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MUMBAI: Baggy jeans and Timberlands for everybody! Toronto hip hop - funk connoisseur John Orpheus teleports us back to the salad days of the late 20th century on his new single, “90’s Fool.” And young and old alike take notice: What we have here is a throwback with real pull.
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MUMBAI: English Indie punk band Modern Mafia have stepped into bollywood and Tamil film industry with their composition in the movie ‘David’. Their track 'Arnie' has been reworked as ‘Bandhay’ in Hindi and ‘Machi’ in Tamil.
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MUMBAI: After attaining success with its first broadcast project Hummra M, Complete News and Entertainment Broadcast Pvt Ltd (CNEB) and Launch Pad have joined hands yet again to enter the Punjab market with another regional channel. Slated to launch within a month, the channel will be based on similar lines as the Bhojpuri music channel with animated characters as its USP and playing hit Punjabi film music. Apart from that, 2013 will also witness the company’s entry into other markets like Orissa and Bengal.
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MUMBAI: After a short hiatus, former Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Integrated Media head Niloufer Dundh is back with her new venture ‘Ventes Dundh’, having already bagged three projects in its kitty. Speaking with Radioandmusic.com, Dundh said, “French is close to my heart so ‘Ventes’ which means sales and rest is my surname”, explaining about the name she chose for the venture.
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MUMBAI: India’s largest radio network, Red FM, recently repositioned its Bengaluru radio station as a ‘24/7 SuperHits Hindi’ station to cater to the listeners’ preference for Hindi music over regional music.
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MUMBAI: After six years, 31- year-old Grammy award winning singer Justin Timberlake released his new single, 'Suit and Tie', also featuring rapper Jay-Z, on 13 January . The song is the first release of Timberlake's forthcoming album, The 20/20 Experience due to be out later this year. The single under Sony Music is available on iTunes Store. It is written by Timberlake along with Timbaland, Shawn Carter, Jerome 'J-ROC' Harmon and James Flauntleroy while it is produced by Timbaland, Timberlake and Harmon.
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MUMBAI: As Bombay Jayashri makes wave with nomination of Oscar, controversy has surrounded this Carnatic vocalist, after Irayimman Thampi trust have accused Jayashri's 'Pi's Lullaby' of not being an original composition, meanwhile, she denies the allegation. As per agency, Jayashri said, “I can only say that I wrote whatever that came to my heart.”
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MUMBAI: Australian actor Hugh Jackman won the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy Sunday for his all-singing role in musical adaptation "Les Miserables." Jackman beat fellow nominees Jack Black in "Bernie," Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook," Ewan McGregor in "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and Bill Murray in "Hyde Park on Hudson." In his acceptance speech, Jackman -- praised for his vocal skills in the movie -- revealed that he almost gave up the starring role of Jean Valjean only a few weeks before it started filming.
read moreNEW DELHI: Webcasting of news of All India Radio along with FM Gold is expected to commence within the next month or two. Simultaneously, All India is also commencing webcast of its Urdu service which has been very popular with the listeners. Asked about the budget for webcasting news along with FM Gold, AIR Director General L D Mandloi told Radioandmusic.com that AIR already had the necessary infrastructure in place for this.
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MUMBAI: Big FM, Chennai's No. 1 Music station and winner of the Golden Mikes Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2012 brought out a unique initiative to add zest to the Pongal festivities.
read moreMUMBAI: With constant innovations up their sleeves, All India Radio is ensuring all its stations move ahead in 2013 with unique strategies. Its Manjeri station in Kerala has gone down the path of change by employing student broadcasters for its programmes. The station has selected a team of 26 students from across eight higher secondary schools in the Malappuram district. Having a journalism background, the students have been roped in to cover the annual ‘All Kerala Youth State Schools Festival’ from 14-20 January.
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MUMBAI: Adnan Sami who has been gearing up for the release of his newest album 'Press Play' after a 5 year hiatus, was alarmed to find that his album was leaked online earlier today. The album Press play was one of the most awaited releases of this year by both his fans and the music industry.
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MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
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
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