SMALL FACES: Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins, whose debut...

SMALL FACES: Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins, whose debut album “Gish” was one of 1991’s underground success stories, is getting ready to record its major-label debut, due from Virgin in September. . . . Justin Kreutzman, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzman, is reportedly working on a 35-minute Dead video, “Backstage Pass,” that incorporates footage ranging from 1964 home movies of the band shot by Jerry Garcia to recent state-of-the-art computer animation. . . .

The Wallflowers, a Los Angeles-based band that includes Bob Dylan’s singer-guitarist son Jacob, is at work on its Virgin debut album, due in August. . . . Many might wish they’d stayed scattered like dust in the wind, but Kansas is back. The group, including four out of five original members, will be recording a live album at the Whisky tonight. . . .

Here’s an odd coupling: Tone-Loc singing a Jimmy Buffett song. You’ll find it in the animated film “FernGully . . . the Last Rainforest,” where Tone is the voice of an iguana who considers devouring a shrunken human while singing “If I’m Goanna Eat Somebody (It Might as Well Be You),” written by Buffett and partner Michael Utley. . . .

AND ONE MORE THING: The Las Vegas wedding chapels have been busy. First Phil Joanou, who directed U2’s “Rattle & Hum,” and Imago Records A&R; head Kate Hyman tied the knot March 19 in the neon city--reportedly just 22 hours after they met at a U2 concert at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Then singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding and his longtime companion Denise Sullivan did the same a few days later. Harding is now in L.A. mixing his third album, with producer Steve Berlin.

On the unmarried front, Hole’s Courtney Love--recently wedded to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain--was granted an annulment of her first marriage to Leaving Trains leader Falling James. The pair apparently got married on a lark a few years ago, but never lived together as man and wife.