Donate Your Car to the Songs of Love Car Donation Program
NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Songs of Love Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that creates uplifting, personalized songs for children and teens struggling with a life-threatening illness or lifetime disability -- free of charge. Each CD is professionally p...Soothing Songs Please the Heart
Particularly when patients pick the tunes, study suggests WEDNESDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- If you have heart problems, you might want to plug in that iPod or pop in a CD of mellow songs. Hospital patients with coronary heart disease reduced their heart rates, breathing rate a...Sexual lyrics in popular songs linked to early sexual experiences
San Diego, CA, February, 24, 2009 With sexual activity among adolescents in the United States resulting in over 750,000 teenage pregnancies each year and reports of up to 25 percent of all female adolescents in the US having sexually transmitted infections, researchers and public health officials...1 in 3 Hit Songs Mentions Substance Abuse, Smoking
Rap music especially prone to these types of lyrics, survey finds MONDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- About one-third of hit songs -- including three-quarters of rap songs -- have some form of explicit reference to drug, alcohol or tobacco use, a new study found. "Overall, 116 of the...One-Third of Popular Songs Refer to Substance Abuse
Rap and country top the list with references to alcohol, drugs, study finds THURSDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Could country music be worse for kids than rock music? If you judge by the number of alcohol and drug references in songs, a new study suggests the answer could be yes. R...Researchers Developing smart Wardrobe' to Download Songs to smart Shirts
Australian scientists are developing a smart wardrobe that can download songs to smart shirts. Smart clothes contain battery-run electronics to monitor the heart rate or transmit music to wireless headphones . Now, Professor Bruce Thomas and his team at the University of South Australias We...Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction
An international team of anthropologists have embarked on a project to save Tibetan folk songs from extinction. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the volunteer-run Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) aims at digitalizing and archiving all the songs collected online, and retur...Gere Jives To Bollywood Songs To Spread AIDS Awareness
Hollywood icon Richard Gere Wednesday evening swayed to the tunes of catchy Bollywood numbers at a glittering event aimed at spreading AIDS awareness// that saw participation of over 10,000 sex workers in India's entertainment capital. Gere, dressed in a pair of black trousers, matching shirt...A New CD With Songs On HIV/AIDS Prevention Launched
A CD intended to spread the message of HIV/AIDS prevention among young people has been produced by group of musicians as a part of the AIDS Responsibility Project.// The CD launched at this month's International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada was put together by volunteer singers and produ...Grammy Winner Marc Cohn to Perform for African AIDS Organization at Carolina HopeFest
...led Join the Parade. "It's been a while since I've been on tour with a full band and I'm really looking forward to it," said Cohn. "Playing the older songs with a full band and now doing some of the newer tracks from Join The Parade for fans is going to be a lot of fun." "We are thrilled to have one of t...Bird songs change with environment
Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist . Behavioral ecologist Elizabeth Derryberry (Louisiana State University) has found that the songs of white-crown...Whale songs are heard for the first time around New York City waters
ITHACA, N.Y. For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the New York State Department...Female birds 'jam' their mates' flirtatious songs
When a single female is nearby, female antbirds will sing over the songs of their male partners in an apparent attempt to keep their messages from getting through, according to a new report published online on March 12th in Current Biology , a Cell Press publication. Males respond to that interru...Practice as well as sleep may help birds learn new songs
Practice as well as sleep may help birds learn new songs The reorganization of neural activity during sleep helps young songbirds to develop the vocal skills they display while awake, University of Chicago researchers have found. Sleep is well known to have a role in a broad range of learn...Cities change the songs of birds
By studying the songs of a bird species that has succeeded in adapting to urban life, researchers have gained insight into the kinds of environmental pressures that influence where particular songbirds thrive, and the specific attributes of city birds that allow them to adjust to noisy urban enviro...Zebra finches remember songs dad sang
Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, believe they have located a place in the brain where songbirds store the memories of their parents' songs. The discovery has implications for humans, because humans and songbirds are among the few animals that learn to vocalize by imitatin...Grasshopper love songs give insight into sensory tuning
As anyone whose nerves have been jangled by a baby's howl or who have been riveted by the sight of an attractive person knows, nature has evolved sensory systems to be exquisitely tuned to relevant input. A major question in neurobiology is how neurons tune the strength of their interconnections to...A bad performance is better than no performance at all
...he descendants of such birds accept these abnormal songs of their parents as a song model was investigated ...wed that the juveniles did not simply copy the bad songs of their tutors, but rather developed a version th...rmally singing canary males, they found that their songs did not contain any changes. Only the syllable rep...Songs raise awareness about aquatic invasive species
..., which are threatening lakes in the state. "These songs were created to encourage behaviors that will prot...s for future generations," says Shaw. These songs communicate a number of messages, such as the impo...isconsin. The primary target audience for these songs are 35- to 55-year-old fishermen who are most like...Songbird study from CSHL, CCNY provides concrete measure of biology's impact on culture
...as been labeled "wild-type" by the scientists.) By the 4th or 5th generation, birds that were descendents of the experimental "isolates" were singing songs that very closely resembled the song sung by birds raised under social conditions in the wild. "What is remarkable about this result is that even ...ePrairie Uncovers 80 Biotech Companies in Illinois
...ow, Fenders are my forte and love). A Farfisa organ (although Im not an organ player) brought back a lot of memories of my first bands and all the songs by The Doors. There were a number of Mosrite guitars (remember these, you Ventures fans?) and even a Hagstrom I guitar. ...Hal Leonard and MakeMusic Make SmartMusic
...heir spontaneous tempo changes. Students using Essential Elements will have free access to SmartMusic accompaniments for the first half of the book's songs and exercises as well as a special offer to subscribe to SmartMusic accompaniments for the last half of each book. Hal Leonard will also bundle Sm...Angel groups in Chicagoland beginning to sprout
...ack Elliot and Bob Dylan (not to mention Arlo Guthrie, his own son). More recently, a whole new generation of music artists has been influenced by his songs including Bruce Springsteen and Annie DiFranco. Woody Guthrie came out of the dust bowl (the great dust storm and the Great Depression) era of the ...Mercora gets music sharing right
.... The software's search engine lets listeners find songs and artists that are currently being broadcast by another Mercora member. As songs are played, they are cross-referenced to similar a...e, Mercora lets the listener time-shift and record songs only if the digital rights allow it. Mercora also ...Madison music featured on Internet radio station
... feature them. The Web site MusicMadeInMadison.com plays more than 450 songs written and performed by Madison musicians such as the Profits, Daedalus Bu...s the site with a broadband Internet connection and most media players. The songs are organized into three mixes which play at set times during the day: a Ma...Midwest large cap life science group strengthening in the third quarter
...rned itself after the Butterfield Blues Band (plus horns) with a few Stones songs thrown in (of course, it had to be the ones where a harmonica was featured,...ed to jam. The bottom line is that I got to play with them for about six songs (I even suggested two of the songs, which they accepted: Butterfield's "Bor...Midwest biotech stocks drop like a rock during the third quarter
...ording to estimates, 73 million people saw the debut that night. These five songs played: All My Loving, Till There Was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standin...) and Lennons personal emancipation. Lennons Working Class Hero and Imagine songs marked this new direction. Much has been said about John Lennon. I wont ...Broadjam partners with Dance Dance Revolution creator
... onto the site for evaluation. A peer review process ranks the field for presentation to Konami's staff. Broadjam's search allows visitors to find songs based on tempo, genre, mood, lyrics, subject matter, and geography. Founded in 1999, the Madison company weathered the dot-com bust, coming through...Musicnotes strikes deal to distribute Sony/ATV sheet music
...rs a wider range of sheet music options, including songs from the Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, Richie Sambora,...er selection of interactive lessons for Sony/ATV's songs in Musicnotes' Guitar Guru Sessions format. "These songs represent some of the best-known and adored works ...American Idol spurs music software
...sers a platform for recording vocals, changing tempo and key, and e-mailing songs from within the software. The more powerful Extreme Music Creator, wit...to the web. "These new software packages make it easy to create original songs in minutes and provide limitless ways to explore music, take center stage, ...