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MUMBAI: K-pop icon SEVENTEEN dropped their Best Album 17 IS RIGHT HERE with an avant garde music video for the lead single “MAESTRO.”
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MUMBAI: Mystery, Drama and a whole lot of scandal! Inkaar, the romantic crime film directed by Sudhir Misra is all set to cause a stir and now the movies’ music is available on Hungama.com Music Director Shantanu Moitra known for his score in films Parineeta, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi has composed 5 sensational tracks which are a combination of Sufi and Rock influences culminating in an unconventional and brilliant album.
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NEW DELHI: Punjabi rap singer Honey Singh, whose scheduled New Year’s Eve concert in Gurgaon had been cancelled after a police complaint alleging obscenity was filed apart from strongly worded comments on Facebook and Twitter, has claimed that the cancellation was only because of the gang rape incident in Delhi. Singh’s manager Anup Kumar claimed the cancellation was only in solidarity with the anguish over the gang rape incident.
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MUMBAI: After re-creating Rahman’s Vande Mataram for a bollywood music channel, world’s first Hindi a Cappella band Penn Masala is all set to perform across all Hard Rock Café (HRC) outlets in the country. They will perform on 4 January at HRC Mumbai. After Mumbai, Penn Masala is scheduled to play at HRC outlets in Pune (6 Jan), Hyderabad (9 Jan), Bangalore (10 Jan) and New Delhi (11 Jan).
read moreMUMBAI: Describing the trends of the year gone by, annual album sales in UK fell 11.2 per cent in 2012 as the market shrunk by a fifth, although singles sales hit a new high according to a report by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). According to their figures, sales of albums on CD declined 19.5 per cent year-on-year to 69.4mn in 2012, as combined volume sales of digital and physical albums fell overall by 11.2 per cent to 100.5mn.
read moreMUMBAI: There couldn’t have been a better way to embark on the music season in the New Year. Supported by the Alliance Francaise de Bombay and Alliance Francaise de Pune, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), India’s premiere art and culture institution, presents two chamber music concerts by three world-class musicians, Dmitry Sitkovetsky (Violin), Gerard Caussé (Viola) and Henri Demarquette (Cello) – the Sitkovetsky-Caussé-Demarquette Trio on January 9 and 10, 2013 at the NCPA.
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MUMBAI: Sir Ivan seems to have India grooving to his peace song, “Hare Krishna”. Now a global success, “Hare Krishna” has made its connection with the Indian audience. On the album “I Am Peaceman”, Sir Ivan spreads his message of peace through dance remakes of iconic anti-war songs inspired by the 1960’s, such as John Lennon’s Imagine, Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind, and Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth.
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MUMBAI: Unveiling his single after a span of 15 years recently, music maestro AR Rahman is all geared up to compose for a bilingual film titled ‘Kaavia Thalaivan’. To be directed by Vasanthabalan, the film will be shot in Tamil and Telugu. The Oscar winning composer will score all the tracks in the film, set to go on floors soon. It will star actor Siddarth in the main lead, who had last teamed up with the composer for a Tamil film ‘Boys’ in 2003 and ‘Aayutha Ezhuthu’ in 2004, and the hit Hindi film ‘Rang de Basanti’ in 2006.
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MUMBAI: Acclaimed violinist L Subramaniam will present music enthusiasts with a symphony of world music at the 21 edition of Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival. After a concert on 4 January in Mumbai, the last stop will be at Siri Fort in Delhi on 7 December.
read moreMUMBAI: In the six weeks leading up to Christmas, Haworth Music Centre ran a Facebook-based competition to win an Australian designed and made Maton Guitar. The winner was presented with his Maton EM325C acoustic guitar, just in time for Christmas, on December 21. Entries to the competition came from all over the world, with the only requirement being to ‘Like’ the Haworth Guitars Facebook page, and in 30 words or less say why they would like to win. The winning entry came from Brian Cameron.
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MUMBAI: Psy, who performed his hit song 'Gangnam Style' in Times Square, New York, for the US TV show Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, claimed that it could be the ending for Gangnam Style. The South Korean sensation, real name Park Jae-sang, said to MTV news “Being in Times Square on New Year’s Eve is already special - it’s the biggest stage in the universe - plus it’s my birthday, so, with all that, it may be the ending of ‘Gangnam Style’. “I mean, what better way to do it? It’s my biggest and most meaningful birthday.”
read moreNEW DELHI: The number of advertisers on FM radio has grown from 1,715 in 2005 to 5,581 in the period January to October 2012, while the number of brands has grown from 1,295 to 8,133 during the same period. Furthermore, the number of categories has risen from 285 in 2005 to 379 in January-October 2012 and the volume of hours has grown from 5,273 to 41,202 in the same period.
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MUMBAI: The worlds of art and technology have always had an intricate relationship, but in recenread more
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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
