• UK retailer Carphone Warehouse will put together a bundle of products that should help spur interest in Nokia's Comes With Music service. "Carphone is putting its backing behind Nokia’s debut Comes With Music handset, the 5310, bundling a free laptop and 3’s mobile broadband with it." (Mobile Today)

• Does Los Angeles have too many venues? "By the end of the year, Los Angeles will have seven venues booking acts that draw between 800 and 2,300 and two halls." (Variety)

• George Jones and other country stars will have celebrity-themed venues at the Country Crossings entertainment resort being built in Dothan, Alabama. The complex will include a 15,000-seat amphitheater, several major hotels and an RV park. (Music Row)

• Play.com now offers MP3s from all four majors. (Telegraph)

• In yesterday's post about EMI's "digital sandbox" I erred in writing about MusicNet as a direct-to-consumer business. EMI was one of the founders of MusicNet, but the direct-to-consumer service with major label ownership was PressPlay. Dumb mistake on my part. MusicNet and PressPlay were very different. Rather than strike out the incorrect sentences in the post I just deleted them and opted for a correction in this space.

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