SMALL FACES: A spokesman for David Bowie...

SMALL FACES: A spokesman for David Bowie insists that reports that Tin Machine’s upcoming live album would mark the end of the group are not correct, and that the band plans to record a third studio album. He also said that Bowie is currently without a solo recording contract and has not been in negotiations, though rumors that the Thin White Duke has signed to Geffen have been circulating for months. (Come to think of it, isn’t Geffen signing everybody of interest these days?) . . .

Artist H.R. Giger is back in the album cover business, providing the art for evil-monger Danzig’s upcoming “How God Kills” album. Giger is best known for the horrific fantasies that graced Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Brain Salad Surgery” and Deborah Harry’s “Koo-Koo”--not to mention the poster that got Jello Biafra prosecuted (he was acquitted) for distributing allegedly obscene material, as well as the design of the “Alien” monsters. . . .

KISS unearthed a 1981 track including a drum solo by Eric Carr, who died of cancer late last year after 12 years as the group’s drummer, and will include it in the new album “Revenge,” slated for a May 19 release. The solo is said to be the only one ever recorded by Carr.