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MUMBAI: To provide a humour-filled recap of the year, Big FM recently launched a campaign titled ‘Sabse Happy New Year’ with popular stand-up comedians Bharti Singh, VIP and Dr Sanket Bhosale. The segment airs at regular intervals throughout the day across its 31 HSMs, taking listeners on a laughter-inducing recap of the year gone by.
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Mumbai: As the 21st century enters its teens, it's an occasion to raise a toast to the carefree, vibrant, all conquering spirit of the teens as you experience the josh of youth in all its glory only at Sayaji. Enjoy the New Year Party with a youthful spirit with renowned singer "JAVED ALI"of 'Ishaqzaade', 'Jab Takhain Jaan' and 'Po Po Po' fame at the Live in Concert "BREAK FREE" at Sayaji Hotel on 31st December, 12, 8:00 pm onwards.
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MUMBAI: Vh1 Club Class, presented by Tata Manza catches Alex Kuruvilla - managing director Conde Nast India this Sunday 30 December at 12 noon.
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MUMBAI: Over 50,000 fans were left spell bound after experiencing a sensational first day at Sunburn 2012. Sunburn, Asia’s biggest music festival, was back for its 6th edition at Candolim Beach with 32 mind numbing acts led by Dutch Trance ace DJ Sander van Doorn along with Grammy Nominee Brian Transeau (BT) who brought down the house with two adrenaline pumping sets that set an electrifying tone for the 3 day electronic dance music festival.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi won gold ingot at Midas Awards for its annual report 2011 – 12 titled Reimagining Radio.
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MUMBAI: Pop beauty Taylor Swift topped the list of 2012’s most charitable US celebs — by donating $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Swift topped ‘Top 20 Celebs Gone Good of 2012’ list of DoSomething.org, an organization that gets teens involved in social change. This year, she also became the youngest-ever recipient of the Robert. F Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award.
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MUMBAI: Percept has announced a three-year association with global video sharing giant YouTube for live streaming all Sunburn events on the popular website. As per reports, the association which includes all Sunburn properties – Sunburn Goa, Sunburn Mumbai and Sunburn Noida - will have the events live streamed to a global audience in more than 100 countries worldwide. Earlier also Sunburn had partnered with YouTube, both, in 2010 where Sunburn Goa was streamed live across 82 countries and the following year.
read moreMUMBAI: The headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon have its own community radio which shall serve listeners under the radius of 8 to 10 kilometers. It will broadcast issues pertaining to rational thinking, gender issues and various other situations that can be brought forward for the community welfare.
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Niche genres of music have been struggling to preserve their sounds ever since cable TV and internet invaded the country’s popular sound and visual scape. Two decades on, bastions of jazz and pop music, mainly in urban areas, are still thriving albeit smaller but more fanatical followers may who faithfully keep the fire burning.
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MUMBAI: 9X Jhakaas Music Yatra - the travelling musical platform by Maharashtra’s first Marathi music channel 9X Jhakaas, will air a unique musical show called Goonj. A complete treat for instrumental music lovers, Goonj will feature internationally acclaimed flutist Pravin Ghodkhindi and his son Shadaj Ghodkhindi. Goonj will premiere on 9X Jhakaas on Saturday, 29th December 2012 at 9pm and will also have a repeat telecast on Sunday, 30th December 2012 at 9 am and at 10 pm.
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Label: Sony Music Music: Vishal Bhardwaj Lyrics: Gulzar Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Ranjit Barot, Vishal Bhardwaj, Prem Dehati, Rekha Bhardwaj, Shankar Mahadevan, Mohit Chauhan, Master Saleem, Pankaj Kapur, Imran Khan and Umoja.
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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
