MUMBAI: Nisa has unleashed “Dance Alone”, the final preview track off her debut album Shapeshifting due out this Friday, April 26 via Tender Loving Empire Records.
read moreReverbNation, the leading provider of marketing, promotion and social media tools for over 1.8 million artists and music industry professionals, today announced the beta launch of a revolutionary tool that helps music venues drive better attendance and ticket sales at their shows. The product, called PROMOTE IT for Shows,... is part of ReverbNation's larger series of innovative Facebook music promotion tools for the wider music industry that fall under the PROMOTE IT... moniker.
read moreMUMBAI: ArtistAloud.com has initiated its annual rock music festival �Rock Aloud' featuring 15 rock bands from across four cities namely Pune, Guwahati, Hyderabad and Goa. A few local bands that have been chosen from four cities include Alobo Naga & The Band, Hammerhead, Varun Carvalho, Elvis Rumion, Tamir Khan, Eagle Riders and Indus Gharana.
read moreMUMBAI: The All India Musicians' Group (AIMG) supported by cultural institution National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), in a press conference yesterday announced the progress achieved on the objectives and key developments that it had laid down post its meeting with the Prime Minister and Ministry of Culture in December 2010, and their future actions to promote Indian Music.
read moreMUMBAI: Renowned global electronic music artiste Avicii will perform for the first time in India at the Sunburn conceptualized �Arena gig' to be held on 18 December in Mumbai. The arena gigs gives artistes an opportunity to create ultimate music and entertainment experience with the help of technology like lasers, lights, sound and stage. The arena gigs will be part of Sunburn tour.
read moreMUMBAI: NASA has launched a custom-produced Internet music radio station �Third Rock: America's Space Station' which aims to spread the space exploration and other studies amongst its listeners. The new radio station will broadcast new rock, indie and alternative music and can be accessed from NASA's official home page. The radio station will also be available through NASA iPhone and Droid mobile applications. The station is being developed and operated at no cost to the government through a space act agreement.
read moreMUMBAI: The Indian Performing Rights Society Limited (IPRS), which safeguards the copyrights of music composers and lyricists, can now initiate legal action not just against organizers of plays and shows but also against the auditorium screening them in case of copyright infringement. The IPRS which had approached the Bombay High Court challenging an order issued by the state government de-recognizing the body said that it had never and would not demand for auditoriums to seek No Objection Certificate (NOC) before screening plays and shows.
read moreMUMBAI: The Sizzling hot number featuring the sensual Katrina Kaif has kept people wanting for more. The song that was digitally released on December 12th is already trending on Twitter with tweets from fans, industry barons, Celebrities etc. Being the anthem of the season, the song promises to burn dance floors across the country this New Year.
read moreMUMBAI: The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is pleased to announce Blue Rodeo as the 2012 inductees to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Spanning nearly three decades, Blue Rodeo has sold in excess of four million records and won an unprecedented 11 JUNO Awards, establishing themselves as one of the premier groups in Canadian music history. On Sunday, April 1, 2012, Blue Rodeo will be honoured at the 41st Annual JUNO Awards broadcast on CTV from Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, ON.
read moreMUMBAI: Pandora, the leading personalized radio service, today announced its November 2011* listenership results, posting Average Quarter Hour (AQH) gains in each of the top ten radio markets in the country since the last published results for September. Pandora posted 13 to 25 percent AQH listening increases in each market with the biggest AQH gain of 25 percent occurring in the New York metro survey area. An AQH rating of 1.0 means an average of one percent of a target population was listening to Pandora for at least five minutes within a quarter hour window between 6.00 a.m.
read moreMUMBAI: rara.com, a revolutionary new digital music service designed specifically for the mass market who still use CDs and want an easier way to adopt digital music, launches across 16 countries today, including the USA, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. rara.com will also launch in Canada, Mexico and five additional markets later this week, bringing the new service within reach of more than 900m people.
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