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Today's Featured Artist: John Williams And His Orchestra

Famous film music composer and former Boston Pops conductor. Best known movie themes include "Main Title (Theme From Jaws)" (1975), "Star Wars (Main Title)" (1977), and "Theme From 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind'" (1978).

Best Legal iPod Downloads

If you are looking for free iPod movie downloads? Do you Want to download movies, games, music and video clips to your iPod for free? Read on, I will tell you about my little secret.

Idolizing The Best Guitar Players

There are a vast amount of people, whether they are guitar players, or simply lovers of music, that have their very own guitar heroes. It is these heroes that may have inspired you with music and given you the motivation to learn how to play the guitar.

The Right DJ Gear

Anybody who has never worked as a DJ might have a hard time seeing how it can be a tough job at all, but we know better. Not only does the DJ business have its downfalls, but it also can be rather expensive for those who haven't prepared financially and if you have to lease equipment for your use at the events, that is all the more reason to be financially prepared. A turntable set, amplifiers, speakers, wireless microphones and other things can really help to set your DJ business apart from the rest if you can save for them.

Online Music Shops

There are so many online music sites on the Internet that promise you unlimited downloads of music. While some of them may be genuine sites, a large number of them are fraud. Their sole purpose seems to get sensitive information about you.

Ipod Touch Music - Touching Ideas For Easy Use

With so many digital players out in the market today, learning about your new MP3 and MP4 devices audio capabilities is key to get the most out of your player. It seems that the younger generation of people have an easier time with understanding the concept of all the these newer music players today.

Playing a musical instrument is better exercise than having sex (but not as good as chopping trees)

As part of my day job, I've been consulting the endlessly entertaining Compendium of Physical Activities, which puts all human activity on a scale to measure physical effort and the number of calories burnt. The lowest things on the scale are, reasonably enough, sleep (0.9 mets), and listening to music (1 met). The highest is "Forestry, Ax Chopping, Fast" (17 mets). To save you looking it up, 'sexual activity' ranges from 'passive, light effort, kissing, hugging' (1 met) to 'active, vigorous effort' (1.5 mets). I wouldn't want question the accuracy of the study, but 1.5 mets is the same as 'typing: electric, manual or computer'. Anyway, here are the records for musical instrument playing. To put it in context, 4.0 mets is the same as playing ping-pong. Unfortunately there's no entry for 'light mouse clicking'