Former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna will be joining Goth rock act Jack Off Jill onstage Monday night in Los Angeles at Doug Weston's Troubadour nightclub in order to help showcase the band and its unreleased album "Clear Hearts Grey Flowers."

The album was to have arrived on March 14, but with the recent closing of Risk Records' Los Angeles branch, the release date of the album now remains uncertain.

Vrenna (who produced the work) will be sitting in on the entire set as Jack Off Jill frontwoman Jessicka, bassist Robin Moulder, and guitarist Clinton Walsh perform a 40-minute free show with former Fluffy bassist Helen Storer on second guitar.

"After seeing him play several times with Nine Inch Nails, I feel honored to share the same stage with such an incredible drummer," Jessicka said of Vrenna's addition. "Since he produced the album, he knows the songs inside and out, bringing a whole new dimension to the live show."

Last year, Jack Off Jill got to try out some of its new material with drummer Norm Block of the defunct band Plexi while touring with Marilyn Manson.

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After unveiling their new album in Hollywood last week, the goth-rockers of Jack Off Jill have lined up a March 2000 release for the effort.

• "When I Am Queen"
• "Fear Of Dying"
• "Nazi Halo"
• "Rabbiteen"
• "Strawberry Gashes"
• "Author Unknown"
• "Vivica"
• "Witch Hunt"
• "Cinnamon Spider"
• "Underjoyed"
• "Surgery"
• "Star No Star"
• "Losing His Touch"
• "Clear Hearts Grey Flowers"
• "Love Song"

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Jack Off Jill is linking up with producer (and former Nine Inch Nails member) Chris Vrenna for its second album.

The group has replaced outgoing guitarist Scott Mitchell Putesky (see "Scott Mitchell Putesky Leaves Jack Off Jill, Contemplates Spooky Kids Release") with the band's original member, Michelle Inhell. Inhell joins lead singer Jessicka, bassist Robin Moulder, second guitarist Clinton Walsh (formerly of Psychotica), and drummer Norm Block (formerly of the defunct Plexi) on drums, replacing the now-departed Claudia.

The band "road tested" some of its new material while touring with Marilyn Manson earlier this year and is scheduled to start pre-production in July and record in August.

Former Nine Inch Nails drummer and programmer Vrenna is squeezing the sessions into a full slate of commitments. He's currently working on his own solo project, Tweaker, with guests including rapper Xzibit, David Sylvian, and others. The Tweaker album, "The Attraction To All Things Uncertain," is scheduled for release later this year.

He's also slated to tour with Tommy Lee in the former drummer's new project, Methods Of Mayhem, along with the Beastie Boys' Mixmaster Mike, if the band goes ahead with plans to play the Limp Bizkit-led Family Values tour.

Vrenna recently spent time in Atlanta composing tracks for Snoop Dogg's Outsiderz project and also worked with Snoop and Tommy Lee on "Lucky," a song destined for the soundtrack of the movie ""Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2."

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Scott Mitchell Putesky, a.k.a. SMP, a.k.a. the artist formerly known as Daisy Berkowitz, is no longer a member of Jack Off Jill, the band he joined last year after falling out with Marilyn Manson in 1996. By most accounts Putesky lost interest in his new group and wandered off after receiving a multi-million dollar settlement from Manson. Putesky himself is vague, but he tells MTV News that the parting was an amicable one. Jack Off Jill has yet to name a replacement.

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Bolstered by the recent addition of former Marilyn Manson guitarist Scott Putesky, Jack Off Jill is currently gearing up for a tour that kicks off Sunday in San Diego.

Putesky, who was known as Daisy Berkowitz while with Manson and is known as SMP around the Jack Off Jill camp, will make his debut with the band during a string of West Coast dates, and JOJ bassist and founding member Robin Moulder couldn't be happier about it.

"Obviously you guys know about having SMP in the band, which is awesome because I've been the main music writer this whole time, and now I have another writer," Moulder told MTV News recently. "That takes off a little pressure, and it also adds a whole new element of new directions in music and everything. It's just so good for the band in general to move forward so we have more options and more avenues."

One of those new avenues runs behind the drumkit, where the band recently saw another personnel change when Laura Simpson left the group.

"Our new drummer, Claudia, she lives in L.A. and we've been practicing with her pretty seriously for the last couple of weeks and it's just coming together so fast," Moulder said. "It's one of those things where it's just so obvious it's going to work, no problem. And she brings a lot of energy to the group as well, which is great for a drummer. So I'm very excited about it... It think it's going to be a lot fuller and a lot more interesting, because Scott is such a more experimental guitar player. Even through we're still going to be supporting the first album, he's going in and adding a lot of keyboard parts that I put on the album that we can't pull off live for one reason or another, and he's adding them on guitar now. So he's experimenting and adding different little things and different little touches of his own style. So it's going to be like tastier, I think." In addition to beefing up the band's older material, Putesky is also starting to pay off in the creative process as well.

"We've been kicking around some of Scott's stuff, some of my stuff, just seeing where it goes, and easily three or four songs could come together in no time," Moulder said. "And that's without even really hardly trying because we've been focusing so much on getting the old songs together with the new members that we really haven't put a lot of time into writing new material. But when we do spend that 15 minutes here or there saying, 'Hey, let's try this,' or I'll just play a riff and see what happens, and people will just start playing along to it, and it works out really great." [600k Audio]

Putesky's first recorded work with the band should turn up on a remix EP, tentatively titled "Heartfelt and Hateful Remixes" that is due this summer. Before that, here's where the revamped Jack Off Jill will be:

• 5/31 - San Diego, CA @ Cain's
• 6/1 -Scottsdale, AZ @ Atomic Cafe
• 6/2 - Los Angeles, CA @ Opium Den
• 6/3 - Corona, CA @ Showcase Theatre
• 6/4 - Ventura, CA @ Ventura Concert Theatre
• 6/6 - San Francisco, CA @ Co Co Dries
• 6/7 - Sacramento, CA @ Bojangles
• 6/12 - Hollywood, CA @ Dragonfly

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In a classic case of sticking to what you know, Scott Putesky (best known for his days as Marilyn Manson's guitarist Daisy Berkowitz) has joined another Florida-based goth rock outfit, Jack Off Jill.

Putesky has replaced guitarist Hoho Spade, and is currently writing new songs with the band and rehearsing for a tour that Jack Off Jill hopes to launch in the spring. Putesky told MTV News Online that he first crossed paths with the band on the Florida club circuit when he was with Manson (then playing under the name Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids).

"Jessicka and Robin Moulder are the heart of Jack Off Jill, and we've been friends for years," Putesky said of his new bandmates. "We live 20 miles apart, so it seemed natural."

Putesky is currently getting acquainted with Jack Off Jill's latest album, "Sexless Demons And Scars," in preparation for the tour.

"I only got the record a couple of months ago, and I found that I really like the material. It's not like I'll just be joining a cover band," the guitarist said.

Putesky noted that the band will release a remix EP this summer which will mark the debut of his first studio work with Jack Off Jill, and may include new material that he is currently writing with the band.

While he says that Jack Off Jill will become the focus of much of his creative energy, Putesky will continue his current project, an endeavor dubbed Three Ton Gate in which the guitarist wears different musical hats in creating music for soundtracks. Putesky said that, as the only member of Three Ton Gate, he can work on the project as his schedule allows and will continue to distribute his CDs via his website (at http://www.spookykids.com/threetongate/).

Putesky is also moving ahead with the wrongful termination lawsuit he filed against Marilyn Manson last year. As we first reported in September (see ), Putesky spent six years in Manson's band and left just before the band released "Anti-Christ Superstar." Putesky is seeking thousands of dollars in royalties, publishing rights, and performance fees he feels he is owed, and says that depositions will be taken in the case on May 4.

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