• Radiohead is reportedly close to signing deals for the physical release of In Rainbows that will circumvent major labels. XL Recordings will handle the album outside of the U.S. while Side One, an offshoot of ATO Records and part of the Coran Capshaw empire (that also includes Red Light Management and Music Today), will have the album domestically. (New York Times)

• Music publisher Primary Wave has inked a deal with television production company Reveille to administer the latter's music publishing rights. (Billboard.biz)

• Word is the Danish branch of the IFPI has "seriously proposed" allowing peer-to-peer downloading in exchange for a small monthly fee charged to all ISP users. (O'Reilly Radar)

• At a Zune party at CMJ, a Microsoft representative hinted that an upcoming Zune feature -- to use its Wifi to allow other people to see what you've been listening to -- could be used to let people see what artists and celebrities are listening to on their Zunes. Not only that, but the representative said the ability to view celebrity song plays would require an invitation (e.g. fan club members or people who bought a special edition CD). First thought: the infamous Beyonce iTunes playlist and the predictable and often boring nature of celebrity playlists. Second thought: This creates a better network effect that does the Zune-to-Zune sharing that requires that two devices be within a short range of each other. Third thought: Lots of free Zunes will have to be given to musicians and celebrities. (Listening Post Blog)

• In this podcast at The Register, we're told the average price paid for Radiohead's In Rainbows is around $5.00, far lower than what people tell pollsters and less than what the band could have made from a major label. (Open Season, via The Open Road)

• Songkick, which launched recently, is a website that offers music fans a database of concerts (in the U.S. and U.K.) by tracking 14 ticketing websites such as Ticketmaster.com and StubHub. One feature lets users search blogs for artists in the Songkick database. (TechCrunch)

• The Canadian Music Creators Coalition, a collection of artists such as Sarah McLachlan and Broken Social Scene, is pushing for copyright reform without suing music downloaders and without using DRM. (The Set List)