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MUMBAI: Cheema Y, the dynamic and emerging star in the realm of Punjabi music, unleashed his latest musical endeavour with 5 songs EP; ‘Cloud 9’.
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NEW DELHI: Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar will receive the second K L Saigal award later this month. The nightingale of India has already been awarded with K L Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award in 2008. The award will be presented by legend of music industry Padma Bhushan Khayyam who had earlier received this award. The 82 year old legend will be felicitated with lifetime achievement award along with her brother Pandit Hridyanath Mangeshkar.
read moreMUMBAI: Music travelogue series �The Dewarists' has become quite popular amongst music enthusiasts with its unique collaborations and music amalgamations. The fifth episode of the show will feature collaborative act of UK based breakbeat performer �Shri' and folk collective �Rajasthan Roots' on 13 November.
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BANGALORE: �Many Moods of R D Burman' - a tribute concert to the musical maverick Pancham Da will be held on 12 November at the Chowdiah Memorial Hall in Bangalore. The concert will witness Pancham Da's romantic melodies, sizzling hits, soulful poetry and classical based songs like Kuch na kaho, Zindagi milke bitayenge, Jay jay Shiva Shankar, Naam ghum jayega.
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MUMBAI: Four-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift will release CD/DVD and Blu-ray disc of her concert �Speak Now World Tour - Live' on 28 November under Universal Music Group International.
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MUMBAI: Renowned singer Shaan recently paid tribute to the legendary Kishore Kumar at the Fever Tribute Series held in Shanmukhananda Hall, Mumbai. Replete with renditions like �Chhookar Mere Mann Ko', �O Hansini', �Dekha Na Haye Socha Na', �Apni toh Jaise Taise', Shaan's melodious voice traversed the audiences to the poignant and black and white era of soulful music.
read moreMUMBAI: Android continues to dominate over other US mobile platforms with 44.8 percent share of smartphone market in September, according to Internet marketing research company ComScore. The latest numbers from ComScore state that Android market share has grown by 4.6 percent points since June 2011, closing with 44.8 percent in September. Apple iOS market shares have also grown with 0.8 percentage points over June, gaining 27.4 percent of the US smartphone.
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MUMBAI: 92.7 BIG FM, Chennai's No.1 Melody station, hosted an event featuring 'Ilayathalapathy' Vijay of "Velayutham" fame, at the Savera Hotel. Along with BBC, 92.7 BIG FM invited Vijay who appeared in the BBC Star Talk that focused on the success of his 52nd movie. The BIG BBC Star talk will be aired later this month in BIG FM. On the occasion the actor launched 92.7 BIG FM's BIG Little RJ Hunt, the hunt for the talented child for Children's Day.
read moreMUMBAI: Schematic Labs, a leading provider of mobile social entertainment applications and creators of SoundTracking, its flagship mobile music app for iPhone and iPod touch, has completed a $4.75 million dollar financing. This latest funding round was led by Accel Partners, the investors backing Facebook, DropBox, Spotify and StumbleUpon. Other investors include True Ventures, the lead investor in the first round of SoundTracking funding, and SoftBank Capital. The company will use the funds for hiring and new product development.
read moreMUMBAI: The Latin Recording Academy(R)recently announced that AEG Digital Media was selected to provide webcast management and turnkey streaming services for the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY Pre-Telecast ceremony and various other Latin GRAMMY Week events Thursday, Nov. 10. The events will be streamed live from Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Events Center. AEG Digital Media will live stream the arrivals of celebrities and red carpet events taking place before the event as well as the Pre-Telecast to a worldwide audience at latingrammy.com.
read moreMUMBAI: Shortly after Floor On Fire... has been released in the USA the single entered the Billboard Dance Charts and currently holds the number 8 position. Once more the iconic singer managed to add another Top 10 hit to her collection and proves she is there.
read moreMUMBAI: Spinlet, Africa's premier digital distribution service has entered into a strategic alliance with Storm 360. With this partnership, Spinlet's technology and service will provide Storm 360 with their new digital music label Storm Digital, an exclusive platform to sell and promote their content. As an existing popular record label and entertainment company Storm 360 and Spinlet both look forward to ensuring that artist's rights are protected while delivering their music digitally on a global level to new audiences.
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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
MUMBAI: Vianet Media, founded by Mr.read more
