• Touchstone TV has formed a music department to handle music management for the studio's television shows, which include "Grey's Anatomy" and "Lost." Dawn Soler, music supervisior and former head of music at PolyGram Pictures, will run the new operation. The move is another indication of music's integration with television series. CBS Records was recently re-launched as a digital label that will integrate its music into CBS's television shows. (Read article at Hollywood Reporter)

• Producer J.R. Rotem gave some details to Billboard about his joint-venture with Sony BMG. "t's a multimillion-dollar, joint-venture label deal with Sony/Epic. Beluga Heights is the name of my label. It's the parent company, including the label, publishing company, clothing line and a bunch of other things. A lot of labels were interested, but we went with [Epic president] Charlie Walk because he was so excited about the music." (Read article at Billboard.biz)

• Influential and entrepreneurial MP3 blog Music For Robots released its second compilation CD yesterday. Music For Robots Vol. 2 has new tracks from Simian Mobile Disco, The Long Winters, Pela, Lo-Fi-Fink, These United States and others.

• An interview with David Eun, Google's vice president of content partnerships. "If content owners have concerns about what happens to their business or their content, they're also really impressed and attracted to the distribution and promotion YouTube can offer. We know for a fact that there were some companies that were very vocal about the legal concerns, whose own marketing departments were uploading content to YouTube. It's a complicated thing." (Read article at LA Times)

• RIP Pete Kleinow, original member of the Flying Burrito Brothers. (Read AP article)

[music jobs] Director of Content at Dada Entertainment; New York, NY.