Google's goal of organising the world's information has so far not included calendars or music. I'd say it's a reasonable bet that they're looking into it.
There's nothing particularly special about calendars that makes them difficult to produce (except some usability issues) so the only reason I can think that Google have not tried their hand at a calendar application (online or off) is searching. To search a calendar that still includes all your appointments from five years ago would require two search parameters - one for the search criteria and one for the date range to search in (even if that's just "future", "past" or "all"). Google search is typically keyword-based and very simple to use. Calendar search puts a bit of a strain on that philosophy.
Probably the main hurdle in music organisation is that people want to know what song includes certain lyrics (which can already be found via Google web search) or - and this is the kicker - they want to find "that song that sort of goes 'da-da-daa, da-da-DAA'". As soon as they work that one out, Google Music will probably go live.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - Perhaps they also have trouble working with all of the artificially rights restricted digital music out there.
PPS - That's probably a big factor too.
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