• Sony's Connect music and video stores are shutting down and remaining employees will support Playstation, eBooks and Sony Reader. (paidContent)

• Univision Music has been targeted in a payola lawsuit. A former EVP at Univision subsidiary Fonovisa claims he was fired after refusing to take part in payola practices that had him paying more than 50 program directors. (Billboard.biz)

• Following up a post from a few days ago, the new NaxosDirect website will offer digital downloads in the near future -- "as early as July" wrote Mark Berry. When I wrote about the new site, I called it a "throwback" because it sells only CDs. Berry quickly did some checking and got the word out about the impending digital offering. (The Naxos Blog)

• Starbucks is going to sell a Sonic Youth cover song compilation with tracks by Jeff Tweedy, Beck, Marc Jacobs, Portia de Rossi and Michelle Williams, and a new song by Sonic Youth. (Pitchfork)

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New York University is seeking a Department Chair for The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.