ARETHA FRANKLIN will help inaugurate the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock with a November 16th performance, as part of the festivities leading up to the library?s November 18th opening. Franklin will perform with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and her own band. Tickets are on sale Friday . . . The ROOTS, MOBY and PERRY FARRELL will perform on August 24th at Hammerstein Ballroom in a kick-off benefit for MoveOn PAC?s ten-week Don?t Get Mad, Get Even! ad campaign. The event will be hosted by JANEANE GAROFALO. Tickets can be purchased at moveon.tix.com . . . On Friday, COURTNEY LOVE pleaded not-guilty to an assault charge stemming from an April incident in which she allegedly attacked a woman at the home of her former boyfriend James Barber. Her preliminary hearing in the case is set for October 7th . . . VAN HALEN have sued the Baltimore Orioles for backing out of a proposed deal for a performance in Camden Yards. The lawsuit seeks at least $2 million after the band rearranged its itinerary to accommodate the concert . . . Island Records will reissue BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS? 1973 classic Burnin? as a double-album, including a previously unreleased concert recording from that year . . . DIRTY VEGAS will release their second album One, featuring the single ?Walk Into the Sun,? on November 30th . . .
PATTI SCIALFA will hit the road behind her album 23rd Street Lullaby, her first album of new material in eleven years. The five-city club tour kicks off on September 15th in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and marks Scialfa's first national tour as a solo artist . . . SLAYER will once again headline the Jagermeister Music Tour, which begins October 29th in Springfield, Missouri . . . MORRISSEY, FRANZ FERDINAND, the KILLERS, DEVO, TEARS FOR FEARS, BILLY IDOL, X, MUSE, A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS and the WALKMEN will all perform at KROQ's Inland Invasion 4 concert, to be held at the Hyundai Pavilion, outside Los Angeles, on September 18th . . . Columbia Records will release Fifty Years: The Artistry of TONY BENNETT, a five-CD box set, on October 12th. Bennett will release a new album, The Art of Romance, on November 9th . . .
LINKIN PARK will donate $5 from every ticket sold from Wednesday night's Projekt Revolution show in Tampa to the Red Cross Hurricane Charley Relief Fund. The donation is expected to exceed $65,000 . . . JENNIFER LOPEZ will return to NBC's Will and Grace, portraying herself on the show's September 16th season premiere. JANET JACKSON will appear on the second episode . . . JET was forced to pull out of this weekend's V Festival due to the death of band members NIC and CHRIS CESTER's father . . . NICK LACHEY will guest star as ALYSSA MILANO's love interest in six episodes of the WB show . . . Prolific film composer ELMER BERNSTEIN died in his sleep Wednesday; he was eighty-two. He wrote music for such movies as National Lampoon's Animal House, The Magnificent Seven and To Kill Mockingbird, and received fourteen Academy Award nominations . . . The BEACH BOYS' legendary lost Sixties album Smile is the subject of the new Showtime documentary, Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile, set to air October 5th, a week after the September 28th release of Wilson's newly recorded version of the album . . .
OUTKAST's BIG BOI will team with SLEEPY BROWN to headline the two-day SoulFest Atlanta 2004 held outside of Turner Field on September 4th and 5th. The inaugural festival will also feature performances by LL COOL J, ANGIE STONE, MOS DEF, CHAKA KAHN, and ANTHONY HAMILTON . . . The Vote for Change tour will wrap in Miami on October 10th with an all-star concert featuring performances by artists from the tour's many bills. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, R.E.M., PEARL JAM, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, DIXIE CHICKS, and JAMES TAYLOR are among those set for the grand finale. SHERYL CROW will join JACKSON BROWNE, BONNIE RAITT and others as a special guest for the October 8th show in Jacksonville . . . Under a Blue Dublin Sky, a new book containing hundreds of photos and anecdotes from U2 fans, is available through u2book.net . . . Veteran singer-songwriter DAN FOGELBERG has cancelled his fall tour to undergo treatment for prostate cancer . . .
ASHLEE SIMPSON has teamed up with big sister JESSICA to record a duet of "Little Drummer Boy" for Jessica's upcoming holiday record. ASHLEE is also preparing the release of her second single, "Shadow" . . . MARILYN MANSON's best-of collection "Lest We Forget," which includes his new cover version of DEPECHE MODE's "Personal Jesus," will be released September 28th . . . Jailed rapper SHYNE was barred from conducting in-person interviews and from using the telephone, as authorities investigate whether or not he abused prison rules by making about 100 phone calls . . . Country musicians RICKY SKAGGS, JOSH TURNER, MARTY RAYBON, BILLY DEAN and others have joined forces to form "Your Country, Your Vote," an initiative to encourage registration among young voters . . .
COLDPLAY's Chris Martin and JONNY BUCKLAND will perform at KCRW's fourth-annual Sounds Eclectic Evening at Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles on November 20th. RILO KILEY and NELLY McKAY are also on the bill . . . GOV'T MULE, BLUES TRAVELER and the NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS are among the jam bands who have signed on to contribute LYNYRD SKYNYRD covers for Under the Influence -- A Jam Band Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd, due October 5th . . . In the continuing download wars, RealNetworks has lowered its price to forty-nine cents per song and 99 cents per album through Labor Day . . . JUDAS PRIEST will release a new studio album on December 28th. The band will include a bonus live DVD in the initial shipment . . .
COURTNEY LOVE is heading to trial. The singer has failed in her attempts to strike a deal with prosecutors and will stand trial on two felony counts of drug possession beginning September 30th in Los Angeles. Both counts stem from incidents in October of last year when Love was found in the middle of a Los Angeles street, having broken windows at the nearby home of ex-boyfriend JAMES BARBER . . . BRITNEY SPEARS has covered BOBBY BROWN's hit "My Prerogative" for her upcoming best-of Greatest Hits: My Prerogative CD, due November 16th. The collection will feature another new track . . . PETER CARE has signed on to direct R.E.M.'s video for new single "Leaving New York." The song is expected to debut on the radio next week . . .
DESTINY'S CHILD will release their next album on November 16th followed in April by a world tour. The disc will be a combination CD/DVD . . . PRINCE has reopened his Paisley Park Studios outside Minneapolis with newly digitalized recording and editing rooms . . . WILLIE NELSON's 1973 gospel album The Troublemaker will be re-released on August 24th with four live bonus tracks including the traditional "Amazing Grace," recorded in Austin at the Texas Opry House . . .
MEREDITH BROOKS will re-release her 2002 album Bad, Bad One under the new title Shine on September 21st. Talk-show host DR. PHIL picked "Shine" as the theme song to the upcoming season of his syndicated show . . . Salsa singer RUBEN BLADES was named Panama's new tourism minister by president-elect MARTIN TORRIJOS. . . The BANGLES are set to perform on September 13th at the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles in a benefit for ailing BILLY COWSILL of the COWSILLS, the Sixties group that inspired The Partridge Family TV show and recorded the theme songs to Love American Style and Hair.