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
Directed by Mohit Suri, 'Aashiqui 2' stars Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor in the lead roles. The film's music was launched recently in Mumbai. ...
04:10 PM, Apr 09, 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
Madrid: The BBM Music streaming service will be closed down June 2 after a 19-month run following the completion of "a strategic review of the business", Canadian tech company BlackbBerry said. The Asi cloud music platform will be shut down and customers will get a one-month subscription to the RDIO service, Blackberry said in a statement on Thursday. Blackberry, formerly known as Research in Motion, launched BBM Music in August...
12:20 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: Iranian musician Alaa Wardi has come up with a new version of the song 'Pehla Nasha' from the film 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar'. The video has gone viral on the internet and Alaa Wardi says it's dedicated to his favourite Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. The specialty of the song is that Alaa Wardi has not taken any external help in producing the song. He has generated the voices...
10:41 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Priyanka Chopra, AR Rahman, Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akthar - all came together for the first ever Indian edition of the MTV Video Music Awards. We have an exclusive sneak peek of their performances for you! Also we bring you the big winners of the night! ...
11:22 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New York: Rick Ross has formally apologized for lyrics some have called pro-rape. The apology - in the form of a tweet - came the same day a women's group, UltraViolet, planned a protest outside of one of his sponsors, Reebok, in Manhattan. In Rocko's song 'U.O.E.N.O,' Ross raps about giving a woman the drug MDMA, known as Molly, and having his way with her. The song was released in...
11:09 AM, Apr 05, 2013
In this show, we track the notes of India's dying classical instruments. Instruments which once defined our raag, ras and bhakti but now are hardly seen or heard. ...
04:19 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Rapper Chris Brown has reportedly denied dating Rihanna on a radio interview due to air Monday. Asked if he is dating the singer, he said: "No". ...
06:38 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Singer-composer Adnan Sami took a sabbatical to deal with his father's death and says his dad's absence some times make him feel like an orphan. ...
07:53 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Here's a look at the work of legendary singer Mohammad Rafi through the years. ...
03:43 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Anu Malik was spotted with his daughter Anmol at the recently held MTV Video Music Awards ...
10:48 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Priyanka Chopra decided to go kitsch at the recently held MTV Video Music Awards. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Technology giants Apple, Google and Amazon are furiously manoeuvring for position in the online music business. ...
02:11 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Visiting Google Chairman Eric Schmidt claims that low cost smartphones will be the next step. "The big future is still smartphones. And the vast majority of Indians will encounter the internet on a smartphone, it will be a low cost smartphone of great power. They will deal with health and medicine that way, they will deal with education, they will entertain themselves,they'll build businesses on these smartphones," said Eric. ...
08:42 AM, Mar 21, 2013
