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MUMBAI: On Jan 1, 2009, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, India's hottest Radio station launched a new devotional show called Mirchi Devaragam with the goal of giving the Mirchi listeners an auspicious start to their day. As a progression of this ideology Radio Mirchi is providing its listeners in Chennai an exclusive opportunity of free �Tirupathi Darshan' by participating in a contest on this show.
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MUMBAI: Film composer and pianist Frank Ferrucci's new CD, Film Music Inspired by the Indian Railway, evokes a romantic and spiritual journey along the great Indian Railway by combining traditional Indian bansuri, tabla, sitar, and tambura with classic Western instruments. This cinematic music brings listeners on a journey from Mumbai and Calcutta to the Ganges, through Darjiling and Rajasthan to the Himalayas.
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MUMBAI: The Slumdog Millionaire track �Jai ho' has almost become an anthem in the country with composer A R Rahman picking up many awards for the compositions, the most recent being the coveted Oscar. Basking in the glory of the song is Vijay Prakash, the singer who has rendered the full throated �Jai Ho' at regular intervals in the track.
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MUMBAI: Justin-Uday are the latest in the line of professionals who have crossed over from the advertising world into the lanes of Bollywood with elan. With Sikandar, they make their big debut soon. Shortly after, they will begin work on Kunal Shivdasani's next project and also on a movie titled Fishbowl... which will have a complete seventies feel to it. The duo own twin studios -Riversound and Backwaters- designed by Didier Weiss, who also designed A R Rahman's studio.
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MUMBAI: Indian radio industry professionals have probably never had it so good. Big FM vice president programming Nirupam Sonu has been invited to be on the jury of the New York Festivals - 2009, judging the Radio Programming and Promotions category. Radio City Executive Vice President and National Head – Programming and Marketing Rana Barua and Nitesh Tiwari, executive creative director, Leo Burnett have also been selected to be on the judging panel of this category.
read moreMUMBAI: A comprehensive course designed to help struggling independent musicians gain better grounds in the music industry is now available at MusicIndustrySuccess.com. "Secrets To Making Money in the Music Industry" is a simple do-it-yourself tool that contains expert advice and industry inside information authored by Ty Cohen of Platinum Millennium Publishing, a music industry specialist firm.
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MUMBAI: The Pussycat Dolls go bollywood yet again by releasing a desi remix of Jai Ho..., which is the now-famous song played during the credits of the Academy Award winning film, Slumdog Millionaire. Last night during the 2009 Academy Awards, Jai Ho... won an Oscar for Best Original Song... beating out WALL-E's Down to Earth..., by Peter Gabriel, and O…Saya..., also of Slumdog Millionaire and by A.R. Rahman.
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MUMBAI: Big FM has announced the appointment of Ashwin Padmanabhan as its Delhi Station Director. Ashwin, who has been with the company since its inception, was holding charge as cluster director, Andhra Pradesh so far. His shift to Delhi comes in the wake of Manisha Tripathi's resignation from the post of Delhi station director recently. Tripathi had been looking after the Delhi station since August 2008, prior to which she was station director, Big FM Goa.
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Label - EMI Music India, Rating - 2.5 / 5, Various Artists - Grammy Nominations 2009 has an impressive list of artistes representing the year's pop and R&B scenes. The album features artistes like Katy Perry's mega-platinum 'I Kissed a Girl' to Duffy, Adele, Estelle, and M.I.A Sadly, the album doesn't have much for the rock music lovers, perhaps just one song 'Waiting In The Weeds' by the Eagles. And, to add, there's no John Mayer - who eventually went on to win the best pop vocal performance for his song 'Say' or
read moreNEW DELHI: No recruitment has been made in the Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service, started in 1990 to train a separate cadre of employees for All India Radio and Doordarshan. A Parliamentary Committee in a strongly-worded report also found that the kind of autonomy which ought to have been there "is not there in Prasar Bharati" and hoped the "Government and Prasar Bharati would move ahead from this point and work in harmony to strengthen the institution."
read moreMUMBAI: After selling music instruments for overseas partners Yamaha, the Nippon group now plans to expand its music business by starting the Yamaha School of Music in collaboration with Yamaha India Limited in a couple of years. "There is a lot of scope for music education business in India as we don't have many music institutes here," says Nippon Group promoter Chetan Acharya. We'll be doing that in partnership with Yamaha – they have music institutes world over....
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MUMBAI: BIG FM, one of India’s leading radio networks, presented the second edition of BIG IMPACread more
MUMBAI: BIG FM, India's leading radio network, successfully concludes the third season of 'Mairead more
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MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM, India’s leading private radio and entertainment network announced the fourtread more
MUMBAI: Mumbaikars, get ready to mosh! Seedhe Maut, the lyrical duo of Calm and Encore ABJ, are bringing the fire of Delhi's rap scene straight to...read more
MUMBAI: Mr. GNG is an India-Paris based rock band that specializes in exceptionally immersive Audio-Visual Rock Experiences. The band, featuring...read more
MUMBAI: Disruption, the powerhouse of Swedish metal, has just unleashed their long-awaited self-titled EP, delivering a sonic assault that promises...read more
