NO MOSS: While Mick Jagger has been...

NO MOSS: While Mick Jagger has been off making a movie, Keith Richards has been busy making music. The Rolling Stones guitarist has been writing songs with Tom Waits for Richards’ next solo album and recently visited John Lee Hooker in the recording studio, where he played guitar on a new version of “Crawling King Snake” for Hooker’s upcoming album. . . . Speaking of Waits, you can hear his distinctive freight-train yowl on “Tommy the Cat,” one of the new cuts on “Sailing the Seas of Cheese,” the new album from Bay Area rockers Primus. The band’s first Interscope Records release, due May 14, also features such loopy thrash-pop tunes as “Sgt. Baker,” “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” and “Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers.” Watch for another version of “Tommy the Cat” to show up on the soundtrack to “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey,” due this summer from Orion Pictures. . . . And Poison, the only rock group whose publicists issue press releases when band members punch each other out (a recent release touted a Bret Michaels-C.C. DeVille bout at the Meridian Hotel in New Orleans), is putting out a live album later this fall. Titled “Swallow This Live,” the record features a host of Poison hits. It also offers five new studio tracks, including “Souls of Fire,” “Only Time Will Tell,” “No More Looking Back” and “So Tell Me Why.”