popular folk songs of Rajasthan that have been used in various Bollywood films. All the songs are traditional and have been sung by Shekhawat while the music arrangements are given by Amit Ojha. Shekhawat has performed at over 300 concerts worldwide including Kala Ghoda Festival for three years.
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MUMBAI: India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, Red FM, proudly welcomed the neread more
MUMBAI: MY FM, known for its commitment to bring the best in music and entertainment to the listeread more
MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has announced the appointment of Dr Bikrread more
MUMBAI: The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announced today that it has filed a legal aread more
MUMBAI: The world is a stage! Literally.read more
MUMBAI: South Asia’s premier advertising and marketing festival, Goafest 2024 now unveils supporting partners for its 17th edition. Scheduled to take...read more
MUMBAI: In what is one of the most exciting collaborations in recent times, cult figures of the underground UK rap scene, PAV4N and Sonnyjim have...read more
