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 …