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MUMBAI: Musician Munawar Faruqui recently announced his latest masterpiece, ‘Dhandho’ marking his first release post-Bigg Boss 17 win.
read moreYangaroo Inc., the industry's leading secure digital media distribution company, today announced a partnership with San Francisco based INgrooves, a leading provider of online retail distribution, marketing and promotion services to the global music and video community. The partnership provides Yangaroo's DMDS music and music video delivery services, at preferred prices, to the thousands of INgrooves clients via their recently upgraded Client Console.
read moreMUMBAI: With the onset of New year, the music and radio industry in Asia is advancing towards new technologies. On 1 January, Dhaka FM, the first commercial HD Radio station was inaugurated in Bangladesh.
read moreMUMBAI: Metal legends The Prodigy, Metallica and Black Sabbath will headline the 10th edition of year's first biggest music festival �Download 2012'. The three day fest will commence from 8 June 2012 at Donington Park in London. Metallica will perform on its 'The Black Album', whilst the Prodigy will jam on their upcoming tracks. Black Sabbath will be marking their hugely anticipated comeback at the fest.
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MUMBAI: Anirudh Ravichander, music composer of the latest youth anthem 'Why This Kolaveri Di' has signed a deal with entertainment and marketing company Kwan. The company will handle Ravichander's commercial ventures from music compositions(for films, ads and television) to live performances.
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MUMBAI: Big FM Mumbai has planned month long activity along with a special time band �Yaadon Mein Pancham' (from Monday to Friday at 9-11pm), to commemorate the death anniversary of musical legend RD Burman. The radio station hosted a musical event by versatile singer Neeraj Shridhar yesterday, the day of singer's death anniversary.
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MUMBAI: Renowned tabla wizard Zakir Hussain will perform at a two-day annual music fest �CITI–NCPA Aadi Anant', starting from 7 January in Mumbai. Specially conceived by Hussain, the music festival is a blend of melodies from north and south India, as well as from the world of jazz. The music festival will showcase works that are deeply embedded in such traditions, and yet seek to reach out into the infinite realms of creativity, fostered by the contemporary socio–cultural milieu.
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MUMBAI: Amit Saigal, founder & editor of the music magazine Rock Street Journal has passed away. He had been an encouraging entity to several independent rock bands and musicians. In January 1993, Saigal initiated the rock magazine �Rock Street Journal' in Allahabad along with Shena Gamat to popularize the independent music scene in India. With over 25 years of experience in the music business in India, Saigal was also closely involved in the club and the concert market.
read moreMUMBAI: Finland's Nokia Corporation is moving its Asia-Pacific headquarters from Singapore to Beijing as part of plans to raise business efficiencies and meet savings targets. A Nokia spokesperson said in an emailed response to queries from Dow Jones Newswires that the move is part of their strategy to adapt their operations to the business environment to ensure competitiveness. This includes an increasing focus on assembly in Asia, close to Nokia's suppliers.
read moreMUMBAI: Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today expanded its family of networking devices with the release of two new Elite(R) branded networked audio players. Both the N-30 ($499) and N-50 ($699) are equipped with AirPlay(R) and DLNA(R) 1.5 wireless technologies, offering music lovers access to their music stored in a variety of different sources. With the growing popularity of high-resolution audio available for Internet download, Pioneer's networked audio players are designed to handle and expertly reproduce high-resolution digital music.
read moreMUMBAI: Sirius XM Radio announced today that it will air BBC Radio 1's weekly show The Official Chart with Reggie Yates on 20 on 20, channel 3, beginning Sunday, January 15 at 4:00 pm ET. The weekly countdown show will feature Reggie Yates counting down the UK's top 40 songs of the week. The Official Chart with Reggie Yates will air on Sundays at 4:00 pm ET.
read moreMUMBAI: DGC/Interscope recording artists THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS will kick off 2012 with the release of "Beekeeper's Daughter" — the multi-platinum rock band's first single since "Gives You Hell" became the No. 1 most-played song of 2009 at Top 40 radio. Written by Rejects' lead singer, lyricist, and bassist Tyson Ritter and guitarist Nick Wheeler, the potent pop-rock "Beekeeper's Daughter," available digitally on January 24th, captures a tumultuous time while Ritter was living in Los Angeles after wrapping two years of touring behind the band's 2008 album When The World Comes Down.
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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
MUMBAI: Vianet Media, founded by Mr.read more
MUMBAI: Google initiated testing of the 'hum to search' feature in late 2023 on its YouTube Musicread more
