Living in the Digital World

The world wide web is loaded with music websites offering music downloads at prices so attractive that any user would easily fall for, and while the world was lapping it up ages ago, India only woke up to the boom about seven or eight years ago, but despite its late beginnings, music portals are up and running and making money.

Here we go Caroling.............

With physical sales of CDs dropping drastically, retails outlets for music now almost nonexistent, its music downloads from iTunes that is the order of the day. Days of playing LPs, cassettes and now CDs is gone. The only major company releasing new Christmas music this year is Sony music and Universal Music, now on CD and on digital download. Here are a few that are available on CD.

The Top Ten Pop Albums of All Time

There have been polls, voting and exercising the best and the worst of music albums of all time. Each album tells a fascinating story and many a time a fan has changed his or her mind on deciding the best pop albums. Understandably, pop albums have their good and their bad side, for it matters a lot to the music listener who would either tune in or tune out.

Nepali Nun sings Buddhist hymns and chants.

Want to experience melody from the heart of the Himalayas? Look no further. Ani Choying Drolma is an internationally reputed singer of Buddhist hymns and chants who has toured extensively in North America, Asia and Europe. She performed her first concert ever in Mumbai recently.