There have been many interesting posts in recent days regarding music deals.  Here's a quick summary from some of my favorite blogs.  

Jamendo Out of Cash

TechCruch reports the the music site Jamendo is out of cash, and is seeking buyer.  After failing to raise a follow-up round of venture capital, the site -- a community of free, legal music published with Creative Commons licenses -- is actively looking to sell to or merge with another company, TechCrunch Europe reports.  

Pioneer and Ford to Bring Pandora to Your Car Radio

There are two reports this week with regard to Pandora in your car.  The first comes from Ford, who has announced that their SYNC API will now support apps, including Pandora (sorry international brothers and sisters, this is US only).  Pioneer has also announced (at CES) a device that will allow you to stream Internet music in your car.  Personally, I think it's all cool, but I've already got that feature since Pandora runs on my iPhone, and I can connect my iPhone directly to my car stereo. 

Get Pearl Jam for a Tweet

Pearl Jam continues to experiment with and embrace social netwroking tools to reach new fans.  The band is giving away its new single "Just Breathe" to anyone that tweets (that's Interwebs lingo for "post a message on Twitter").  Follow the instructions in this blog and you'll get a iTunes gift code for the song.  Innovative. 

iTunes Browser Gets Streaming Music

Back in November, Apple rolled out a browser-based preview application, so that you can see the entire iTunes songs catalog (including album art, song durations, etc.) without having to use the iTunes desktop client.  However, the browser-based site did not allow you to actually listen to that music.  Mashable reports that Apple has now added that feature. 

Shazam Smacked with a Lawsuit

Shazam is a very cool application (one of my favorites) which will "listen" to any 10 second snippet of any song, then twll you the name of the song, the artist, and where to buy it.  I was in the grocery store one day and heard a cool song playing through the ceiling speakers.  I held up my iPhone and ran the Shazam app.  It correctly identified the song and I purchased the song it right then and there.  Shazam, along with 10 other defendants, where sued by Tune Hunter for patent infringement.

And just for grins... 

And of course, there's the Google Nexus One making big headlines this week.  Here's a funny video to start your day.  Warning: NSFW