• Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur will launch his new label, Lonely Astronaut, on September 19th with the release of his album Nuclear Daydream. Lonely Astronaut will be distributed by Sony-owned RED. (Paste)

• The LiveNation shopping spree continues. The live event company, which recently bought House of Blues, purchased a majority stake in Musictoday. The Charlottesville, VA-based company is an online portal for fans and a offers artists a slew of services, such as list management, digital downloads and wholesale fulfillment. (Billboard.biz)

• Geffen Records has partnered with DIC Entertainment to create a brand for teens and pre-teens (a.k.a. "tweens") called SPG. And I quote: "The cornerstone of the SPG brand is a multi-talented, multi-ethnic entertainment group, Slumber Party Girls, featuring a triple threat of five talented teens who sing, dance and act, and were chosen from more than 1,000 who auditioned." The group will be featured on AOL and CBS. Ron Fair, Chairman, Geffen Records, & President, A&M/Interscope Records, is co-producer of a 26-episode dance competition the group will host. No word is given on an eventual album release. (Press Release)

• Online Latin download store Musica360.com has launched a hip hop blog by Glock Deniro. (Glock DeNiro The Godfather)

• Sections of France's copyright law that aimed to open up the iPod/iTunes walled garden has been declared unconstitutional. The law will create a DRM licensing authority, which sounds like a recipe for a horrible mess. At some point the market is going to work out the interoperability problem, and it won't be a moment too soon. (News.com)

• Posts will be sparse for another day or so as Coolfer is in the process of moving to Nashville.