Recently I got a chance to interview Kount aka Llewellyn Hilt. He is a Delhi-based Techno Producer/DJ and has been DJing for over 15 years now. His music is an....
Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy is the director of the upcoming movie 99 Songs. He is a writer, director and musician. He's a journalist by education, a content creator in Radio....
India, February 2020: With a new decade on the horizon, the Grammy-nominated Indian American singer & songwriter, Raja Kumari, has announced her brand-new track and video “Bindis & Bangles” releasing....
Tumultuous times have been known to bring out stories and instances of bravery, love & kindness that mankind is capable of. While speaking about....
Mumbai, January 2020: 8th of January, 2014 the torchbearer of Indian Hip-Hop, rapper Naezy The Baa released his first song ‘Aafat’ that....
Born out of the ashes of Sequential and their Prophet VS vector synth, the original Korg Wavestation was one of the defining instruments of the early ’90s.
Key to the....
After a super successful Phase One launch of the Bollyboom Diljit Dosanjh India Tour in 2019 across Pune and Bengaluru, ‘Bollyboom’, the premium Bollywood Music Property of Percept....
Believe, the leading technology and artist services company, announced today that it has acquired Canvas Talent, an India-based artist services, development and booking company. This brings new opportunities....
Goa, December 23, 2019 – After the smashing success of the maiden edition of its Lemonade Music Festival held in Goa last....
Ahead of Ranthambhore Music & Wildlife festival in India, we got in touch with Believe Entertainment and asked them about their mission statement and how will they be....
2019 is nearing the end, and it is unavoidable to look at the meteoric rise in the interest in Live Music Performances amongst millennials. Recent trends and collections....
Recently TikTok achieved a massive milestone of 1.5 billion downloads across different App Stores and became the third most downloaded app in the non-gaming category. Its parent company - Bytedance....
The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) and Musicians Federation of India (MIF) are collectively organising a seminar to highlight the problems faced by musicians internationally and in India.
The seminar....
Hungama Artist Aloud, a platform that supports and promotes independent content, is launching a new music series –....
Spotify teamed up with Parcast founder,
Synthfarm 2020 starts on 6-8th February!
Since March 2015, Synthfarm has completed 6 programs. The first edition hosted 10 participants and 3 faculty....
Mumbai, October 2019:The countdown to the 10thedition of BACARDÍ NH7 Weekender - India's happiest music festival has begun! The Pune edition is just about a month away, and....
How did you get into music?
SID: "Initially, it was a hobby for me, and I had gone to the UK to do law. As a hobby, I probably started....
Known for his lyrical dexterity and his lightning speed rapping pace, Kaam Bhaari performs this song with complete abandon, in a truly raw and heartfelt manner.....
9X Media is the only music television network to have a unique business vertical called SpotlampE. Under this vertical, they mentor and manage music talent, play the role of....
The two-day festival features renowned international as well as local names, and is set to take place at one of Mumbai’s favorite venues - the newly reopened antiSOCIAL.
October 2019:....
Holland based company DesiYUP is organizing an Artist Networking Event for Indie-musicians and singers. The event is taking place in JW Marriott Mumbai on the 18th of October. The band,....
FEMWAV (FKA Fembot5) has observed and presented the state of women’s involvement in the Indian music scene anonymously since 2017.....
Recently we got a chance to interview one of the upcoming artists in the Industry - TAPAS, a 6-member band that is playing some amazing Hindi progressive rock music. Their....
Actor Ranveer Singh and filmmaker Navzar Eranee’s music label, IncInk Records, released its first romantic song MOHABBAT, written and performed by Kaam Bhaari. A beautiful song that speaks....
It's that time of the year again, and Musiconcepts is back to celebrating India's rich and diverse musical heritage through conversations on everything musical at the 3rd edition of the....
India's fastest growing Contech brand partners with Sunburn, Asia’s biggest Electronic Dance Music Festival to share exclusive interviews, behind the scene moments and premiere performances of Sunburn Season 13 on....
Recently we highlighted that RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) showed that 80% of the music industry’s revenue is clocked in from streaming. But that is not what we intend....
Audio OTT platforms contributed about 70% to the total revenue generated by the domestic recorded music industry in 2018. Revenue from streaming increased to $109 million in 2018 from a....
Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, today announced that it has acquired SoundBetter, a leading global audio production and collaboration marketplace helping creators worldwide connect and hire....
Recently in Mumbai, I got the chance to meet the Business Starwalt - Gautam Sarkar, Business Head/Country Manager South Asia at Ditto Music Ltd. With over 40 years of experience....
It is always inspiring to come across singer-songwriters who are not only good at their craft but also good entrepreneurs. Rinky Sharma is a fine example....
In its seventh year, festival ropes in heavyweights like live electronica acts, Maribou State and Brainfeeder signee Ross from Friends for BUDx South Stage
One of dance music’s most charismatic....
Universal Music India launched VYRL Originals, a platform dedicated to promoting and building the category and culture of non-film music in India. In India, where the Non- Film music has....
Luke Kenny started his career in 1989 as a dancer. He worked with Arshad Warsi's dance crew and worked as a choreographer till 1992. He then joined his first music....
For those thinking about signing up for Spotify Premium, today is their lucky....
Recently, during the Mumbai regional round (not finale) took place along with a workshop and an afterparty with performances by international artist Greentea Peng, alongside Indian hip-hop icons....
Multi-GRAMMY nominated and multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer Charlie Puth makes his triumphant return with “I Warned Myself” – available now via Atlantic Records alongside a Brendan Vaughan-directed video companion. Taunting
Mr Pradeep Anand, Founder, CEO and Managing Director of MeraGana.com created a device-agnostic delivery platform of online and offline Karaoke on MeraGana.com. It provides unlimited access to the entire....
With many years of experience in the hospitality trade, marketing, entertainment and artist management industry, Nakul Vagale is the founder of I Love Music Academy, Successfully venturing into the....
When the Supreme Court repealed Section 377 on September 6th 2018, it delivered the truest sense of freedom to millions of....
It’s that time of the year again when hip-hop takes centre....
Skullcandy, the original lifestyle audio brand, has entered its sixth month of the ‘12 Moods’ campaign, and the mood we’re feeling is....
Naezy launches a new song on his birthday Rukhta Nah!
Original Gully Buoy Naezy, the artist who inspired the Bollywood Hit “Gully Boy” and India’s Premier hip hop artist is....
Apple Music has announced that its analytics platform for musicians, called Apple Music for Artists, is out after a one-year beta and available for all.
Back-end dashboards are priceless....
Danish Hussain, the Audio Engineer of MTV Coke Studio and MTV Unplugged, Ashish Manchanda, spectacular musicians like Rajiv Raja, Maalvika Majoj and many other poets, musicians, artists,....
MUMBAI (Aug 8, 2019) – Norwegian Cruise Line, the innovator in global cruise travel, today announced that SIX, the critically-acclaimed British pop musical about Henry VIII’s six wives will debut....
What is India humming this monsoon?
With India amidst an intense monsoon spell, here's a look at what users are listening to on Spotify to celebrate this (mostly) amazing weather.....
Bhojpuri, which is being spoken among more than 55 crore people, has its own identity. Bhojpuri songs, whether it is DJ songs or religious ones, have made its popularity....
Music Inc. 2.0 Day 2 began with lightning speed with the King of Hip Hop, Rap, Hard-hitting lyrics just one name comes to mind, and that is Raftaar. He's someone....
Born and raised in the city of Delhi, Sajeel Kapoor has experienced an explosive rise over the past couple of years – leading the country's hip-hop scene to the forefront....
There is no doubt that music has played an essential part in human lives from the inception of time. It has been available for us in....
US-born, India-raised, London-based percussionist Sarathy Korwar’s second studio album, More Arriving received a South Asian premiere on streaming service JioSaavn yesterday.
More Arriving is a spellbinding concoction of....
Technology fascinates me the way it has fuelled the growth of the music industry at every step in the last five decades. Coming through from Vinyl Records then cassettes, to....
Mohit Joshi, Managing Director – India, Havas Media Group is a seasoned media professional with 20+ years of experience in the industry and currently the Managing Director - India of....
Today, Ed Sheeran releases his highly-anticipated collaboration LP, ‘No.6 Collaborations
Sarathy Korwar releases ‘Bol’, second single his upcoming album, More Arriving
The second single from Sarathy Korwar’s forthcoming album 'More Arriving' – set to release on July 26
“I have taken a brave and a very exciting leap with Paagal, that comes from my heart with the intent of pushing language barriers for the Indian Music scene. I....
Magnetic Fields has since its debut in 2013, established itself as one of the most stimulating, contemporary arts and music festivals in the world. Tickets for the seventh edition of....
Cricket matches are less of shootout battles and more of wars fraught with many strategies and gambits. We, as fans, are inundated with scores of memorable knocks and precise deliveries....
New Delhi-based online community radio station boxout.fm paints a diverse and accurate portrait of music tastes in India and around the world. More than 88 resident radio hosts have presented....
In a press release today, Spotify unveiled their New 'Spotify Lite' App.
After an understated message at MIDEM, Troy Carter’s Q&A is formally dabbling a deal with Warner Music Group to ‘upstream’ artists.
Carter criticized the presumption that every artist wants to....
Lloyd Mathias is an Angel Investor and a Marketing & Business Strategist who has held Senior Leadership roles in sales, marketing & business development in Fortune 500 companies, across India....
During 1994, people didn't have access to any platform to stream/download music online. There were streaming apps like Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL or more.
In 1993, the Internet Underground Music....
Everything changed on July 1st, 1979: the day that Sony delivered the iconic Walkman TPS-L2, the first real portable music player that would transform the way we listened to music....
A&M Studio and OneLoop announce tie-up to co-promote artists and distribute music content online in India and Overseas on July 1st, 2019, Mumbai, India:
A&M Studio, a one-of-a-kind neutral platform,....
Spotify has cancelled its plans to become a distributor. In September last year, Spotify stated a new Spotify For Artists beta service which enabled independent artists to upload their music....
Following all the fun banter around
Apple's Eddie Cue, SVP, Services shares that the company has amassed 60 million followers.
Even though Apple is moving upwards at a reasonable rate, the company keeps plugging different stats....
Pop talent manager Scooter Braun acquires Label that owns Taylor Swift's catalogue and is home of artists like Sheryl Crow, Lady Antebellum.
Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquires Scott Borchetta’s....
Badshah continues to be the Fashion trendsetter in the Industry with his new rhythmic-reggaeton-pop banger that has him wearing some grail unreleased luxury wear collections
Badshah who is in the....
A R Ameen makes his highly anticipated song production debut with his father. Releases his first single titled 'Sago' aka Friend from 7UP Madras Gig Season 2
A R Ameen,....
Soundtrap is the first cloud-based audio recording platform to work across all operating systems, enabling users to co-create music and podcasts anywhere in the world. There are three Soundtrap products:....
Jay Shah, VP, Cultural Outreach, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. comes on stage with a cheeky line, to begin with, that following Brian Tellis, Fountainhead has made his job much more....
After Spotify’s initial public offering (IPO), many developments have taken place on the Swedish music streaming giant’s theoretical “direct deal” licensing with independent artists. Spotify has faced many roadblocks along....
Delhi based post-rock act Hitherto started as a collaboration project between two musicians - Shrey Kathuria and Arsh Goswami, in early 2016.
Initially, the band experimented with its own sound,....
Sidharth Ezhilan blends colorful storytelling as EZZYLAND. The Dubai resident migrated to the motherland earlier this year on a mission: to raise the bar and change the game in the....
The much-awaited conference - All About Music 2018 is here
Tarsame Mittal, Founder, TM Talent Management and his team have been moving city-to-city to gauge the underlying issues in the....
Invention and innovation are currently driving the Indian economy. What’s more, they have a powerful grip on the nation’s collective imagination. The popular press is filled with against-all-odds success stories....
Another mesmerizing panel I had the opportunity to observe was the one on Creating Brand Experiences with Music Moderated by Manpreet Kochar (Founder, A&M Studio), Samar Singh Shekhawat (CMO, United....
One of the most exciting panels I had the opportunity to observe was the one on Independent Music: When Will Passion Make Profit? Moderated by Amit Gurbaxani (Founder-Editor, The Daily....
Facebook which houses more than 2bn monthly active users, has announced that its users can now legally upload and share User Generated Content videos which feature licensed music in selected....
Music and technology are profoundly and irreversibly connected. Trends like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, Blockchain, and bots are the latest innovations making waves in the music technology landscape, but....
Going by recent trends and gaining popularity, it can be said with certainty that the future of blockchain is very bright in India. Every day more and more organisations and....
Mr Amit Khanna is part of the esteemed panel of Jury members for India’s 100 Most Powerful Business Leaders Music Conference to be held on the 12th and 13th June....
Previously codenamed ‘Remix’, YouTube announced a new music subscription service today and confirmed that it would be launched in five markets next Tuesday (May 22nd) in the U.S., Australia, New....
A music supervisor is someone that is proactive in combining music with visual media. If you want to know more about the role of a music supervisor, you can read....
Once again, yearly vinyl album sales have hit another Nielsen Music-era record high, as the configuration sold 14.32 million in 2017. That’s up by 9 percent from the previous one-year....
"The only piece of brilliance around Carvaan was listening to the consumer, blindly implementing what they want rather than trying to outguess them,” admits Vikram Mehra, Managing Director, Saregama, the....
Recently, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) confirmed 30 organisations, including Facebook, were being investigated as part of a national inquiry into the use of personal data and analytics for....
After what a terrible year 2017 was for Soundcloud, things have been turning around for this streaming giant that was once valued at $1 billion. It was reportedly willing to....
The most significant day in the history of the Streaming Music business is officially here - Spotify went public on April 3rd. But what happens to Spotify matters for the....
2018 IS THE YEAR FOR STREAMING APPS, according to Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, Spotify is set to enter the Indian market
There’s a lot of confusion in the music industry about record labels — what do they do these days? With the internet freeing the artists to attain all resources to....
In the last decade, we have seen a shift in our music industry, and it's been a tough road for the people that made it possible. Having to wear multiple....
What's old is new again, literally! NAMM 2018 was proof that the modular synth world is back and staying for good.
Old school artists have been into these for years,....
This edition of NAMM was a mixed bag for Synth enthusiasts with the show unveiling some hi-tech music gear and the absence of Moog and Dave Smith Instruments.
Moog did,....
WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE?
Several public places such as restaurants, clubs, hotels, nightclubs, airports, etc., play songs as background music to lighten up the ambience.....