Pittsburgh native Wiz Khalifa will perform his Steelers anthem, “Black & Yellow,” this Suday (Jan. 23) at Heinz Field to kickoff the AFC Championship Game.

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BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Benji B is moving to BBC Radio 1 to host the Thursday 2 a.m.-4 a.m. slot, replacing Mary Anne Hobbs, who’s been with the Beeb for 14 years. In July, Hobbs, whose last show airs next week on September 8, announced that she’d be leaving for a teaching position in Sheffield.

“I’ve loved every minute of my eight years at 1Xtra and am delighted to be given this incredible opportunity,” says Benji B. “I can’t wait to bring the essence of my Sunday night show and my loyal audience to my new Radio 1 programme.”

Mary Anne Hobbs, after 14 years at Radio 1, has accepted a new job as Media Development Co-ordinator of Forge Media at the University of Sheffield’s Union of Students radio station, TV station and newspaper.

Hobbs bows out on Radio 1 this Thursday with a special mystery guest mix. Benji B’s final Radio 1Xtra show will be on Sunday 10 October and he makes his Radio 1 debut on Thursday 14 October.

Benji B’s final Radio 1Xtra show will air on October 10, and he makes his Radio 1 debut on October 14.

It’s a sadly all too predictable chain of events; a band will release a spectacular debut, in some cases even genre-defining, and two, maybe three albums into a seemingly promising career, the stagnation has already set in, and the band already sounds mediocre before they even had a chance to build on what they had going for them in the first place. Such is the case with Korn, who produced arguably one of the best metal albums of the 90s in their self titled debut, and (for better and for worse) spawned nu metal phenomenon. The band was able to capitalize on their success and stay afloat for the rest of the decade, but the noughts saw them decline sharply with recycled material and generally horrible ideas (their cover of Cameo’s Word Up!, for one). Then in 2007, minus two original members, the band did the first interesting thing they’d done in years – they actually tried something new, with the experimental Untitled. It wasn’t particularly good, but at least it felt relatively fresh, and produced material you couldn’t get simply by listening to the earlier, superior records.

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First Toy Story 3 in 3-D, now Broken Bells‘ new video? I know what I’m doing for the next 6 hours. This doesn’t require 3-D glasses, but I’m going to put mine on anyways and hope for some 6-D (or does it increase exponentially? I don’t know. To be honest, no one does.) wildness.

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The singer, 29, who is pregnant, and the producer, 31, exchanged vows in front of close family and friends in a private home on the Mediterranean Sea.

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