Los Angeles: Pop star Beyonce Knowles has denied reports suggesting she is expecting second child with rapper husband Jay Z.
The 31-year-old singer posted a note online on Instagram and insisted "low life people who have nothing better to do than talk about me."
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06:51 PM, May 19, 2013
Music Director: Ram Sampath Singers: Amjad Bagadwa, Ram Sampath, Yash Divecha, Vrashal Chavan, Mika Singh, Tarannum Malik Rating: 3 out of 5 The music album of director Mrighdeep Singh Lamba's 'Fukrey' has six tracks. Simple and sweet, the tracks are high on fun and entertainment quotient. Ithas its setbacks, but does not disappoint. In the film's title track, 'Fuk fuk fukrey', debutant singer Amjad Bagadwa's voice sounds a little offbeat...
01:56 PM, May 19, 2013
San Francisco: Google launched a music service on Wednesday that allows users to listen to unlimited songs for $9.99 a month, challenging smaller companies like Pandora and Spotify in the market for streaming music. With its new service, announced at its annual developers' conference in San Francisco, Google has adopted the streaming music business model ahead of rival Apple, which pioneered online music purchases with iTunes. Google's "All Access" service...
02:53 PM, May 16, 2013
San Francisco: Google has signed licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment to launch a subscription music service that would compete with fast-growing start-up Spotify, according to a report on Tuesday in technology blog The Verge. Google, the world's No. 1 search engine, could unveil the streaming music service at its annual developer conference, which kicks off on Wednesday, according to the report, which cited anonymous sources....
02:11 PM, May 15, 2013
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered Punjabi rapper-singer Honey Singh to be present in court on Tuesday to respond to allegations of vulgarity in one of his songs. Uttar Pradesh IPS officer Amitabh Thakur had filed an FIR against Singh for offensive songs, saying that he should be punished for his obscene anti-women lyrics. The singer's New Year concert at a Gurgaon hotel was also cancelled following...
10:29 AM, May 14, 2013
Toronto: Music lovers wanting to hear live tunes without going to a concert or club or leaving the comfort of their home can use new computer apps that connect them to events in venues around the world. Although event-streaming sites like Livestream offer some live concerts, these apps are tailored exclusively for music and try to capture the atmosphere and social aspects of a live show. "Going to a concert...
10:06 AM, May 14, 2013
Music Directors: Sharib-Toshi Singers: Rahul Seth, Sanchita Bhattacharya, Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Mika Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Diljit Dosanjh, Sachinn Gupta, Dharmendra, and Suzzanne D'Mello Rating: 2.5 If the theme of director Sangeeth Sivan's forthcoming movie 'Yamla Pagla Deewana 2' has a strong Punjabi flavour, its soundtrack is high on the same too. Keeping in sync with the theme, composer duo Sharib-Toshi has embellished the five tracks...
10:00 AM, May 13, 2013
London: 'R&B' star Beyonce has reportedly hired Lord Sugar's private jet worth 18.5 million pounds that the singer will use to fly to her concerts. The 31-year-old 'Destiny's Child' hitmaker will use the jet to fly to her upcoming concerts in Europe and US on her four-month long 'Mrs Carter' tour, reported Sun Online. "As a canny businessman Sir Alan often makes his jet available for corporate hire. He spent...
06:44 PM, May 11, 2013
Music Directors: Amartya Rahut and Vipin Mishra Singers: Sasheh Agha, Ram Sampath, Keerthi Sagathia, K. Mohan, Marianne D'Cruz Aiman, Vipin Mishra. The music album of director Atul Sabharwal's debut movie 'Aurangzeb', a crime thriller, has five tracks and its four musical versions. The compositions are interesting and centred around power, which is in sync with the theme. The first track is 'Barbadiyaan', a peppy number sung by Ram Sampath and...
05:41 PM, May 05, 2013
Srinagar: Online threats and pressure from religious and radical groups forced the Kashmir Valley's first girl rock band to disband but it has not dampened the spirits of many among the fairer sex, who want to pursue a career in music and singing. This was evident from the fact that as many 10 girls out of 25 singers made it to the finale of 'Choona Hai Aasmaan' (Reach the sky)...
05:52 PM, May 02, 2013
'A Leaf Turns Yellow: The Sufis of Awadh' is a thoroughly researched account of Sufism in Awadh, India. This illustrated volume introduces the reader to its history, traditions, sub-cultures, institutions and poetry. Each essay in this anthology is by a renowned scholar. Together, they explore the ways in which Sufism influenced, and was influenced by, social mores and expressive traditions, emerging as a way of living and thinking unique to...
05:00 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Sufi singer Zila Khan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the legacy of Shamshad Begum. Q. Any award being instituted in her name for classical and /or film songs? Asked by: sundar1950in A. I'd like to confer on her the title Ustad-e-Maa which is for a professional title for women artists. We from UstadGah Institute felicitated Dr.Yamini Krishnamurthy ji with it last year. Q. With a golden voice and...
06:08 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New York: When Apple launched its iTunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry - reeling from the effects of online piracy - was anxious to see how the new music service would shake out. "The sky was falling, and iTunes provided a place where we were going to monetize music and in theory stem the tide of piracy. So, it was certainly a...
03:25 PM, Apr 25, 2013
London: Justin Bieber's grandfather has revealed he is living in near poverty and has received no support from his pop superstar grandson despite his huge wealth. George, 61, cannot work because of a painful back problem and he said he and his wife Kathy, Bieber's step-grandmother, have received no support from the 'Baby' hitmaker, reported Sun online. The lack of help comes despite Bieber's grandparents having very limited income and...
11:50 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Los Angeles: Until now, my problem with social music services has been this: Following friends doesn't really turn up much music I actually want to hear. We didn't become friends because we share musical tastes, and too few of them are using the services I'm trying out. Twitter's new music service solves this problem. It helps that it's free. With it, I'm able to sneak a peek into the musical...
01:23 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Los Angeles: Twitter has launched a service that lets people find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio. Twitter made the app available for download from Apple's online store and also launched a Web version on Thursday. Twitter said the service will eventually be available on Android devices as well. The service uses information from Twitter chatter to detect popular tracks as well as new artists....
06:46 AM, Apr 19, 2013
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday. AmazonMP3, the online retailer's digital music business, had 22 per cent of the market for music downloads in the United States in last year's fourth quarter, research firm the NPD Group said in...
12:48 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Stockholm: Music streaming web service Spotify said it was expanding into Asia and Latin America, announcing plans to launch in eight new countries as it attempts to catch up with larger rival Pandora Media Inc and keep ahead of new entrants to the sector. Unlisted Spotify, which has about 24 million "active" users - those who have used it in the last 30 days - and 6 million paying subscribers,...
05:48 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Washington: The last recordings of the world renowned sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar would be released in May this year. This would be the first posthumous release of the recordings of Pandit Ravi Shankar, who died in December last year. In a statement on Thursday, East Meets West Music said that the three set of recordings to be released in May is part of the seven recordings that the Indian...
07:33 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj Singers: Rekha Bhardwaj, Clinton Cerejo, Sunidhi Chauhan, Suresh Wadkar, Sukhwinder Singh, Padmanabh Gaikwad Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 The music album of director Kannan Iyer's forthcoming movie 'Ek Thi Daayan' is short and well-composed. Keeping up his reputation, music director Vishal Bhardwaj has given due importance to each and every song. The album has five tracks and all of them have their own distinct ways of...
11:37 AM, Apr 07, 2013
