Briefly News and Comment: Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams

plus: Police and punkers confront. R.L. Burnside live. We knew him when.

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The label that Christina Aguilera sued in May for planning to release an album that Aguilera claims is unauthorized--she made it when she was 14--announced that it will release that album on Aug. 21.

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Music365.com reported that Robbie Williams ended the final show on his recent tour--in Glasgow--with the words, "That's it--I've had enough. I won't be touring for a long, long time. I'm Robbie Williams--please don't forget me."

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The Los Angeles Times reported that police officers and 300 punk fans got into a confrontation early Saturday (8/4) outside of Glass House in Pomona, Calif., about an hour east of L.A. "Police used rubber bullets and beanbag rounds," according to the article.

The bands playing that night were the Casualties, the Strap Ons and the Voids, according to Glass House's website.

While surfing around trying to find out more, we went to the Casualties' official website, where the band's guitarist has a few words for people who think the band sold out for doing the Warped tour:

Here's a news flash WE'RE NOT 17 ANY MORE. If we wanna keep doing this we have to make some money to support it. We can't go touring out of our own pockets, we're struggling as it is. Gas + Food x 5 people = $. We get home from going on tours that last anywhere from 2 to 4 months through out Europe and the U.S.A. and guess what? We have bills from those 4 months plus the current months bill. On top of that we're out of JOBS (the same ones we left to go touring and play for you guys). We even have chicks that leave us because we're out on the road too much, doing what?! Playing s---holes, getting into fights, breaking down in the middle of nowhere with no help for miles, getting ripped off and underpaid for what?!....FOR THE PUNX (and anyone who wants to see us)!!!!

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"Burnside on Burnside," the first live album of R.L. Burnside's five-decade career, will be released by Fat Possom Records on Oct. 23. The album was recorded in January at Portland, Ore.’s Crystal Ballroom. The 74-year-old bluesman returns to the Crystal Ballroom on Sept. 1, with additional dates in Seattle (Showbox, August 31), at House of Blues in Chicago on Sept. 7, and on Sept. 8 in Springfield, Missouri at the Greater Ozark Blues Festival.

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We just learned that an old housemate from about nine years ago, back in the Midwest, is one half of a morning radio duo on an alt-rock station in San Bernardino, Calif., also about an hour east of L.A.

For one show, according to its website, the duo pretended to bake a dog to death in a hot car with the windows rolled up. Also, it's going to send a listener to a Las Vegas whorehouse--listeners must submit an essay on why they deserve to go to the whorehouse. The winner gets to go with a guy named Fat Jason, who weighs 400 pounds.

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