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MUMBAI: Nashville Harbor/Harpeth 60 Records multi-Platinum selling artist, Chris Janson, has just announced summer dates for his captivating and lively, Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Tour.
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MUMBAI: After being out of bollywood music scene for a while, renowned music composer Anu Malik is back again with some big banner projects Malik has recently composed for the film ‘Ye Jo Mohabbat Hai’ produced by Ashim Samanta. The film’s music album comprises of tracks of various styles including romantic ballads, peppy numbers and poetries by Anand Bakshi. Apart from vocals by Shaan, Mohit Chauhan and Neeraj Shridhar, the film also has a peppy number ‘Big Fat Indian Wedding’ rendered by Malik’s daughter Anmol.
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MUMBAI: Music maestro AR Rahman leads the list of nominations in the film music category for the third edition of the Global Indian Music Academy (GIMA) Awards with a total of seven nods for his exceptional work in the film 'Rockstar'. Rahman has bagged the nominations for Best Music Arranger & Programmer (Sadda Haq), Best Background Score, two nods for Best Playback Singer Male along with Javed Ali and Mohit Chauhan (Kun Faaya Kun and Nadaan Parindey), Best Music Director, Best Film Song (Nadaan Parindey) and Best Film Album.
read moreMUMBAI: Indian internet company Nimbuzz has announced its entry into the league of the top 20 most reached internet companies in the mobile and web communications space by crossing the 100 million user landmark. It is the first India-headquartered company to cross the mark. The company states that it managed to achieve the feat because of the traffic driven by its offering on bringing voice, video, data sharing and social chat on a single platform.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Music India has released Sri Lankan Hip Hop and R&B artist Ashanthi’s new single ‘Let’s give peace a chance’ as the official song for the De PaixYatra initiative - a motorbike journey from India to England. The initiative organized to promote World Peace will flag off on 11 August in Mumbai. The single, available for mobile downloads and on digital platforms, will be later followed by a compilation album featuring songs of `peace’ as an accompaniment to the De PaixYatra project.
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MUMBAI: American R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys will debut a track ‘Crazy’ from her upcoming album during her performance in the star-studded 2012 Video Music Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on 6 September. Performing for the fifth time, Keys admits that she is more excited and confident than ever to share her new music with not only her fans, but the entire VMA audience. This will be the second time that the R&B singer will debut her new material on VMA, earlier in 2007, Keys had performed her hit single ‘No One’ at the awards.
read moreMUMBAI: Strengthening its foothold in US market, music streaming service Spotify has further extended the availability of its new radio feature from iOS app on iPhone and iPad to the android devices. The new radio feature for android will allow users to create a station based on an artist, album or playlist, similar to Pandora. Users can also save any song they hear on radio stations for later listening through ‘Liked from Radio’ playlist feature.
read moreMUMBAI: Stepping up on the competition with Apple Inc's iTunes, Amazon.com Inc has announced licensing agreements with various music publishers and distributors for its new scan-and-match digital music service. The new service will store the matching version of tracks found from the user’s computer on the cloud platform. The company has signed a deal with top companies like Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The licenses will allow Amazon to create new versions of customers' digital music files.
read moreMUMBAI: Spikes Asia, the annual award and festival for creative excellence in advertising and communications, has announced the jury members for its digital and mobile category.
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MUMBAI: BBC Tamil radio will showcase nine-part weekly series on the life of the Muslim community living in Tamil Nadu. The series will launch on 5 August on BBC radio and its online website. Along with the programme’s audio and text, the website will feature picture galleries depicting the lives of the muslims of Tamil Nadu.
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MUMBAI: Bringing the Princess of Pop’s magic to her Indian fans, Big CBS Spark will air 'Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas' concert on 4 and 5 August at 8pm. The concert will showcase 15 of Spears biggest hits from her three multi-platinum albums including ‘Baby one more time’, ‘Oops... I did it again’, ‘I’m a Slave 4 U’ and ‘Britney’. The concert will witness Spears’ various acts from bungee jumping to playing a jewellery box ballerina and from running through a row of fire trees to singing in the rain.
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MUMBAI: International karaoke event, ‘McDowell’s No 1 Karaoke World Championship’ is back in its second year,scheduled to be held in Finland in November. This year the auditions for the competition have extended to over 15 cities and 30 venues, culminating in September. The winners stand a chance to bag prizes worth Rs 18 lakhs with one male and female winner getting opportunity to win an all expense paid trip to Finland along with their group of friends.
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MUMBAI: Pacha Ibiza’s legendary Flower Power is back again this season, reimagined for a new era while staying true to its core essence. Every...read more
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