Linkage: SeeqPod Music, EMI, Gus Gus, LA piracy

- SeeqPod Music is a new music service that lets you search for songs and YouTube videos online and add them to a playlist. You can the save the playlist and email it to friends.

- EQ Magazine caught up with Icelandic formation Gus Gus to talk about their new LP "Forever," which comes out at the end of this month: "You must get influenced by outside things - when you're in a bad mood because of the aluminium factory, you're going to make an angry track. Then you could say you're influenced by aluminium."

- EMI Group may sell or demerge its recorded music division as part of an overhaul of the business designed to reverse falling profits, quoting sources close to the company. [via Reuters]

- A new study report, conducted by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), released on February 16, 2007 says that global piracy cost Los Angeles-area companies USD $5.2 billion and the city at least USD $483 million in tax revenues in 2005. [via Billboard]