MUMBAI: After recently stunning the audience with his surprise performance alongside American music producer and DJ Marshmello at his Mumbai concert and unveiling his new collaboration with the artist, Singer-Songwriter Armaan Malik is set to dominate music charts once again with his new song tit
read moreMUMBAI: Ogilvy India has bagged the only gold metal in the Radio Category while Leo Burnett emerges as the top winner with 13 honours at the 2012 Creative Abby awards. Ogilvy India won gold for Tata Sky Poochne Mein Kya Jaata Hai-Siren, the agency also bagged one silver and seven bronze. Leo swept the Radio category with eight bronzes and five silvers. Other big winners include Grey India with two silvers and one bronze, Contract Advertising witn one silver and two bronze. In the Radio Craft category JWT grabbed four metals whereas Lingo took home three awards.
read moreMUMBAI: After enthralling audience with the EDM music last year, the summer dance festival ‘Submerge SuperNova’ is back in its second edition. The fest will be held on 22 April in Bangalore. The musical extravaganza will feature more than 20 artistes, including headlining acts by international artistes like Ferry Corsten and Eelke Kleijn (Netherlands), Daniel Haaksman, Coma and Ada (Germany). The fest will also witness performances by Midival Punditz, Pearl, B.L.O.T, Sanjay Dutta, Nawed Khan, Praveen Achary, Vachan Chinnappa, Vinayaka, Audio Units and more.
read moreMUMBAI: Sony Music’s song of the year ‘Kolaveri Di’ has bagged two prestigious honours at Creative Abbys awards in The Goafest 2012. The internet rage ‘Kolaveri Di’ was awarded Gold in the Direct category and Silver in the Digital and Interactive category. ‘Jack in the Box’ was the agency for both the campaigns.
read moreMUMBAI: Academy Award winner AR Rahman will be featured in the primetime series Oprah Winfrey’s next chapter, on a two-part special episode titled Oprah Travels to India. The show highlights Rahman‘s foundation KM Music Conservatory and features a performance with The KM Music Conservatory children’s choir. Capturing her first trip to the country, Oprah Travels to India is set to premiere on 22 April, 2012 at 8/9c on OWN with part 2 of the episode, Women of India, to air on 29 April.
read moreMUMBAI: ArtistAloud.com encouraged and applauded the best of independent music with its awards this year. ‘Beach Drum Remix - Original Saints’ by Miss Diamond DJ picked up the Best Song of the year. Rajnigandha Shekhawat for her song ‘Kevdo’ and Nishant Mudgal for his song ‘Sapna’ were awarded the Best Singer Male and Female respectively. The Best Group was bagged by Eka for the song name ‘Christmas – Feel it in the Air’ and singer Paadhai won in the Best Genre category for his song ‘Nilavudan Naan’ in Global.
read moreMUMBAI: Reliance Broadcast Network has announced its alliance with Punjabi music label Speed Records. Through this association, RBNL’s FM radio Big FM and television channel Big CBS Spark Punjabi will have access to the library of the Records. The alliance simultaneously gives Records a platform to wider its reach to a huge audience base in the region.
read moreMUMBAI: Saregama has released the music of historic marathi film ‘Ajintha’ that revolves around the history of Maharashtra. The music of the film is composed by Kaushal S Inamdar and penned by ND Mahanor. The album has variety of songs rendered by Kaushal Inamdar, Ravindra Sathe, Avdhoot Gupte and Suresh Wadkar amongst others.
read moreMUMBAI: Delhi’s electronic band Jalebee Cartel is all set to perform an opening act at the much awaited maiden tour of international EDM artiste ‘Fatboy Slim’ in India. Through the tour, ‘Fatboy Slim’ will also promote local talent on an international level creating a launch pad for the artistes. Dutch DJ Pixel Cheese who has collaborated with David Guetta and DJ Avicii will also perform at the after parties hosted for the British EDM artiste.
read moreMUMBAI: After a hiatus of one year, RJ Rachna is back on Radio City Bangalore with the breakfast show ‘Aithalakdi Morning’. The show serves up a new take on the happenings in the city along with a quirky sense of RJ Rachna’s humour. On-air from 7-11am, the show also features contests and celebrity interviews along with music. The show was earlier hosted by RJ Vinayak.
read moreMUMBAI: British soul singer Adele leads the nomination for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards in 18 categories. The ceremony will be aired live on 20 May from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Adele has received nods for Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist category and more. The lead single ‘Rolling in the Deep’ from the chartbuster sophomore album ‘21’ has ranked the UK singer as a contender in seven song categories.
read moreMUMBAI: After lending his voice for tracks like ‘Aye Shivani’ and ‘Munnabhai M.B.B.S’, Sanjay Dutt is all set to croon for his upcoming movie ‘Department’. Producers of the film, Viacom18 have decided to add an additional track in the movie which will be composed by Sandeep Chowta and feature Dutt as the USP. The video to be choreographed by Ahmed Khan will also feature Amitabh Bachchan and Rana Daggubati.
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