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MUMBAI: He is a regular in the Madhur Bhandarkar stable having composed music for his trilogy Traffic Signal, Page 3, Corporate and Jail. Corporate turned music director Shamir Tandon has been in the media glare for having composed track with the legendary musician Lata Mangeshkar for Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail. The musician who scored music for Acid Factory, Aamras and Jail last year has an impressive line up for the year.
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MUMBAI: India's first writer led band 'Nine' will make its debut at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai on 12 February 2010. The band is led by veteran journalist and Bollywood lyricist Neelesh Misra and features singer Shilpa Rao as the band's lead vocalist
read moreMUMBAI: All India Radio (AIR) has placed an order for the supply of two 1000 kilowatt DRM capable medium wave transmitters. These will replace old analogue transmitters of same capacity at Chinsurah (West Bengal) and Rajkot (Gujarat), with state-of-the-art solid state transmitters. The new Megawatt transmitters can be operated in analogue, in simulcast or in DRM mode with automatic change-over between these three operational modes. The transmitters shall provide coverage to very large areas in the Indian sub-continent as well to the West, North, East and Southeast Asia.
read moreMUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) shortwave broadcasters' meeting in Kuala Lumpur on 2 Febuary, has renewed its support for the creation of a monitoring network to assess the reach and quality of their broadcasts. The backing came at a meeting of the Steering Committee of the ABU Shortwave Coordination Group, ABU-HFC. Over the past few years the committee has been looking into the development of a monitoring unit. Audio monitoring within the ABU-HFC would be a bilateral process, with ABU providing its support at no extra cost.
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MUMBAI: Grammy award winning Indian musician A R Rahman has joined voices with some of the biggest names in the music industry like Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Barbara Streisand and Kanye West to record a cover of Michael Jackson's peace anthem 'We Are The World'. The 44-year-old singer-composer who picked up two golden gramophones over the weekend, headed straight to the studio afterwards to record the song which will help raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, along with 80 other artistes .
read moreMUMBAI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) is looking to have international music acts for the third edition of the event. On his Twitter account IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi reveals that they are trying to get Akon to India. He says that with his new album, the singer should be a hit in the country. This will probably be for the opening ceremony.
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MUMBAI: After a successful stint down South, composer G V Prakash is all set to make his mark on Bollywood. The young composer will score the music of Shirish Kunder's directorial debut Alien Sahib staring John Abraham. Contrary to media reports doing the rounds, the musician denied that he would be composing music for Farah Khan's Tees Mar Khan staring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. "I am composing for Shirish's maiden directorial venture Alien Sahib and not Tees Maar Khan," he corrected. The composer will start working on the film from August this year.
read moreMUMBAI: British advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), has banned a radio ad featuring a man speaking loudly in German and the voice over asking, "Is your boss a bit of a tyrant?" Thirteen complaints were filed for the ad for recruitment firm Reed which was banned by the ASA for using 'outdated stereotypes' and implying Germans were tyrants. It banned the ad for breaching rules on good taste and decency.
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MUMBAI: Legendrary sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar has become the latest musician to have floated an independent music label, called East Meets West Music (EMWMusic) In the last couple of years, many prominent Indians musicians have commenced venturing into the music business on their own, mostly due to growing dissatisfaction with the way big music labels in the country function
read moreNEW DELHI: Employees of All India Radio and Doordarshan have resumed their agitation for repeal of the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act 1990 on the ground that the experiment has proved financially unviable and the decision to treat employees in service (as on 5 October 2007) as deemed government employees will create different cadres.
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MUMBAI: Kolkata based tabla genius Pandit Tanmoy Bose, who has performed with the likes of Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan released his new album Baul N Beyond recently. The most interesting part of this album is that Bose explores one of the most native forms of music Speaking about what drove him to this music, Bose says, "I could find a connection between Folk, Jazz, Indian classical music paired with the timeless philosophies of the Baul music. However, it's unfortunate that people are not aware of our indigenous genres."
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MUMBAI: In an exclusive interview with Radioandmusic, the co-founders of TealFeel, a conscious lread more
MUMBAI: First track under the deal extension is the upcoming actor Siddhant Chaturvedi and Oaff...read more
MUMBAI: In response to the rising stress and fast-paced lifestyle that has made smoking a common read more
MUMBAI: TuneCore, the leading development partner for self-releasing artists - owned by Believe, read more
MUMBAI: IPRS (The Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd.), the forefront organization in safeguarread more
MUMBAI: Frequent collaborators and industry pioneers, German producers Tube & Berger and Nick Schwenderling unite with Seattle-based musician...read more
MUMBAI: Bringing Delhi’s Vibrancy to Los Angeles: The Inspiration Behind "BILLO"Subhi’s latest music video, "BILLO," has successfully captured the...read more
The former Berklee roommates bring a zany freshness to a contemporary pop tune, highlighting why they are two highly rated young musicians today read more
MUMBAI: Jaguar On Mars is the new project from Jacob Cade, whose songwriting and musical mixtures have been lauded by publications like American...read more
