SMALL FACES

T-Boz of TLC guested with Paula Cole on “I Wanna Be Somebody” for Cole’s next album, “Amen,” due Sept. 28. The first single, to be released earlier, is a song called “I Believe in Love.” . . .

Rob Zombie is following director John Carpenter as designer of Universal Studios’ Halloween attraction. As Carpenter was last year, Zombie is being given free rein to fashion a fright-night extravaganza in a sound stage, which will open Oct. 15 and run the three following weekends, culminating, of course, on Oct. 31. . . .

Van Halen is in the studio writing for the band’s next album, its second with singer Gary Cherone. Expect it to be out before next summer. . . .

The No Limit Tru team featuring Mystikal has recorded the title song for “Light It Up,” a movie starring Usher and produced by Tracey Edmonds with the music overseen by her husband, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. DMX, Eminem and 112 have also contributed to the soundtrack, with the album due Oct. 19. . . .

Kool Keith, Public Enemy’s Flava Flav and Wu Tang Clan’s Killa Priest are among the guests on “Intonamuri,” a new album by producer-bassist Bill Laswell’s Material, due Sept. 21. . . .

Tricky’s new label, Durban Poison, which had been set to be distributed by DreamWorks Records before that company got caught up in the Universal Music merger, will now make its debut through independent channels Sept. 21 with “Ad Finite” by influential English breakbeat act Genaside II. Genaside’s Chris Bonez will deejay to open dates on Tricky’s fall U.S. tour. . . .