• Yoko Ono has sued Capitol Records for $10 million plus interest for "willfully and knowingly underreporting royalties." EMI calls it "understandable given the complex nature of recording contracts." (Read AP article)

• paidContent.org is almost a week late with its redesign, but it looks great. Earlier this year the digital technology blog received an investment from Greycroft Partners. Yes, blogs are real businesses.

• Finally, Guns N' Roses buzz that's actually related to an actual new song. The band's "Better" is being used in a 30-second Harley-Davidson ad. (It's not yet on the Harley website.) Here's the entire song at YouTube (while it lasts).

• New York magazine gets some quotes from New York music legends on the demise of Tower Records. Glenn Branca called later-era Tower "a bad supermarket that only sold food that had no nutrients." Moby described post-downloading Tower as "a few forlorn employees and tumbleweeds blowing by the dust-covered CDs." Check the picture of the 4th and Broadway Tower at the top of the page -- it was the place to be in 1981. (Read article at New York Magazine)

• A discussion for you musicologists: De La Soul's use of Hall and Oates' "Say No Go" wasn't "ironic distance." The group just liked the song. (Read post at Dial "M" For Musicology)