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COVID-19 pandemic: AR Rahman, Prasoon Joshi team up for ‘Hum Haar Nahi Maanenge’

Sweta Akundi AR Rahman and Prasoon Joshi join hands to compose a new anthem, a call to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19

‘Intersect’ e-concert on May 9 featuring Harish Sivaramakrishnan, Sithara Krishnakumar and Job Kurian

Indie music industry in Kerala turns to ‘digital concerts’ during lockdown

Athira M Now, tune in to live performances by independent musicians from Kerala on your screens

Begum Parveen Sultana

Parveen Sultana on the beauty of a pause in life and music

Chitra Swaminathan Begum Parveen Sultana makes her art an integral part of the lockdown routine

Lisa Mishra and Rohan Mehra in the video

Lisa Mishra unveils her first non-film track, ‘Nai Chaida’

Special Correspondent After singing for ‘Veere di Wedding’, ‘The Sky is Pink’ and ‘Good Newwz’, Lisa Mishra came up with her non-film track ‘Nai Chaida’ that looks at long-distance relationships

Postcard, a song by Chennai musician Karthik Manickavasakam

Lockdown lyrics by Chennai’s indie musicians

Meghna Majumdar From old ponderings to new experiments, these singer-songwriters have been creating track after fresh track these past few weeks

Bangalore’s DJs and artistes release a cover of Michael Jackson’s Heal The World

Sravasti Datta Neeraj Kapoor, one of the members of the core team of The Bangalore Collective, says that the music video is deeply moving

Govind Vasantha

Check out composer Govind Vasantha’s lockdown playlist

Athira M Staying indoors for a while? We have you covered. For your Weekly Playlist, Govind Vasantha, composer and frontman of the band Thaikkudam Bridge, shares with us the songs that inspired him to become a musician and those that keep him going

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Strong and sure

Manjari Sinha The 11th edition of Smaran concert series of young classical musicians, featuring Ishaan Ghosh and Aditi Sharma Garg, was a memorable experience

Maestro at his best: Rashid Khan in performance

In safe company

Shailaja Khanna The 73rd edition of the Shriram Shankarlal Music Festival added a note of cheer to the sombre atmosphere

Violinists Parur M.A. Sundareshwaran and Parur M.A. Krishnaswamy in performance

Lively performance

Venkatesan Srikanth While renowned violinists Parur M.A. Sundareshwaran and Parur M.A. Krishnaswamy showed their class, young vocalist Bhavya Hari impressed with her training at different Carnatic concerts in Delhi

Classical

Sri Dhruthi and her friends rendering ‘Annamacharya Padaarchana Fusion for COVID-19’

Lockdown music Singer Sri Dhruthi innovates with Annamayya medley and COVID-19 message

S B Vijaya Mary Playback singer and reality show star Sri Dhruthi releases a video of young classical vocalists coming together to convey the pandemic safety message

Classical music concerts on Instagram on April 12

Ranjani Govind Aalaap hosts classical vocalist Sushma Somasekharan while Sandra Oberoi and her daughters will perform as part of The Global Hope Festival

File photo of Sukanya Shankar

Music Pandit Ravi Shankar’s birth centenary celebrations deferred owing to COVID-19

IANS The centenary tour planned for April has been postponed, informs the late sitar maestro’s wife Sukanya Shankar

Chennai’s Carnatic musicians plan a live digital concert

Kanyakumari violin recital with L. Ramakrishna

Kanyakumari goes by rasikas’ choice

Savani Talwalkar

All-women concert Music

All-women concert All-women concert: It is girl power at its best

Unplugged | Music

Unplugged | Two unique listeners: the delightful elderly gent and the peaceful sleeping child

Film Music

Oscar-nominated British composer Lorne Balfe in the studio

exclusive There shouldn’t be any rules with music, says ‘Gemini Man’ and ‘His Dark Materials’ composer Lorne Balfe

Divya Kala Bhavani Known for his multi-award nominated work, composer Lorne Balfe is ready with a new stretch of scores in ‘Gemini Man’, BBC series ‘His Dark Materials’ and ‘Underground 6’... and for video games too!

The Hindu Music Podcast: In conversation with Sid Sriram

Jayant Sriram In episode 6 of The Hindu’s Music Podcast, singer Sid Sriram takes us on an eclectic journey, from Carnatic music concerts in Chennai, finding stardom in playback singing and breaking barriers with his new independent music projects.

Bollywood tunes: A still from Manmarziyan

In praise of Amit Trivedi

Narendra Kusnur And the award for the Best Hindi Film Musician 2018 goes to... Amit Trivedi. Before anyone asks why I haven’t named Arijit Singh, Ajay-Atul or the now

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Homing In Music

Lockdown playlist for some 80s nostalgia

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Singer Isheeta Ganguly’s recreation of the National Anthem is a call for unity

Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, other stars in Dharavi rappers music video

Malayalam playback singers to perform live on Facebook for 60 days to raise funds for music fraternity

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This music video features silent cities of 12 COVID-19 hit countries

Nicole Kidman a huge influence on Keith Urban’s music

Composer Vinod Krishnan’s ‘Kandapadi Kaadhali’, inspired by his love for AR Rahman’s melodies

His upcoming single, scheduled to release later this week, celebrates love

COVID-19 pandemic: AR Rahman, Prasoon Joshi team up for ‘Hum Haar Nahi Maanenge’

AR Rahman and Prasoon Joshi join hands to compose a new anthem, a call to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19

COVID-19: 100 singers come together for an anthem

The Indian Singers Rights Association (ISRA) is bringing together an a capella rendition of ‘One Nation One Voice’ in 14 languages

Indie music industry in Kerala turns to ‘digital concerts’ during lockdown

Now, tune in to live performances by independent musicians from Kerala on your screens

COVID-19: Leading names in entertainment industry and Facebook come together for ‘I For India’ concert

On May 3, a grand finale concert will feature more than 85 Indian and global stars to raise funds for GiveIndia Covid-19 relief fund

In lockdown, Shreya Ghoshal spends time composing music

Singer Shreya Ghoshal recently released her single ‘Nah woh main’, which she composed with her brother Soumyadeep Ghoshal

Amid Coronavirus lockdown, New York Guitar Festival and London’s Royal Albert Hall go live

Staying home for a while? We have you coverd. Your weekly Live Gigs are brought to you by the guitarists of New York and a century-old institution from London, among others

Coronavirus lockdown | Songs of peace emerge from Manipur’s conflict zone

Group of musicians produced multilingual music album titled ‘Yes We Care’ to bridge ethnic divisions

UNESCO: Jazz is the music of freedom, human rights

On International Jazz Day, UNESCO highlights the importance of the art form. This year’s Global Concert will take place online

When the music was suspended

From plague and cholera to war, abnormal situations did turn life upside down in the past

Diaspora comes to the rescue of stranded artistes

Nirmala Rajasekhar and Ramya Ramnarayan, for instance, have let art be the driving force behind the initiatives

Karaoke offers opportunities aplenty

Scope has widened for aspirants and tracks are available but caution is needed in selecting the right ones

Parveen Sultana on the beauty of a pause in life and music

Begum Parveen Sultana makes her art an integral part of the lockdown routine

Actor Neeraj Madhav ‘beats’ lockdown blues with Malayalam rap song

The Mollywood actor’s home-shot video of ‘Oru Kadha Parayam’, which he penned to free beat, goes viral

Lockdown lyrics by Chennai’s indie musicians

From old ponderings to new experiments, these singer-songwriters have been creating track after fresh track these past few weeks

Lisa Mishra unveils her first non-film track, ‘Nai Chaida’

After singing for ‘Veere di Wedding’, ‘The Sky is Pink’ and ‘Good Newwz’, Lisa Mishra came up with her non-film track ‘Nai Chaida’ that looks at long-distance relationships

Bangalore’s DJs and artistes release a cover of Michael Jackson’s Heal The World

Neeraj Kapoor, one of the members of the core team of The Bangalore Collective, says that the music video is deeply moving

Check out composer Govind Vasantha’s lockdown playlist

Staying indoors for a while? We have you covered. For your Weekly Playlist, Govind Vasantha, composer and frontman of the band Thaikkudam Bridge, shares with us the songs that inspired him to become a musician and those that keep him going

Sachet Tandon on ‘Masakali 2.0’ criticism: I respect audience opinion

The singer stated that he gave the song recreated by Tanishk Bagchi his best, but accepts the audience verdict

COVID-19: Lyricist Kaushal Kishore on what inspired him to pen ‘Muskurayega India’

Written by Kaushal Kishore and composed by Vishal Mishra, the music video features Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Ayushmann Khurrana and Rajkummar Rao, among others

‘I cried while singing Vaan Varuvaan’: Shashaa Tirupati talks about her milestone songs

National Award winning singer Shashaa Tirupati talks lks about recording with AR Rahman and more

Rest, a music video by Andrew Sabu, is evocative of the times

RECK artiste and Mumbai based singer-songwriter, Andrew Sabu released a music video for his single ‘Rest’ on April 25. The song is evocative of the times

War veteran tops U.K. music charts after record fund-raiser

Tom Moore’s rendition of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ sold 82,000 units, beating The Weeknd

Minu Bakshi reacts to the coronavirus with couplet after couplet

Ghazal with a cause

Nischay of Parekh & Singh live on Instagram @thehinduweekend today

One half of dreampop duo Parekh & Singh, the Kolkata-bred and Dubai-based Parekh will be in conversation with writer Anurag Tagat

The Rolling Stones unveil quarantine song ‘Living in a ghost town’

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the new track finds the band grappling with COVID-19 isolation

Albums, singles and free online concerts

Prakash Sontakke and Jyotsna Srikanth share their lockdown routines

Nischay Parekh’s playlist for self-isolation

One half of music duo Parekh & Singh makes a case for Indian indie musicians

Your lockdown live gigs include a New York jazz trio and Indian indie musicians

Staying home for a while? We have you covered. Your weekly Live Gigs include an award-winning Canadian choir and JBABE, the solo project by Josh Fernandes of The F16s

Online singing contest

If you have a passion for singing, you can register for the Voice Of Kannada, an online Kannada singing contest, organised by KIMA Academy. It is open

‘Rapping is like cooking’

Based in New Delhi, rapper Raftaar is currently spending the lockdown period in Mumbai, as he had come here on work. “I'm happy to be in the good

Singer Sri Dhruthi innovates with Annamayya medley and COVID-19 message

Playback singer and reality show star Sri Dhruthi releases a video of young classical vocalists coming together to convey the pandemic safety message

Beyoncé donates $6 million for COVID-19 relief

Singer Beyoncé Knowles has partnered with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to help African-Americans during COVID-19

COVID-19: Rising up to the ‘challenges’ during lockdown in Kerala

People are finding interesting ways to fend off isolation blues by participating in viral ‘challenges’ on social media

‘We have to learn to share and care’

The virtual world is a bombardment of all kinds of music in this Corona shutdown period. Thousands of musicians have lost livelihoods, while some artistes preserve their popularity quotient. Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma, leading percussionist and chairman of Karnataka Sangeeta Nritya Academy, voices some worries

Jigar Saraiya: Indie music could benefit from lockdown

Jigar, of the Sachin-Jigar Bollywood composer duo, feels independent music stands to gain, as films and film music face delays

How to sing with Karaoke Tracks

Underlining the challenges, pitfalls... and some tips

Sudha Raghunathan: How the ‘lock’ designed its own keys

It should be our greatest commitment to stay strong physically and mentally so that our family, friends and community may also stay healthy

Soumik Datta releases single ‘Tiger Tiger’ on the occasion of Earth Day

The Sarod artiste also talks about his EP ‘Jangal’, of which ‘Tiger Tiger’ is an important part

Pt. Ravi Shankar was as much India’s sun: Oliver Craske

This is a key conclusion of Oliver Craske, author of the first biography on Pt. Ravi Shankar

Pt. Ravi Shankar’s wife Sukanya on life with the restless explorer

The centenary events have been cancelled, but for Sukanya Shankar the years spent with Pt. Ravi Shankar were a celebration

Kamal Haasan releases new song ‘Arivum Anbum’, states that ‘knowledge and love’ is the need of the hour

The actor-politician talks about his new virtually-conceived project to spread positivity during the global lockdown

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