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Amazon in a bid to woo even more customers to buy MP3 music from their online store has rolled out a new service called Amazon Cloud Storage. With this offering, Amazon is providing anybody who has an Amazon account (Free registration), 5GB of free online storage space to store all your files.  You can store [...]

Google India in partnership with a few Indian music portals has rolled out a service which allows you to search for, and listen to popular Indian music.Currently, only Hindi songs are available, though songs in other Indian languages will be gradually included. The music portals – In.com, Saavn.com and Saregama are the partners in this [...]

“Sita Sings the Blues” is a feature length film by Urbana native Nina Paley – an independent animator. This film is a retelling of the popular Indian epic “Ramayana“. The producer of the film (Nina Paley) has released the film for free viewing over the internet via a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

Would you like to play the piano ? Now it is simple and can be played in YouTube. Here is how you do it. Just let the following YouTube video fully load and then start playing the video. While the video is playing, pressing any piano keys shown in the video will play the corresponding  [...]

This is a review of Sony Walkman. A sleek stylish MP3 music and video player which you can carry around where ever you go. Recently, I bought  a Sony Walkman. It is a basic model (NWZ E443) with audio and video capabilities. I bought the SonyWalkman for Indian Rs 4000 ~ US $ 88.

Is our response to music hardwired or culturally determined ? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and [...]