In Brief: Justin, Chicks

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE will lend his voice to Artie, a teenage King Arthur character, in the upcoming animated feature Shrek 3 . . . The DIXIE CHICKS are in the studio working on the follow-up to 2002's Home with producer RICK RUBIN . . . DMX, JADAKISS, N.O.R.E. and SWIZZ BEATZ are featured on the RUFF RYDERS compilation album, Ryde or Die Vol. 4: The Redemption, due July 26th . . . The TRANSPLANTS -- BLINK-182 drummer TRAVIS BARKER, RANCID vocalist/guitarist TIM ARMSTRONG and vocalist ROB ASTON -- will release their second album, Haunted Cities, on June 21st . . . DEPECHE MODE are in the studio working on the follow-up to 2001's Exciter. The as-yet-untitled album is due this fall . . . Folk legend WOODY GUTHRIE will be honored at a folk music festival in August at New Jersey's Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, where Guthrie was once a patient . . .

DA! NZIG will release the DVD video collection Il Demonio Nera (The Black Demon) on June 14th. The set features video outtakes and previously unreleased material from the metal band . . . Hip-hop and R&B producer JERMAINE DUPRI will release the compilation Jermaine Dupri Presents... Young, Fly & Flashy Vol. 1 on July 19th. The CD will introduce Dupri's new artists YOUNG CAPONE, T. WATERS and The KID SLIM . . . California Christian metal band STRYPER will release their comeback effort, Reborn, on June 7th . . . Detroit indie rockers KOUFAX will release their third album, Hard Times Are in Fashion, on August 2nd . . . KENNY ROGERS, MIRANDA LAMBERT, TRISHA YEARWOOD, VAN ZANT and SUGARLAND have joined the performance lineup for the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, June 9th to 12th. BIG AND RICH, LEANN RIMES, TRAVIS TRITT, GRETCHEN WILSON, KEITH URBAN and LEE ANN WOMACK will also perform.