On October 2, you can musically smoke 'em if ya got 'em in San Bernardino, California.

That's when Cypress Hill plans to hold its second annual Smoke Out festival, featuring such rock and rap acts as the Deftones, KRS-One, Ozomatli, Gang Starr, and the Long Beach Dub All-Stars.

Others scheduled to pack 'em in at the Orange Show Events Center include De La Soul, Fishbone, the World Famous Beat Junkies, Tijuana No, SX-10, Delinquent Habits, a slew of turntable and DJ acts, and a "surprise 4:20 act."

Expected to draw some 20,000 people, Smoke Out '99 will also have such fair-like festivities as carnival rides, a haunted house, a "psychedelic" light show, and several dance tents.

Cypress Hill has also pushed up the U.S. release date for its Spanish-language album "Los Grandes Exitos En Español," from February 2000 to October 19. The record, a collection of 13 Hill songs with the vocals re-done in Spanish, will also feature a new studio track, a collaboration

with Mexican rappers Control Machete.

Next month, Cypress Hill plans to issue the Spanish version of "How I Could Just Kill a Man" and a track from its upcoming English-language record, "Skull and Bones," as new singles.

"Skull and Bones," Cypress Hill's fifth studio album, is due out on January 4, 2000.

-David Basham