|  26 Feb 2024

Mumbai, get ready! It's time for the ‘Divine Time’ Tour!

MUMBAI: Kya bolti Mumbai ki Public? Your favourite gully boy, DIVINE is coming to your city! Saregama Live and Gully Gang bring to you DIVINE Time India 2024 with Zomato Live as the exclusive ticketing partner.

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 |  20 Nov 2010

Taylor Swift - Must be a Sagittarius thing

One from the heart. From Taylor Swift. The biggest music superstar since… all of them. At least in the last ten years, and definitely in terms of sales and media acclaim. Meet the person behind the youth icon through a peep into her mind, in her own words. A rare treat, considering the quality of her writing is way beyond both -- her years and the success any other contemporary lyricist could ever dream of. Musings from the gigantically tall and over-talkative... star of the brilliant and brilliantly successful album Speak Now.

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 |  08 Nov 2010

Radi-Oh: Nupur of Radio Misty - the 'kid' who proved 'em wrong

What does Nupur Agarwal of Radio Misty have in common with Amitabh Bachchan?

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 |  14 Jul 2010

Mumbai FM players clear stand on Marathi music; musicians still unhappy

MUMBAI: Irked by the fact that most of the radio stations in the city refuse to give air time to Marathi music, political party Shiv Sena on Saturday, issued a warning to all FM players in Mumbai to start airing Marathi songs within seven days or else 'face the music.'

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 |  16 Jan 2010

Recurring theme - musicians inured to mishandling of instruments

MUMBAI: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan may have been the unfortunate victim of an indifferent airline's mismanagement of luggage, but he's definitely not alone. His misadventure, in fact, finds resonance among several in the music fraternity who travel by air for concerts and performances.

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 |  05 Jan 2010

Rewind '09 - Bollywood tracks that ruled FM airwaves in '09

MUMBAI: FM commercial stations took on the differentiation element seriously in 2009 by introducing variety in its music inventory. Breaking away from contemporary Bollywood clutter and embracing differential music seemed to be the mantra for many stations.

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 |  05 Jan 2010

Rewind '09 - Music losses of 2009

MUMBAI: The music world saw an upheaval as some of the important names in the world of music bid good bye to us. As far as international music goes, one of the foremost names is Michael Jackson who passed away in June. Another stellar name of the pop music world, Stephen Gately of Boyzone bid adieu. The world of Indian classical music faced its biggest blow as two prominent names - Ustad Akbar Ali Khan and Gangubai Hangal, breathed their last.

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 |  04 Jan 2010

Rewind '09 - Top 10 original Bollywood songs of '09

MUMBAI: These are the ultimate must have's on your iPod, for they are aren't just the hummable ones, but tracks that we feel will stand the test of time, and will remain on your playlist way beyond 2010 too.

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 |  23 Dec 2009

2010 set for surfeit of music awards

MUMBAI: The coming year may give a much needed boost to the music fraternity as three different music awards: the Mirchi music awards (that started in 2008), IMA or Indian Music Academy Awards which is patronized by the likes of Pt. Jasraj and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, and another Indian Music Awards, which is conceptualized by four music driven media professionals - gear up to recognise talent.

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 |  11 Nov 2009

Call 'em for the music

MUMBAI: They are the ones that create the music we keep playing on our phones and ipods. It's their tunes that make their way into a million cell phones as ring tones and caller ring back tones. Ever wonder what the singers, composers and lyricists from the sprawling music industry in India think about that biggest revenue generator on the horizon - the CRBT? Ever wonder if they themselves subscribe to the service, and hey, do they play their own compositions?

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 |  02 Oct 2009

Music honours - too little, too late?

MUMBAI: Singing legend Manna Dey's contribution to music has been finally recognised by the nation at the age of 90 with the conferring of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2007 for his outstanding contribution to the field of cinema.

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 |  05 Sep 2009

Bollywood music - Reeling it in

Is Hindi film music, which takes the biggest pie of the music industry in India, getting better or worse over the years? Music has always been the soul food of the Hindi film industry, often creating hits or flops out of the tunes that marked the story.

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