50 Cent and G-Unit will release their second group album, Shoot To Kill, on December 18th. Tomorrow Funkmaster Flex will premiere the first single “Wanna Lick” featuring Lil’ Kim on New York’s Hot 97. Avenged Sevenfold are holding a guitar-solo contest in honor of their new album, awarding an autographed guitar and concert tickets to the fan who writes the best solo to “Almost Easy.” Fans can enter on the group’s homepage and then upload a video of themselves playing the solo on YouTube. University of Salford in Manchester has named former Smiths and current Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr a professor of music. Marr will host workshops on the composition of popular music at the university where he played with the Smiths in 1986. Universal Music will start releasing singles by Keane and Nicole Scherzinger via USB memory sticks in the U.K. later this month. Slightly more expensive than CD singles, the sticks store videos and other multimedia and will count toward chart sales. A Universal U.K. spokesman said, “This is aimed at the younger, twelve- to twenty-four year olds, who no longer believe that the CD is as cool as it used to be.” The Hard Rock theme park opening in South Carolina in 2008 will feature a three-story “Mount Rockmore” boasting the faces of Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Bob Marley. Visitors can also ride that 155-foot Led Zeppelin roller coaster Rock Daily told you about and and experience the British Invasion by driving a sports car through a London factory pulsating new-wave tracks.