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Thriving Ivory - The next big thing!

My Favourite Rock Band....this band will go a long way...the most powerful part of their tracks is the strong lyrics.....and a meloncholic voice that sings their songs.....wonderful is a word too less for this band. Thriving Ivory  is a five-member American rock band who originated in Santa Barbara, California before relocating to San Francisco, California. They released their self-titled Wind-up Records debut album on June 24, 2008. The debut album reached  #1  on the Billboard Heatseekers chart on the strength of the charting single "Angels on the Moon". After half a year, "Angels on the Moon" appeared on the US Pop 100 Chart, reaching at number 28. The band was chosen for the Yahoo! Music: Who's Next? User's Choice Competition. They were up against 3 other artists, including We The Kings, Shwayze, and Mandi Perkins. The contest launched August 14, 2008. They also featured as a M...
Did you Know? • The finest compliment anyone can pay for a musician came from Jawaharlal Nehru. After a concert by M.S. Subbulakshmi, he exclaimed, “Who am I, a mere prime minister, before this queen of song?” • The notation of Shankarabharanam ragam conforms to the C Major scale in Western music. • Jon Borthwick Higgins, from Andover, Massachusetts, was so captivated by Carnatic music that he learnt it fully and became a concert singer. Chennai called him Higgins Bhagavatar. He died at age 45 in a hit-and-run accident in the US. I nstruments of Change Today, the use of violin in Carnatic music is taken for granted, but two centuries ago it had almost lost out to the piano as the newfangled accompaniment in South Indian classical music. In fact, the musicians of that era had a wide choice of native bowed instruments and they had no reason t...

My Jukebox (Dec 16, 2009)

Wazz Playing on My Jukebox  Dec 16, 2009

Bhavayami Raghuramam

bhAvayAmi raghurAmam --- is a soul-stirring rAgamAlika epitomizing the entire story of the epic rAmAyaNam. This beautiful song, in chaste Sanskrit, was originally composed by Maharaja Swaati Tirunaal, as a kriti in the (single) rAgam, sAvEri, and set to rUpaka tALam. After more than 100 years, it was recently carved out as a rAgamAlika, with built-in cittasvarams by the doyen of karNATik music, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. Song: Bhaavayaami Raghuramam taaLam: roopakam Composer: Swaati TirunaaL Language: Sanskrit raagam: raagamaalika pallavi saavEri 15 maayamaaLava gowLa janya Aa: S R1 M1 P D1 S Av: S N3 D1 P M1 G3 R1 S bhaavayaami raghuraamam | bhavyasuguNaaraamam || anupallavi bhaavukavitaraNaparaa- | paangaleelaalasitam || srgsr,mpdpd, | RSndndpmgrsd. | srm,grmpd,pmpdS,ndndpmpd | GRSd,RSd,,Sd,,GRndmgrsd. | (bhaavai) caraNam 1 naaTTai kurinji 28 harikaambhOji janya Aa: S R2 G3 M1 N2 D2 N2 P D2 N2 S Av: S N2 D2 M1 G3 M1 P G3 R2 S dinakaraanvayatilakam | divyagaadhi sudasavanaa || ...

Kurai Ondrum Illai

குறை ஒன்றும் இல்லை (I don't have any woes)  Kurai Onrum Illai is a Tamil devotional song written by C. Rajagopalachari . The song was written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna and set in Carnatic music . The song was sung by M. S. Subbulakshmi at the United Nations in 1969 and became really popular My Rating: 10/10 LYRICS kurai ondrum illai marai moorthy kanna kurai ondrum illai kannaa kurai ondrum illai GOvinda (2) Kannukku Theriyaamal nirkinraay kannaa kannukku Theriyaamal ninraalum enakku kurai onrum illai marai Moorththy kanna Charanam 1 Vendiyathai thannthida Venkatesan nindru irukka Vendiyathu Verillai marai Moorthi kannaa Manivannaa malaiappaa Govinda Govinda Charanam 2 Thiraiyin pin nirkinraay kannaa - (2) Unnai marai Odhum Nyaaniyar mattume kaanpaar (2) endraalum kurai onrum enakkillai kannaa   CharaNam 3 Kundrin Mel kallaagi nirkindra varathaa kurai onrum illai marai Moorthy kannaa (2)...

Best Movie of 2009

Vote for your favourite movie released in 2009...In case your movie isnt in the list...vote on others and specify the name in the comments... The Best Feature Film of 2009 Which is the best film of 2009 2012 Transformers 2 Hangover Up Star Trek New Moon Wanted (HINDI) Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani (HINDI) Dev D (HINDI) Love Aaj Kal (HINDI) Paa (HINDI) 3 Idiots (HINDI) Unaipol Oruvan (TAMIL) Naan Kadavul (TAMIL) Ayan (TAMIL) Pernamai (TAMIL) Magadheera (TELUGU) Pazhassi Raja (MALAYALAM) 2 Harihar Nagar (MALAYALAM) [some other movie...specify in comments] Current Results