SMALL FACES

MTV has lined up the Goo Goo Dolls, Blink-182, Christina Aguilera and 98 Degrees to perform on a New Year’s Eve show it will air live from New York’s Times Square. More guests are expected to be added for the telecast, which will compete with, among others, CBS’ airing of a White House-sponsored event on the Washington Mall being organized by Quincy Jones and Steven Spielberg. . . .

English techno star Roni Size and his Reprazent crew have started work on the follow-up to their 1998 debut, which won the prestigious Mercury Prize as the best work by a British artist that year. Everything but the Girl’s Ben Watt has done a guest acoustic guitar spot for the album. Size is taking a break to deejay on some U.S. shows by Breakbeat Era, whose new album he co-produced. . . .

On the heels of the recent Cult reunion, leader Ian Astbury’s debut solo album, “Natural Born Guerrilla,” is due Jan. 18 on Beggars Banquet, the same day the label reissues the entire Cult catalog. There are also plans for a boxed set next August. . . .

There’s talk that the Cure’s “Bloodflowers,” due in February, could be the final album for the veteran band. Founder Robert Smith says that the album, full of long, dark songs, is the finale of a trilogy, following 1982’s “Pornography” and 1989’s “Disintegration”--two particularly bleak collections. The band’s deals with Elektra in the U.S. and Polydor elsewhere expire soon, and Smith has reportedly made no moves to renew. *