Eminem Super Bowl Puppet- Lil Wayne Releases Green Bay Packers Remix- Juelz Santana Arrested- Justin Bieber and Sean Kingston Team Up Again- Lady Gaga- more

(Billboard) Lil Wayne taken "Black and Yellow" -- the Wiz Khalifa-helmed anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers -- and remixed it to a Packers-inspired track titled "Green and Yellow." more

(FMQB) As one of the primary collaborators on Lady Gaga's forthcoming album, Born This Way, DJ White Shadow says that he is spending "20-hour days" in the studio finishing up the record in time for its May 23 release more

(ASB) Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber follow up their "Eenie Meenie" duet with another collaboration. The two hook up once again in a song called "Won't Stop" which has the Canadian artist not only singing but also spitting his verses. more

(Billboard) Rapper Juelz Santana was arrested yesterday (Feb. 2) on four counts of narcotic and weapon offenses. The arrest comes after two loaded handguns and marijuana turned up in his New Jersey studio following a Jan. 20 more

(Jam) The woman Dr. Conrad Murray phoned when he realized Michael Jackson was dying has broken her silence about the fateful day, revealing the medic "didn't sound like himself" and was clearly troubled. more

(ASB) Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday will be among the stars honored at the world's first exhibit devoted entirely to the most influential female artists of all time. The Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power will be launched at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland more

A new film version of Stephen King's book Pet Sematary is set to be made. more

(Billboard) British model Kate Moss and the Kills' Jamie Hince have announced their engagement. Hince reportedly proposed to Moss Tuesday night. more

(ASB) Neil Diamond's planned performance in Wellington, New Zealand has been axed - because promoters failed to find a suitable venue in the city. more

American Idol 10th Anniversary Compilation Coming Next Month

American Idol 10th Anniversary - The Hits will be released on March 15, 2011 with mega-hit singles from the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Adam Lambert, Fantasia, David Cook and more.

American Idol 10th Anniversary � The Hits spotlights some of Idol's most successful contestants like Kelly Clarkson's #1 Billboard Pop 100 hit "Since U Been Gone," Carrie Underwood's Grammy award-winning "Before He Cheats" and rock super group Daughtry's #1 ballad "Home." Other tracks include season 6 winner Jordin Sparks' collaboration with R&B's Chris Brown on "No Air," heartthrob David Cook's platinum single "Light On" and Fantasia's #1 Hot R&B/Hip Hop song "When I See U." The compilation also highlights Ruben Studdard's soulful single "Superstar," Taylor Hicks' esteemed performance of "Takin' It To The Streets" and Broadway star Clay Aiken's 2003 hit "Invisible." Adam Lambert soars on this years Grammy-nominated "Whataya Want From Me" while current American Idol Lee DeWyze closes out the album with his chart-climbing single "Sweet Serendipity." more on this story

Ziggy Marley Introduces New PC Super Hero: Marijuanaman

The oversized deluxe hardcover graphic novel tells the tale of a noble extraterrestrial champion, who has arrived on Earth to deliver an important message and at the same time save his own planet. more on this story

David Guetta And The Black Eyed Peas B4 XLV Party

Fans will have the opportunity to witness some of the action at the party first hand including some of Guetta's sets and excusive interviews through a live UStream on dipdive.com and Guetta's Facebook page from 11pm to 1am CMT.

"I'm thrilled to be a part of The Friday Night B4 XLV party," said Guetta. "We are going to bring the party to Dallas and make it a night to remember." more on this story

Doc Williams RIP

Country Music Hall of Famer Whisperin' Bill Anderson told Nashville's Tennessean newspaper that Williams "was kind of the Roy Acuff of the Wheeling show, and that WWVA radio signal beamed way up in the northeast, up into Canada, so he was quite well-known in those areas."

Williams started out in radio in Cleveland in 1932 on The Barn Busters. He began to use the stage name Doc Williams in 1936 and called his band the Border Riders. The next year they joined the Wheeling Jamboree on powerful radio station WWVA. Williams, along with his wife Chickie Williams, became legends at the station where he stayed until he retired in 2003. more on this story

Stevie Wonder Gets Hall of Fame Honor

The Daily Express reports that the pop legend began his illustrious hit career at the Apollo in 1962 when he was just 12 years old and known as "Little Stevie Wonder."

Wonder has had 10 #1 hits on the pop charts and 20 #1 hits on the R&B charts. He has also won 22 Grammy awards over the length of his career. more on this story

Pretty Lights Releases Free Kanye West Remix

The remix is featured in a New Year's Eve video on Pretty Lights' new YouTube Channel. Also found on the new YouTube channel are Pretty Lights remixes of Pink Floyd's classic "Time," Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind," Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like An Eagle" and several more.

If you missed the news last week, Pretty Lights Music, Derek Vincent Smiths' new digital record label, released two new EP's for free downloads; Break Science's Further Than Our Eyes Can See, and Paper Diamond's debut EP, Levitate. The purpose of the label and its innovative model is to supply his fans, and fans of electronic music at large, with the freshest music from the hottest new underground artists. Grab the free MP3 here

Isle of MTV To Return This Year

Now in its 5th year, the news builds on the enormous success of the Isle of MTV Malta Special concert staged in Il Fosos Square in the heart of the island's beautiful and historic capital, Valetta.

The aim of the partnership has been to help attract younger travellers to the island and tourist data issued by the National Statistics Office has shown a +35% increase in youth visitors aged between 0-24* to Malta. The music extravaganza has seen global acts such as Lady Gaga, David Guetta, The Black Eyed Peas and Scissor Sisters perform in front of an audience of more than 50,000. The open-air concert, a mixture of live performance, and location settings, will be filmed and edited into a 60-minute special to broadcast across 20 MTV channels throughout Europe. Talent line-up and further details for this summer's free concert will be announced in spring 2011. more on this story

Hot Chip, Spiritualized Supergroup About Group Set Album Release

Comprising Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Charles Hayward (This Heat), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) and Pat Thomas, who has played with the likes of Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley and others, the band originally formed to make a record of improvised music for the Treader label in 2009, having never played together as a whole before the day it took them to make their first album. After a clutch of live performances (supporting Gang Gang Dance, playing Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Festival and even Glastonbury, among others) they regrouped to record this album.

Start And Complete is the highly engaging result; recorded in one day at Abbey Road, Studio 2, and mixed over three days on Conny Plank's old desk, at Mark Ralph's London studio. The songs were written by Taylor over the last few years and some, but not all of them, were given out as a CD in piano/vocal demo form for the other members of the group to hear a few days before the studio date. The idea was that no one band member would know the songs well enough to have specific parts, or be prevented from playing something like the first ideas that came into their head. more on this story

The Disco Biscuits' Marc Brownstein Offering Free McKenzie Eddy Mixtape

"Retrograde," the first single and video from her Brownstein-produced solo album, is currently available for free download as part of her mixtape, "A Prelude to My Next Excursion," which was just released and features Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, Nicole Wray, and Stalley. Grab it here

Eddy's full length debut solo album, produced by Marc Brownstein of The Disco Biscuits in the Biscuits' own Diamond Studios in Philadelphia, is scheduled for release in April. Studio production, in a variety of genres, is not new hat to Brownstein � but Mckenzie's album will be the first full length album produced entirely by Marc. The album, which also features vocals by the Platinum selling R&B singer Nicole Wray, features the beautiful and soulful storytelling of "the Baby Face of Hip Hop," as Eddy was called by Elle Magazine this year. more on this story

Celtic Woman Map Out North American Tour

The four month journey kicks off Friday, February 4 in Lakeland, Florida making stops in over 70 cities on its way to a May 22 finale in Austin, Texas.

Highlights include multiple nights in Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Antonio and a St. Patrick's Day performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. more on this story

The Ready Set Platinum

The JR Rotem-produced "Love Like Woe," off The Ready Set's debut EP I'm Alive I'm Dreaming, made a splash on radio and sales charts across the country. The track hit #15 on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart, #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and #18 on the Digital Songs Chart.
To support the success of "Love Like Woe," The Ready Set has announced his first ever headline tour. The nationwide run, presented by Glamour Kills, kicks off February 23rd in Indianapolis, IN and runs through April 9th in Ft. Wayne, IN. Joining The Ready Set will be Allstar Weekend, We Are The In Crowd and The Downtown Fiction. Several dates on the tour are already sold out and many more have been upped to larger venues to accommodate The Ready Set's rapidly growing fanbase.

The Ready Set is 21 year-old Indiana-born drummer, singer, songwriter and keyboardist Jordan Witzigreuter, who creates infectious, danceable pop designed for fun. I'm Alive, I'm Dreaming is the first release from the joint venture between Sire Records and Pete Wentz's Decaydance Records. more on this story

Hawk Nelson Release Crazy Love Video

Fans can watch the John Reuben produced music video for "Crazy Love." at Vevo.com at the following link.

Next Tuesday, Hawk Nelson will release their fifth studio album, Crazy Love, on Tooth & Nail Records / BEC Recordings. more on this story

Mark Z. Danielewski and Biffy Clyro To Headline Liner Notes

Presented by SPIN, Skylight Books and Bootleg Theater, the event will feature performances by Biffy Clyro, readings by Danielewski and an audience Q&A session to examine how Danielewski's 2006 novel Only Revolutions inspired the band's 2009 album of the same name. Biffy Clyro and Danielewski will sign limited edition posters, books and CDs following the event.

All ticket and poster sale proceeds will benefit Homeboy Industries, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that has helped at-risk and former gang-involved youth become contributing members of our community through a variety of services in response to their multiple needs for more than 20 years. Free programs- including counseling, education, tattoo removal, job training and job placement- enable young people to redirect their lives and provide them with hope for their futures. more on this story

The Good Natured Going South by Southwest

The band's first UK single, "Your Body is Machine," included on the EP, has already received over 120,000 hits on Youtube and has garnered attention from British press and radio.

The video for their current single, "Be My Animal," is already at over 100K hits and can be viewed here

Trombone Shorty Dominates The Best of the Beat Awards

And Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews was named among NBC News' The Grio's 100: History Makers in the Making, a list of the top 100 African-American men and women who are writing the next chapter of American history.

At the Best of the Beat ceremony January 28 celebrating OffBeat's nominees, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue received the most awards of the night, winning Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Backatown, Best R&B/Funk Artist, Best R&B/Funk Album for Backatown, and Best Trombonist. "On Backatown, Trombone Shorty has created an album that brings the New Orleans brass band and funk traditions up to date," says Alex Rawls, editor of OffBeat. "His roots are clearly in the Crescent City, but he has the chops, charisma and stage savvy to take his music to a much larger audience." more on this story

After Grammy Jammy

NMS Opening Night Rock 'n' Roll red carpet celebration will kick off with a cocktail reception from 6:00-8:00pm featuring MTV America's Best Dance Crew DJ, DJ MIA from 7:00-8:00pm.

The night will feature all-star performances by Sean Garrett, The Little Death, Blaqstarr, Jessie and The Toy Boys and Ben Hunter from 8:00pm-midnight. more on this story