• A report says EMI is considering buying classical music publishing Boosey & Hawkes from owner Hg Capital for £100m. (The Independent)

• Puretracks announced a mobile music store -- with DRM-free AAC downloads -- for Blackberry mobile devices. All four majors and some indies are on board. A preview will be given on Wednesday at SXSW. Wow. I can't think of a place I'd like to put my music any less than on my Blackberry. It's always with me, which is a plus, but my MP3 player is almost always with me, too. (Press release)

• Live Nation Q4 2007 earnings call transcript. (Seeking Alpha)

• The Orchard now offers its clients a suite of admin and reporting tools called Artist/Label Workstation. (Press release)

• Chicago has two new rock clubs, Reggie's and the Bottom Lounge. (Chicago Sun-Times)

• A radio industry panel talks about how radio stations can use online social networking to their advantage. (Radio Ink)

• What questions artists should ask labels when negotiating a 360 deal (or, looking at it the other way, what a label should expect when trying to sign an artist to a 360 deal). (MasurLaw Q&A blog)

• Attendance at the 2008 Country Radio Seminar was down 9%. (Radio Ink)