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Coachella would cost approximately $2.98 per performing artist this year, according to a new study. Summerfest is named the best-value festival for 2024, costing approximately $0.62 per performing artist. Stagecoach Country Music Festival ranks last for value, se
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MUMBAI: Electro-pop duo LMFAO are all set to co-host and perform at the Much Music Video Awards on 17 June in Toronto. The hit-making pair comprising of Redfoo and SkyBlu will join Katy Perry for the ceremony. LMFAO will perform some of their hit tracks like ‘Party Rock Anthem’ and ‘Sexy and I Know It’. Additional performers and presenters will be announced on a later date. LMFAO said, “Canada is the first place LMFAO went number one, and now the first place we will host an award show. It’s going to be a night you won't forget.”
read moreMUMBAI: Maintaining its foothold in the digital marketing space, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment has been conferred with the ‘Preferred Marketing Developer’ badge by Facebook. The agency provides page management and publishing, community management, applications development, social plug-ins, advertising, monitoring and reporting on social media specific to Facebook.
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MUMBAI: Sufi singer Kavita Seth will perform a concert with her band Karwaan and release a meditational album on 10 June at Bhavans Cultural Centre, Andheri. Titled ‘Anandotsav’, the concert will celebrate the spirit of life through music and witness the revival of the band featuring Seth and its other Iranian members. The singer will also unveil a meditational CD titled ‘Om’ comprising of spiritual chants like ‘Krishna Mantra’ and mantras from the Bhagvad Gita. The album will release on Saregama.
read moreMUMBAI: Things seemed to be moving in the HT Media vs T-Series legal tussle. HT Media had last year filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against T-Series alleging that the latter was charging unreasonable royalties to radio casters for music being played on their stations. According to a source in HT Media, the CCI called in the company's representative to hear its point of view yesterday. " The investigation is at a very preliminary stage and a formal inquiry is yet to commence,” the official said.
read moreMUMBAI: Qello, the streaming HD concert films and music documentary application, is expanding its extensive library with content from EMI Music, one of the world's largest music companies. Qello provides music lovers with a sleek and carefully curated application to stream and watch long-form concerts and brilliant music documentaries on demand, in high definition, across multiple touch points, including mobile phones, tablets, Smart TVs, and the web.
read moreMUMBAI: MTV today announced that comedian, actor and TV personality Russell Brand will take the "MTV Movie Awards" stage for the first time as host when the show airs live on Sunday, June 3rd at 9 pm ET/PT on MTV from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Brand will build upon his triple-threat skill set to give viewers a new, off-the-cuff and unique spin on the past year's biggest films and hottest stars. "This MTV Movie Awards will be more impressive than The Avengers and you won't have to wait an hour for someone to Hulk out," said Russell Brand.
read moreMUMBAI: A singer, guitarist, performer, music composer & producer. MTV and VH1 will air his latest music video 'Lonely I'm Crying' ‘Lonely I’m Crying’ is a song about loneliness, a feeling that anyone can relate to as it’s a universal theme. The song talks about any 'child' who is lonely. But the word 'child' used in the song is a metaphor for any individual -- rich or poor, young or old.
read moreMUMBAI: Renowned contemporary dance company Nritarutya and global music phenomenon Raghu Dixit are off to London to see The Queen. The artists have been invited to perform at the very special pageant to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen of England at Windsor Castle in England on the 13th of May 2012.
read moreMUMBAI: Community radio station promoters are groaning and saying ouch!!! The Information and Broadcasting ministry has as of late March hiked the annual royalty from Rs 19,000 to Rs 91,000 for using the spectrum for broadcasting. Community radio station representative recently met up with I&B ministry reps to voice their protest.
read moreMUMBAI: After Saavn, Gaana and Spotify music streaming site Dhingana has broadened its reach and launched a music app on facebook timeline. The app will enable users to share and add their music on timeline and discover new songs. The integration will allow users to receive music posts and play buttons shared by friends in news feeds and ticker.
read moreMUMBAI: Recognizing and applauding the excellence in regional music, Big FM has announced its first ever music awards ‘Big Hindustan Regional Music Awards’ for the Hindi Heartland. The singers from UP, MP, Bihar and Jharkhand will be awarded in categories like Bhojpuri, Bundelkhandi, Thumri and other regional genres.
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