ALSO WORKING

…speaking to his Apple Music show Rocket Hour, ELTON JOHN revealed he’s been working with Metallica and Gorillaz. “I haven’t been doing any Elton stuff, but I’ve been doing great stuff with other people” … METALLICA’s Kirk Hammett, meanwhile, appears on Blessings And Miracles, one of three new LPs in the works from Carlos Santana (left). “All the notes are really, really juicy and powerful,” Santana told Australia’s ABC radio …Mersey cult Paul Simpson is preparing a new album by The Wild Swans. Flowers Of

Sulphur was recorded with help from Marty Willson-Piper of The Church, The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Ricky Maymi and Edgar Jones: titles include Lucifer’s Childhood and Witchcraft …EARTHLESS have been recording a fifth studio album in San Diego. “We have finished all the tracking, overdubs and seasonings,” they said. “It’s been a blast” … SOFT CELL have recorded 20 songs for a new LP, out early next year. “The new songs are still catchy, but a lot more worldly-wise,” Dave Ball told the Daily Star. “It’d be inappropriate for two 60-something men to try to write bouncy little pop numbers” …STING told AARP magazine, “I’m in the studio now, writing new songs, writing about who I am now. They’re coming slowly but surely. I never panic” …Stone

Gossard discussed new PEARL JAM (left) music with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio. “We’re always kind of recording and doing stuff. So, it wouldn’t surprise me if we did some more recording…”