• Rumor is that Apple will release a new iPod on September 5. (Ars Technica, via Listening Post)

• An Arbitron executive talked of the relationship between employment and radio listening. People who are employed listen more than unemployed and part-time workers. Also, men are listening more than women. (Radio Ink)

• EMI band Athlete is the first chart-eligible U.K. single to be bundled with a tutorial video. "Hurricane" comes with the video, guitar tablature and a preview trailer of the band teaching consumers how to play the song. (Billboard.biz)

• HMV Canada is unilaterally dropping prices on its catalog CDs by up to 33%. (Billboard.biz)

• Classical labels' fall schedules are filled with popular works performed by popular artists. (Billboard)

• AllOfMP3.com will be back "in the foreseeable future," according to a post at the site. (AllOfMP3.com, via Tech Crunch)

• The ridiculous exaggeration of the week comes from Erik Himmelsbach's review of the book "Marooned" in the Los Angeles Times: "Satellite and the Internet and such services as iTunes are making the airwaves pretty much obsolete." Must be quite a bubble he's living in. (Los Angeles Times)