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Willie Nelson will host Inside Arlyn, a TV series filmed at an Austin recording studio at which the country legend will interview and perform with other musicians. The show is taping two pilot episodes next week, according to the Austin Business Journal, which will feature guests Merle Haggard and Gary Clark Jr.



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Two Chicago based acts, Fall Out Boy and Lupe Fiasco, have teamed up for the Chicago Bulls theme song "Only the Bulls." The anthem is sure to get Bulls fans pumped up during basketball games this year. On the cut, written in 1996 by Ira Antelis, Cheryl Berman and Steve Schanwald, FOB handles the instrumentation, while Lupe handles the verse.



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Keith Urban will speak at next year's annual Country Radio Seminar (CRS) in Nashville. The event goes down from February 25-27 at the Nashville Convention Center, while Urban's talk happens the 27th at 3 PM. "Urban is one of the first artists to have literally broken down the separation that can exist even on the concert stage," CRS exec director Bill Mayne says.



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Eminem has dissed Lana Del Rey, rapping in a new song, "Shady Cxvpher," that he'll "punch Lana Del Rey in the face twice like Ray Rice."
Rice is the former Baltimore Ravens running back who was expelled from the NFL after video of him punching out his fiancée was released.
The whole verse is, "But I may fight for gay rights, especially if the dyke is more of a knockout than Janay Rice / Play nice? B*tch I'll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance / 'Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens."





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Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of the late Nirvana fronter Kurt Cobain, hit Twitter earlier this week to post a pic of her and her dad. In the photo, Kurt sits on the floor with his toddler girl. "Kurdt and Bean," reads the caption. Frances did not add a date or time to the pic. Frances, now 22 years old, was four months shy of her second birthday when her father killed



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"Neon Light" is the 13th consecutive number one single for Blake Shelton, breaking a record that he himself set for the most consecutive number ones on the Billboard and country charts during the monitored airplay era. "It's always exciting to have a No. 1 record and I'm especially proud of this one, because this song blends the current sound on country radio with the traditional."



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Mary J. Blige took the stage on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to perform "Right Now," a cut from her latest record, The London Sessions. Blige, who wrote the tune with Disclosure, Sam Smith, and Jimmy Napes, wowed the studio audience with her emotion and vocal range. During the interview part of the visit, Ellen told Mary that the new album is her favorite.



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J. Cole has confirmed that his third album 2014 Forest Hills Drive is set to drop before the year's end. J made his announcement after both Amazon and iTunes leaked the album artwork and, title and release date earlier this week. The album is set for release on December 9 and J broke the news writing, "What up? My New Album is finished."



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Bob Marley will be the face of Marley Natural, the first international marijuana brand. The company, based out of NYC, offers pot-infused creams, accessories and strains of "heirloom Jamaican cannabis." "This is what the end of prohibition looks like," said Brendan Kennedy, CEO of Privateer Holdings, which owns Marley Natural.



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Beck and Sia teamed up on "Moonquake Lake," a cut from the original motion picture soundtrack to Annie. According to TIME magazine, the OST is geared toward kids rather than adults. "In a melody fitting for a little heroine, it tells the fantastical tale of a fish-like girl who came from the moon, 'ready to fight'."



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