SMALL FACES

Alanis Morissette, singing in French and Hungarian, heads the multicultural, multilingual cast of “The Prayer Cycle,” a new nine-movement chorale by composer Jonathan Elias that will be released by Sony Classical on March 16. Other featured vocalists include Linda Ronstadt (in Spanish), Salif Keita (Malian), James Taylor (French), the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Urdu) and Perry Farrell (doing a “personal chant”). . . .

The potentially volatile backstage goings-on of the Marilyn Manson/Hole tour will be chronicled by some of the participants, including the headliners, on a Web site being developed by Internet outlet SonicNet and Interscope Records. The site, still to be named, will be activated Feb. 24 and will also feature some audio and video content from shows. . . .

San Diego’s Blink-182 is working on the follow-up to its hit “Dude Ranch” album. Title candidates are “Does That Look Infected” and “Vasectomy, Vasecto-you.” . . .*