Cravin' Melon, Howard Jones, Lenny Kravitz, Pittsburgh Nightlife,Stone Roses, Mike Watt

NEWS: > Cravin' Melon, whose Where I Wanna Be cd was reviewed last year in Consumable, has recently signed a recording contract with Mercury. The group from Greenville, SC has been together for 2 1/2 years and has released two discs on independent labels. The band has already started recording their Mercury debut, with a projected late-August release. Where I Wanna Be has sold more than 20,000 copies; to contact Cravin' Melon and get on the group's mailing list, e-mail melonheads@aol.com

> Howard Jones will be on America Online on Wednesday, April 10 at 8 p.m. for a question and answer session with fans in the AOL Live Auditorium.

> Lenny Kravitz has been inducted into the Rock Circus Experience in Picadilly, London. The museum is the most famous musical wax museum in the world, and visitors can hear an artist's most famous works while within "range" of that artist. Even Kravitz' nipple ring and tattoos were precisely duplicated for the figure.

> Pittsburgh's Backstage Pass, providing information on the nightlife and the steel city's entertainment scene, can be accessed online at http://www.pittsburgh.net/backstage

> Word out of England is that the Stone Roses' John Squire has quit the group. The band's future is very much in doubt, although no official word has been received.

> Mike Watt has updated netizens on his recent goings-on. To read it on the Web, go to: http://home.cdsnet.net/~michaelm/watt.int.html