In Brief: Aretha, Roots

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 . . .