• Eight music industry groups, including BPI and MCPS-PRS Alliance, are joining together under a new umbrella organization called UKMusic. The new group replaces the British Music Rights trade group. (Music Week)

• Nokia will hold an event in London next week called "Nokia Remix" that will unveil the Comes With Music service. (paidContent)

• Universal Music Group is said to be planning its own video site. (Billboard.biz)

• The Pirate Bay won an appeal in an Italian court that will allow Italian ISPs to once again access the site. (TorrentFreak)

• Today is the early deadline for all SXSW Music Festival applications and the final day for the Early Bird Sales Discount. (SXSW)

• Muxtape will return as a service for artists. The site's founder opted not to do licensing deals with major record labels. Quite a few copycats have shown up, and Muxtape's founder addressed that in an interview. "So far none of the ripoffs have tried to copy what I consider the most crucial element of the original site, the ability to upload your own songs. There's a lot of hiding behind others' coattails, be it seeqpod or tumblr or whatever else, so I think the fate of the copycats lies with those middlemen." (PC Mag)

• BlueTunes is an online service that places the user's music in the "cloud." Unlike MP3Tunes, which uploads every one of the user's tracks, BlueTunes does not upload the track if it's already on its servers. That's what got MP3.com in trouble years ago. (TechCrunch)

• A profile of the soon-to-debut, Live Nation-operated O2 Arena in Dublin. (Independent)

[music jobs] Boosey & Hawkes is looking for a Royalty Tracker.