A 27-year-old man was in critical condition on Sunday after being stabbed when a brawl broke out at the sixth annual Urban Music Awards ceremony at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night.

: Conveying the excitement people feel about music in a still image can be like describing sight to the blind. The 10 reader-elected finalists of our music photo contest may not make you hear music, but they expertly capture a musical moment. Blair takes home the gold with his photo “The Horn Player” at left. Click through the gallery to see the contestants who were nipping at his heels. …

: Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our music photo contest , we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention. Our next twice-monthly photo contest is Heat. It’s cold outside this winter, and we need to warm our feet by your photographic fire. Check out the contest page for …

British police say a man is in critical condition after being stabbed at a music awards ceremony in London.

Listening to your favorite music may be helpful to maintaining a healthy heart, according to a study.

The country may be ready for change, but things move more gradually in country music. It’s easy to envision repeat winners from last year in more than half the categories at the Country Music Association Awards tonight (ABC, 8 ET/PT). Here’s our prediction for who’s in and who’s out.

Songs that make our hearts soar can make them stronger too, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. They found that when people listened to their favorite music, their blood vessels dilated in much the same way as when laughing or taking blood medications.

The uptown transfer of David Pittu’s comedy with music, What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, officially opens Nov. 9 after performances from Nov. 1 at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.

Listening to your favorite music may be good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function. The research team concluded that the cardiovascular benefits of music were similar to those found in their previous study of laughter.

CBS Interactive , the digital arm of CBS which incorporates *CNET* now, is laying off about six editorial employees for a planned music site called Juke, which never launched . The site was in works since before CBS bought CNET Networks, and as the integration happened, CBS decided to focus efforts on building its Last.fm service, which has seen its own share of integration missteps.

Other teams might taste victory. The Thrashers hear it. It pulses through the locker room after the game at volumes so intense you’d swear you were standing next to the speakers at a 20,000-fan concert. The hard-driving electronic dance music announces to anyone within 30 feet of the locker room door that 20 very happy hockey players are inside celebrating another win. For the Thrashers, who …

Dell Inc, struggling to recharge its lineup of consumer product offerings, indicated Monday that a digital music player is not in the computer maker’s near-term plans despite speculation that such a product is in the works.

A southern Queensland community has found an antidote for flying foxes who’ve been making their lives hell - a steady diet of Louis Armstrong music.

One way for a big media company to avoid the embarrassment of shutting down a Web site — just avoid launching it altogether. That’s what CBS has done with “Juke”, a music site that CNET had started assembling last spring and planned to launch this fall.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc, struggling to recharge its lineup of consumer product offerings, indicated Monday that a digital music player is not in the computer maker’s near-term plans despite speculation that such a product is in the works.

By Margeaux Watson Margeaux Watson wonders why it seems in the music biz, darker-hued black women artists have a harder time getting seen or heard

Lola Ponce at the 2008 World Music Awards.

Dell, which is having trouble catching up with its release schedule of new products, is delaying its supposed launch of a low cost digital music player that was planned for this holiday season.

What is a Dusekiana? What does Esther Rofes music sound like? Is The Wild Boys really wild? These are just some of the many questions the new music archive website abc.net.au/classic/amp hopes to a

Berklee College of Musics massive, $145 million facility in Valencia, Spain will offer American-style education in rock, pop and jazz. Think ‘School of Rock’ meets Harvard.

People with pacemakers could be at risk listening to music with headphones. If the headphones for music players are placed within an inch of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), they may interfere with the medical devices, according to researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Medical Device Safety Institute.

The genre-blurring group Bang on a Can All-Stars played a well-attended concert at Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday, meshing elements of jazz, rock, classical and world music.

The Bower School of Music at Florida Gulf Coast University will present James Scott, flautist, accompanied by Jiri Levicek, pianist, in a Guest…

Some Minnesota musicians are turning down the volume and turning back the clock with their music.

The genre-blurring group Bang on a Can All-Stars played a well-attended concert at Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday, meshing elements of jazz, rock, classical and world music.

Mr. Dunn was a prominent conductor whose work helped animate the early music revival that took place in the mid-20th century and afterward.

British band Coldplay was crowned the world’s top-selling act of 2008 at the World Music Awards (WMAs) in Monaco.

Lala.com is a place to play your music, but time will tell whether it becomes what its founders want it to be a place where everyone plays their personal music playlists.

(Reuters) - Dell Inc has decided not to launch its ambitious digital music player tied to online entertainment software before the holidays, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The Rev. Joseph Bronder heeded two callings in his life: music and religious service. At St. Vincent College in Unity, he combined them to inspire students and parishioners.

The uptown transfer of David Pittu’s comedy with music, What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, officially opens Nov. 9 after performances from Nov. 1 at Off-Broadway’s New World Stages.

Songbird is a music player and organizer based on Mozilla technologies. After spending two years in the beta oven and gaining a wealth of add-ons and other features, Songbird’s first official release candidate is out, and we take it for a hands-on spin. Read More…

Britain’s pioneering Warp Records is surviving on a diet of innovation and experimentation, confounding predictions that traditional labels could die out as major bands release music independently.

Pioneering Warp Records is surviving on a diet of innovation and experimentation, confounding predictions that traditional labels could die out as major bands release music independently.

The streets of Selma rang with the sound of music Saturday as high school bands from the across the central San Joaquin Valley participated in the 44th annual Selma Rotary Marching Band Festival.

The coming week brings an ending and a new beginning for two popular music series at the Columbia Museum of Art. Charles Wadsworth is hosting the first concert of the last season of his chamber music series at the museum (as well as at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden). Meanwhile, the Baker and Baker concert series, one of the longest-running classical music offerings in the …

By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth took listeners on a two-hour tour of Hungary on Saturday afternoon. A concert at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth showcased music by Haydn, Bartok and Dohnanyi, Hungarian composers by birth or by affiliation. Pianist Petronel Malan, a South African who studied in the United States and now lives in Denton, was featured on …

NASHVILLE - Metro Council members are deciding whether to squelch the music in Music City USA. A bill before the Metro Council would limit the noise coming from downtown nightclubs and bars to 85 decibels as measured from the boundary line of the nearest apartment, condominium or house.

Band members and music industry professionals cast a wary eye on the slowing economy this week as they gathered at the College Music Journal’s annual music festival in New York.

Band members and music industry professionals cast a fearful eye on the slowing economy this week as they gathered at the College Music Journal’s annual music festival in New York.

Kid Rock and his Made in Detroit clothing company are working with Wayne State University to help start a college scholarship fund for area music students.

Mufin, the latest music-recommendation engine, ignores artist, album, genre and the other music people have in their collections and recommend songs based solely on raw computational analysis.

Kid Rock and his Made in Detroit apparel line are working with Wayne State University to help start a college scholarship fund for area music students. The Detroit company will create 2,500 limited edition T-shirts bearing the school’s name and the Made in Detroit logo, which features a factory worker, carrying a large wrench, in silhouette.

Kid Rock and his Made in Detroit apparel line are working with Wayne State University to help start a college scholarship fund for area music students.

Jonathan Nelson, the chief executive of private equity firm Providence Equity Partners Inc., resigned from the board of Warner Music Group Corp. on Friday, saying the firm’s 8 percent stake didn’t justify his time relative to other investments.

When I was about 10 years old, my parents took my sisters and me to the Chicagoland Music Festival at Soldier Field. There I fell in love with a 40-something black woman.

Perthshire Amber, a festival organised by Dougie MacLean, is getting under way with music, talks and workshops.