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MUMBAI: The 6th Edition of Asia’s biggest and most desirable dance music and lifestyle festival - Sunburn Goa 2012 – kicks off tomorrow, December 27th. The festival, a Percept property, is Asia’s Premier dance music festival and is ranked as the 9th best music festival in the world. Sunburn Goa 2012 - Day 1: Schedule - December 27, 2012
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MUMBAI: Windsong Music Festival – an alternate, original Indian live music festival concluded on 25 December amidst much fanfare at Baga Grounds, Goa. Percept Live who has been the forerunner in the evolution of the Indian music festival scenario in India has launched this festival to support and grow the Indian live music scene, Indian bands and Indian talent.
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MUMBAI: Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Shootout At Wadala’ will feature three songs by music composer Anu Malik while Meet Brothers and Anand Raj Anand have also composed tunes for the film. Speaking with Radioandmusic.com Malik said, “I have completed two songs and am working on third one presently. Mostly people are considering this as my comeback film but I had never gone anywhere to comeback.”
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MUMBAI: Become a part of the NCPA’s One World Many Musics annual festival which has featured musical youth icons like Indian Ocean, Midival Punditz and Shri among others. Interpret “One World Many Musics” in your musical style & Win* a chance to perform @ the NCPA OWMM 2013 before the main concert by Shubha Mudgal & band Koshish. Rules of Participation: • All members of the participating band must be students & must have a valid college ID • Each band can have a maximum of 8 members
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Guitars are buzzing, cymbals crashing, bass guitars creating walls of doom as indie rock explodes all over the country. With bands mushrooming all over, it gets more difficult to stand out- talent wise and stylistically. Mumbai’s four-piece alternative pop rock band Modern Mafia manages to do that- playing their pop flavoured urban rock- at studios, live shows opening for Metallica, playing at the NH7, Pune and we guess at their basements.
read moreMUMBAI: The ground breaking electro-pop act feat Rakshit of Sky Rabbit, Your Chin from Mumbai will be doing a 45 Minute set for the night. Not just this, the party also gets ELVIS RUMION’s ‘Charlie and the Music Factory’ - with its signature hard driving sound: a combination of soulful vocals, muscular instrumentation and forceful rock melodies. The list doesn’t end here, in addition to some surprise artist performances; this party offers free entry to all the party animals. Also, anyone who attends this event will get a 10% discount on the LFTC Goa festival ticket.
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MUMBAI: Winner of BAFTA award and Oscar nominated composer, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett passed away on Christmas Eve (24 December) in New York. Aged 76, Bennett was a composer of classical and jazz music, regularly performing as a jazz pianist and regarded as being one of the most accomplished jazz pianists of his generation. His major works included three symphonies and an opera, The Mines of Sulphur and Reflections on a Scottish Folk Song for cello and string orchestra, which was commissioned by Prince Charles to commemorate his grandmother the Queen.
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NEW DELHI: Epoch-making South Indian composer Ilayaraja is among nine artistes from the field of music who will receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2012, while Grammy Award-winning percussionist TH Vinayakram and veteran playwright Ratan Thiyam are among three personalities chosen for the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship. The Akademi has selected 36 persons from the fields of music, dance, theatre and puppetry for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2012.
read moreNEW DELHI: All India Radio does not have any FM stations in 160 of the cities included in Phase III license auctions. According to the ‘Poised for Growth: FM radio in India’ study by Confederation of Indian Industry and Ernst & Young, Prasar Bharati proposes to provide FM transmitters with programme production facilities at 20 of these cities. This scheme has been proposed in the Twelfth Plan, subject to availability of funds. Consequently, AIR FM Radio requires more than 500 transmitters to increase its coverage to more than 80 per cent of the country.
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MUMBAI: Asia’s premier dance music festival Sunburn has partnered with content aggregator Techzone to create a WAP page offering users access to international music and informative content on the fest. The fest will offer a single platform titled ‘Playground’ store, through which music aficionados can browse and download tracks from a library of over 2,00,000 songs from major labels like Universal Music Group and Sony Music International. As part of the association, the WAP page allows fans unlimited free access for three days.
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NEW DELHI: Singer and performer Raja Baath who had earlier launched ‘Chaska’ with rap singer Honey Singh (also known as Yo! Yo! Honey Singh), has now launched a punjabi single ‘Yaari’ under his own production company RB Entertainers. The pre-production work for this solo track related to music and direction has been handled by the singer himself and the lyrics are by Pali. The single has been launched in both audio and video format.
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MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) delivered impressive first-quarter earnings that surpassed exread more
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group and TikTok have announced a new licensing agreement, marking the enread more
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MUMBAI: Percept Live, creators of Asia’s largest dance music festival ‘Sunburn’ and India’s first BDM show ‘Bollyboom’, has announced a tie up with ‘...read more
MUMBAI: Musician Munawar Faruqui recently announced his latest masterpiece, ‘Dhandho’ marking his first release post-Bigg Boss 17 win. Created in...read more
MUMBAI: Canadian-based sensation Jerry is set to redefine the Punjabi music scene with his ground-breaking debut album, 'RAW”. With a string of...read more
MUMBAI: Fresh off the thunderous success of his hit track "Block" and blowing off the internet trends with ‘Up To U’, the prolific artist Dhanda...read more
MUMBAI: Witness the blurring of lines between reality and fiction in antiSOCIAL Pune's latest immersive theatrical production. In a world weary of...read more
