There are a lot of different kinds of music. Some of the most popular kinds of music today are rock, techno, hip-hop, and rap. All of those kinds of music affect you in different ways. Other kinds of music are instrumental music, opera, etc. Those kinds of music also affect you. The music that affects you the most is calm music like instrumental or fast music like rock or techno. Rock and techno make you speed up, and instrumental or calm music makes you slow down and feel more calm.

Music can also slow down and equalize brain waves. A brain has 4 kinds of waves. It has beta waves, alpha waves, theta waves, and delta waves. When we do daily activities and experience emotions that’s when we use beta waves. Calmness is when we use alpha waves ,when your sleeping you use theta waves , and lastly when you are in deep sleep or in meditation that is when delta waves are used. When your brain waves are slow that is when you are very calm. Different types of music cause different waves. If you listen to calm music then the waves will drop to delta and theta. If you listen to fast or loud music your brain waves will most likely be alpha or beta.

Looks like a pillar of iTunes content might be on the brink of collapse -- Universal Music, the world's largest music business, has officially opted not to renew its contract with Apple for vending music on the iTunes Music Store. We don't know specifically what caused Universal to turn away -- perhaps it's the weight of the rising anti-DRM movement among consumers, or perhaps it's because of Stevie J.'s brash negotiating tactics, continual refusal to hand over iPod cash, or oceanic persistence in keeping tracks locked in at $0.99. Whatever the reason, we can't say we're all that surprised; Universal's been a pain in Apple's ass for years now. So what's the end result? Well, Universal music will still be sold through iTunes at will, so that means consumers can keep buying tracks for the time being, but Apple runs the risk of losing Universal's content on very short notice if the companies don't make happy with one another and put pen to paper once more.

is reportedly preparing

The world's largest music corporation,

Vivendi's Universal Music Group

Research has shown that music has a profound effect on your body and psyche. In fact, there’s a growing field of health care known as Music Therapy, which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy are finding a benefit in using music to help cancer patients, children with ADD, and others, and even hospitals are beginning to use music and music therapy to help with pain management, to help ward off depression, to promote movement, to calm patients, to ease muscle tension, and for many other benefits that music and music therapy can bring. This is not surprising, as music affects the body and mind in many powerful ways. The following are some of effects of music, which help to explain the effectivene

It probably doesn't help me concentrate, but as long as it's just instrumental, it doesn't bother me. With vocal songs, I get too involved in the lyrics.

James Blunt Carrie Underwood Rihanna Pussycat Dolls Natasha Bedingfield

24%  Ricky Martin - She Bangs   18%  Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby   11%  Limp Bizkit - Rollin'   10%  Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time     8%  New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough     8%  Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight     8%  Starship - We Built This City     7%  Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy     4%  Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's     2%  Huey Lewis - The Heart Of Rock & Roll

15%  Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams   13%  Outkast - Hey Ya!   12%  Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending     9%  Evanescence - My Immortal     8%  Hoobastank - The Reason     8%  Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath     8%  Green Day - American Idiot     7%  Maroon5 - She Will Be Loved     6%  Britney Spears - Toxic     6%  Maroon5 - This Love     4%  Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?     2%  No Doubt - It's My Life     2%  Britney Spears - Everytime

Way to stereotype people. One of my friends listens to rap, and he doesn't dress, nor sounds like a jock. I listen to metal; 1. I don't skate and 2. I don't have long hair. To the point of this thread: I believe some rap is bad influence, but most of the bad influence comes from media. I was at an appointment, and I see this one kid sitting next to me. He has a toy gun, and he was pointing at some people in front of us. The thing was that he had the toy in his left hand, stuck out his left arm, put the gun sideways onto his left arms wrist. That's how the people in the movies do it, as if they were in a gang. The kid was only 5 years old - what the mother said when she was talking to the clerk. Anyways, I wouldn't think the majority of the kids who listen to music, listen to screamo, emo, etc. because it's quite obvious; it's not music to them. So I wouldn't vote for screamo, emo. The ones who listen to that are mostly, if not always teenagers+.

Vibe Poll Says Eminem is 'Best Rapper Alive'

Eminem beat Jay-Z to the title in the final round of voting with 69 per cent - but he doesn't think any single rapper deserves the title.

Deciding who is and who isn’t a bona fide New Yorker was a trickier endeavor, especially for jazz musicians, many of whom arrived in the city already armed with impressive résumés. Jazz may have been born in New Orleans, but it came of age, again and again, right here.