While the current version of Primus takes...

While the current version of Primus takes a break, founder-bassist Les Claypool has reconvened the original members of the trio for the first time in six years under the new name Sausage. An album, “Riddles Are Abound Tonight,” is due next month, and the group--Claypool, guitarist Todd Huth and drummer Jay Lane--will open for Fishbone at the Hollywood Palladium on April 15.

Model-actress Milla (she was in “Dazed and Confused” and “Chaplin”) has a debut album, “The Divine Comedy,” due April 5. Lisa Bonet is directing a video for the first single, “Gentleman Who Fell,” with a cameo appearance by Harry Dean Stanton. . . .

Fresh from receiving a Grammy for best rap performance (duo or group), Digable Planets is finishing its second album, due May 31. . . .

Pre-music-career writings of Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon are among the essays being compiled by veteran journalists Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers for the book “She Said She Said: Women Writing About Rock, Pop and Rap.” Also among the 60 women represented in the collection will be former Jazz & Pop magazine editor Patricia Kennealy, “I’m With the Band” author Pamela Des Barres and New York Times film critic Janet Maslin. The book is due next year. . . .

Battery Acid, the band featuring former Mary’s Danish members Gretchen Seager, Louis Gutierrez and Chris Wagner, has signed with Geffen Records. The band expects to start recording a debut album in late spring. Seager and Gutierrez have also produced “Oostende 1994,” an album of music and spoken word written and performed by various visual artists, including Mike Kelley, Benjamin Weissman and Mythter. The album was just released on the independent Bigg Truck label.