SMALL FACES

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is working on his solo debut for Clean Slate, the Sony/Work Group label run by Andy Slater, the manager of Fiona Apple and the Wallflowers. And to mark getting out of his Warner Bros. contract, Navarro is working on a deal to sell through his https://www.6767.com Web site a limited-edition vinyl issue of Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music,” the noise experiment Reed used to break his RCA deal. . . .

Rapper C-Murder is starting work on a new album for Master P’s No Limit Records. Discussions are underway with possible guest performers. . . . L.A.’s Mack 10 is also starting work on a new album, the soundtrack for “Thicker Than Water,” the independent movie he just completed shooting in which he stars with fellow rapper Fat Joe. . . .

Country-rock outfit the Old 97’s has just completed its second Elektra album with Andrew Williams (of the Williams Brothers) producing at Kingsway in New Orleans.