Almost every day, neuroscientists are providing clear evidencesthat music has a positive effect on children’s braindevelopment. Modern brain imaging technologies such as MRI and PET brain scanallow scientists to see which part of our brain comes aliveduring certain type of activities and which parts are affectedby different type of stimulus. Scientists can now bereave thebrain in the process...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEA Revealing Album That is Locked and Loaded and Setting itsSights On Our U.S. MilitaryOctober 24, 2005–San Jose, CA– It wasn’t until DennisKyne returned to the US to finish his civilian duty that helearned the most painful lessons of 15 years served in the USArmy. His own Military and his own countrymen let him down. Kynewas shocked to return home and learn about...

Music videos represent a crucial part of the music industry.Artists owe their careers to music videos as they are beinggiven the chance of impressing the public not just with theirvocal talent, but also with their looks or moves. Thirty years ago, music video used to be less important then itis nowadays. MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gaveso much power and importance to the music video....

Music videos represent a form of expressing an artistic message,but many artists sometimes make a statement that is consideredto be offensive. Therefore the music video gets censored due tothese offensive messages. The definition of offensive music videos is different from onecountry to another. What is considered to be offensive in onecountry could be seen as a completely normal behaviour inanother....

Although the first music video ever broadcasted was ‘VideoKilled the Radio Star’ played by MTV in 1981, some consider themusic video to be much older than that year. It seems that thefilm Alexander Nevsky, directed by Sergei Eisenstein in 1938 hadsome extended images of battles which had been choreographed bySergei Prokofiev. These new scenes were so innovative that theyhave lately been...

Music marketing is by and large difficult for mostartists, that is something we need to realise. Marketingyourself, being confident to allow people to listen to yourtracks and most importantly, handling criticism takes a bit oftime to get used to. In the majority of cases though, marketingplans do fail. you may have a great sounding track, but if it isnot marketed properly then it will just be white...

Elan is an astonishingly talented singer-songwriteroriginally from Guadalajara. She landed a few years ago in thefertile musical landscape of Southern California and quicklymade a name for herself by being the first internationallysuccessful Latin American independent artist as well as thefirst female Latina to begin her career with an English languagealbum written completely on her own.That 2003 debut...