Paul McCartney [ tickets ]'s book of poetry, "Blackbird Singing," is due in the U.K. in March, and in the U.S. in April.

Here's the setlist of Guns N' Roses [ tickets ]' New Year's Eve show in Las Vegas, according to Rolling Stone:

Welcome to the Jungle
Mr. Brownstone
Nightrain
Think About You
Out Ta Get Me
Oh My God
My Michelle
It's So Easy
Rocket Queen
Sweet Child O' Mine
Patience
Live and Let Die
November Rain
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
The Blues
Oklahoma
Chinese Democracy
Untitled
You Could Be Mine
Silk Worms
Paradise City

Edel Records (Ace of Base, the Goo Goo Dolls) has entered into an agreement with Napster, the Boston Globe reported. The label will officially allow its songs to be shared on Napster, once the new, fee-based network begins.

From TheStreet.com:

The America Online (NYSE: AOL - news) Time Warner (NYSE: TWX - news) marriage is at the speak-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace stage. And as the pair await the Federal Communications Commission's blessing, one last unwelcome guest is trying to get officials' attention. ...

This most recent example of how people are lobbying the FCC to take action against AOL Time Warner comes in a letter from Gaithersburg, Md. -based attorney Kenneth Yates, who is lead counsel in a suit filed by Internet service providers against AOL. The suit, along with a state lawsuit Yates filed in Maryland, alleges that the AOL version 5.0 software released in 1999 harms AOL's competitors by replacing them as a computer user's default ISP, unbeknownst to the AOL customer who is installing the software. The ISP suit seeks federal class action status.

The Board of Directors of Musicmaker.com, which provided custom music CDs and digital downloadable music on the Internet, has unanimously voted to liquidate and dissolve the company. Among the laundry list of reasons cited in a press release:

The music industry and e-commerce in general are in a period of rapid change and uncertainty; the potential for growth and availability of financing this environment is extremely limited; the Company's inability, despite significant efforts, to in identify a buyer or strategic partner willing to offer greater value than that expected to be derived from liquidation; and the Company's stock has traded well below the net asset value of its shares. Based on this information, the Board of Directors believes that distributing the Company's net assets will return the greatest value to stockholders as compared to examined alternatives.

"Country music guitarist Eddy Shaver died on Sunday (12/31) of "undetermined causes," Billboard reported. He was 38. He and his father Billy Joe Shaver were in the group Shaver.