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MUMBAI: Musician Munawar Faruqui recently announced his latest masterpiece, ‘Dhandho’ marking his first release post-Bigg Boss 17 win.
read moreMUMBAI: Sony’s cellphone division Sony Mobile Communications is cutting about 1,000 jobs or 15 per cent of its global workforce over the next two years (March 2014) in an effort to reduce costs and boost profits. The company said in a statement that out of the 1,000 job cuts 650 would be from Lund mobile phone plant in Sweden, while the remaining reductions will be primarily consultants in Sweden.
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MUMBAI: American thrash metal band Slayer will crash and burn at the annual festival 'Rock 'N India 2012’ on 20 October at Bangalore. The two-time Grammy winner band is a pioneer in the genre and is considered as one of the ‘Big Four’ trash metal acts along with Anthrax, Metallica and Megadeth, since they entered the US charts with their third album Reign of Blood (1986). The band has six Gold (5, 00,000 copies sold) and one platinum album (one million copies sold).
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Spinning its magic for almost two decades, American rock band Korn is looking forward to take India by storm through its first ever three-city tour in the country. The maiden tour which is scheduled to take place from 5 September will span across music hubs like Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru.
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MUMBAI: Irish band U2, British singer Elton John, rockers Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen along with Spanish tenor Placido Domingo are among those invited to celebrate the end of the Mayan calendar on 21 December 2012 by the Guatemala government. The invite list for the 'World Summit for Humanity’ held on this day also includes Sting, Armenian metal group System of a Down, Janet Jackson, world leaders, thinkers, philosophers and scientists, reports an European news agency.
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MUMBAI: Indian Idol season 6 top three contestants Devendra Pal Singh, Vipul Mehta and Amit Kumar along with participant Poorvi Koutish will record a music album on Universal Music India. Acclaimed composer Shameer Tandon, songwriter Sameer and the top three finalists have come together for a song 'Pal' that captures the moment of victory and maps out the poignant journey of the contestants throughout Indian Idol 6. 'Pal' will be premiered as the 'Indian Idol Winners single' at the penultimate episode and will air on Sony Television on 25 August 2012.
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MUMBAI: Salman Khan can be described as an elephant in the jungle who goes about his way without giving a thought on who is around, music director Sajid Ali says.
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MUMBAI: In a bid to pay tribute to legendary playback singer Mukesh on his 36th death anniversary, Bollywood music channel ‘9X Jalwa’ has planned special programming on 27 August. The channel will air legend’s timeless tunes and series of short musical shows throughout the day.
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MUMBAI: Percept Limited's event arm Percept Live is all set to invest 20 million dollars over the next three years to globalize its ‘Sunburn’ brand. The brand, built on its internationally known annual Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festival- ‘Sunburn Fest’- will be expanded to include festivals, arena gigs, club events, setting up sunburn bars and clubs, stores and cafes.
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MUMBAI: Exploiting digital medium to its core and spreading the popularity of Coke Studio@MTV- season 2, Sony Music today launched an app that hosts the show's episodes, audio, artiste profiles and twitter feeds amongst others. This app is available on android phones on the PlayStore and will be available on the iOS platform across the globe. It is embedded with social media allowing users to share what they are listening to on Facebook and Twitter.
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MUMBAI: The afterglow of the London Olympics 2012 is bathing the artists who performed at the recently concluded global event. British singer Emile Sande who performed at the opening ceremony has his album ‘Our Version of Events’ at number four in the top 200 list. Ed Sheeran’s album ‘+’ is lodging at number three and Jesse J’s ‘Who you Are’ is perched at number seven.
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MUMBAI: Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber will play a cameo in the new season of famous animated show ‘The Simpsons’. The singer will be featured as himself in the show wherein he will be shown as participant in a talent contest along with Bart Simpson. Confirming the news, ‘The Simpsons’ executive producer Al Jean said, “He tries to get into a talent show that Bart is playing piano in and they won't admit him. Draw your own conclusions... It's a cameo, but all of his fans should watch every minute of the show, before and after he's on.”
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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
MUMBAI: Vianet Media, founded by Mr.read more
MUMBAI: Google initiated testing of the 'hum to search' feature in late 2023 on its YouTube Musicread more
