Down-arrow icon appears next to search bar, and iTunes freezes!!!

Hi Everyone,
For the past few days, whenever I open iTunes a little download arrow icon appears next to the search bar (see attached image) after about 1 minute, and then the program becomes unresponsive. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I tried disabling the genious, but it didn't seem to help.. Please help!!
I'm using the latest iTunes, with 11.0.4 (4), Mac OS 10.8.4.
Thanks very much!!!

Actually I think I figured it out. I think I was using a faulty link for one of my podcast subscriptions that was messing everything up (Tiny Desk Concerts Audio Podcast)
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