Briefly: Britney Spears, Bonnie Raitt, Electronic, Clint Black

PlanetHollywood.com will host a webchat with Britney Spears on Thursday (7/27).

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Bonnie Raitt hosted a "world music-blues workshop" for inner-city kids at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Times reported. The event, which Raitt hoped would instill an appreciation of the blues in the children, ended with performances by Alvin Youngblood Hart, KoKo Taylor and others.

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Electronic, the collaboration between Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner, will release its third CD "Twisted Tenderness on September 12, according to Billboard.

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Countrycool.com reported that Clint Black has joined Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band as a harmonica player.

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Columbia Records has launched the Columbia Radio Network. The label is billing the network as "the first online promotional radio stations to ever be launched by a major record label." It will play Columbia artists exclusively.