> The just-released double CD compilation from the Scorpions, Deadly Sting, has been released with two different album covers; one with a naked woman, her arms positioned to cover her breasts, with scorpions crawling up her legs, and an alternate one, for more conservative stores, sans female.
> Mike Watt is currently in New York City playing bass on a side project "The Wylde Ratttz," a one-off line-up featuring Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore on guitar and Steve Shelley on drums, Ron Asheton of Stooges fame on guitar and an as-yet-undisclosed vocalist; earlier recordings by this line-up featured Mudhoney's Mark Arm on lead vocals and yielded two tracks tentatively to be included on the soundtrack to the film Velvet Goldmine. The new sessions are being undertaken with an eye to releasing a full album. Don Fleming (ex Gumball and Velvet Monkeys) is producing.
