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MUMBAI: SmartSound Software, Inc., the leader in fully-customizable royalty-free music and soundtrack creation technology, today announced Quicktracks—an innovative new Cloud-based music customization service. The industry's first Web service to provide music track customization online, Quicktracks will give SmartSound users complete creative control over the company's extensive Royalty Free Music Library directly from the web site. SmartSound will launch Quicktracks at NAB 2011, April 11th-14th, Booth SL7410.
read moreMUMBAI: Red FM 93.5 is the frequency to tune into this extended cricketing season. The station's evening drive time show, Mumbai Local (Mon-Sat 5-9pm), is hosted by RJ Mantra who is an avid cricket fan and a store house of cricket related trivia. With cricket related contests, humorous sparklers, match updates and loads of prizes Red FM is pulling out the big guns as the World Cup enters the knockout stage.
read moreMUMBAI: No Rock, No Bull, Just Blues - that's the (excuse the pun) blueprint for the Real Blues Festival of Orange County "2," taking place on Sunday, May 15, again this year at The Olde Ship British Pub & Restaurant, 1120 W.17th St., in Santa Ana. Showtime 12 noon-10 p.m. Admission $20. ($5. off with any accredited Blues Society I.D.). $2. from the sale of each ticket goes to the Santa Ana High School Band.
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MUMBAI: Bollywood veteran Om Puri is back as George Khan in the cross-cultural comedy �West is West'. Om Puri along with co-star Ila Arun enjoyed a hot t??te-? -t??te with Dilliwallas at 92.7 BIG FM's Delhi studios. The duo visited the studios to promote their much awaited film �West is West.' The movie is a sequel to the hilarious English film �East is East' and is all set to hit Indian theatres come April 2011.
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* Says Phase 3 policy likely to be out in 3 months * Announces creation of fourth category of locations for Phase 3 licensing * Says AIR working on snippets of news bulletins for Private FM * AROI President Anurradha Prasad urges Advertising Industry to support Radio
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* BM Group, Thrive Entertainment, L.L.C; S. Raj Entertainment of USA, IVNO Events and Production partner with Netsurf Entertainment *Concert proceeds to be donated to Mana Shetty's NGO Save the Children India MUMBAI: After Bryan Adams, Netsurf gives India its second international concert by staging Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum artist Akon a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter and producer. Akon will perform live in Gurgaon on 16th April at Huda Grounds and Bengaluru on 17th April at Gayatri Vihar, Palace Grounds.
read moreMUMBAI: Last week, Fever Kolkata was announced as the official radio partner of the Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL Season IV. This is the second consecutive IPL season for the station. For IPL, Fever will host a series of on-air and on-ground promotional initiatives for the listeners in Kolkata. With this relationship, Fever listeners can look forward to some great on-air content along with some exciting and rewarding on-air activities.
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MUMBAI: Bollywood playback singer Sonu Nigam and tabla maestro Bickram Ghosh have decided to team up as composer, and their first film together will be Jal directed by Girish Malik and co-produced by NFDC. The film revolves around the scarcity of water and the resultant problems in Kutch. The newly formed composer-duo will record the film's title song with the legendary Shubha Mudgal. Sonu has also written the lyrics of this song, playing on the word jal (water) - Jalde, jalde, jaldi jalde, jalne na de, jal hi jal de!
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*Hugh Jackman, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, Vidya Balan, honoured at the FICCI Frames Excellence Honours 2011. MUMBAI: The 12th edition of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) concluded at The Renaissance, Powai with the FICCI Frames Excellence Awards 2011, on Friday, 25th March 2011 The FICCI Frames Excellence Honours along with Wizcraft International Entertainment celebrated the excellence across four major entertainment verticals music, radio, television and cinema.
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MUMBAI: They are the new hot pair in town! Although they belong to a gang named F.A.L.T.U, they are already making waves with their infectious energy, cool charisma and good looks. The lead stars of F.A.L.T.U, Jackky Bhagnani and Puja Gupta visited Mirchi's morning show �Hi Mumbai' and had a blast with RJ Jeeturaaj and Mirchi listeners on Thursday morning.
read moreMUMBAI: Media Music Now, a leading UK company in royalty free music, voice overs and audio production services has launched its revamped website aimed at helping audio-visual producers with their soundtrack requirements. The new website has taken over twelve months of planning and development. It has been completely rebuilt and redesigned with enhanced features and improved functionality. Media Music Now is also one of the first royalty free music companies to use cloud technology to improve content delivery to its global client-base.
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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: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
MUMBAI: Singer, songwriter and composer Samarth Swarup is all set to release his highly anticipated EP, "Sama." In an exclusive interview with...read more
MUMBAI: Following the recent grand announcement by the makers of the action spectacle ‘Devara: Part 1’ starring Man Of Masses NTR Jr, excitement...read more
MUMBAI: After the tremendous success of his debut track "Tere Vaaste," Varun Jain, the promising singing sensation and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner...read more
MUMBAI: Filipino-American singer-songwriter and producer Tim Atlas, who boldly blends elements of R&B, neo-soul, alternative, and bedroom pop,...read more
MUMBAI: Rockshots Records is proud to present Auro Control, a new Brazilian band dedicated to excellent Prog/Power Metal. With its fast, precise,...read more
