There were 13 million fewer music buyers in the U.S. in 2008 compared to the prior year although music listening is increasing, according to a new survey report put out by the NPD Group. It seems the decline in music buying was led by a 19% drop in CD sales (there were 17 million fewer […]
Online music destination AOL Music has rolled out a heavy metal and hard rock site called NoiseCreep. The new site aims to provide Metal and Hard Rock Fans with news, music, video and original editorial content in a blog format. AOL says the site will also serve as a launching pad for new artists and groups […]
Attesting to its growing popularity, online movie rental service Netflix has hit the 10 million subscriber milestone. Great for Desis As we wrote 14 months ago, for movie buffs living in the U.S., Netflix is an excellent source of Bollywood, Kollywood, Hollywood and foreign language movies. Whether it’s the crappy Drona, the ugly Dostana or the fine […]
Voila, a wonderful new way to waste time. We just discovered an ad-free and free legal music service called Lala that provides a decent selection of Hindi, Tamil and Kannada songs. Lala claims to offer a whopping six million songs. No, we didn’t count. Registration is simple and took us only a few seconds. Lala works in a […]
As Indians, movies and music are never far from us. Indians, whether in the homeland or in distant lands like U.S., Canada, Australia or New Zealand spend countless hours either listening to songs or watching movies. And we are no different from the herd. Here are some of the songs we are listening to/watching these days […]
Boy, this is straight out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Fans of the heavy metal band Metallica are whining that the music is getting too loud! Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting front page piece on Metallica fans complaining that the music in the band’s latest album Death Magnetic is too loud. […]