Wiedlin Starts Painful Label Venture

Go-Go's guitarist and songwriter Jane Wiedlin has established her own label to release her fourth solo album. Wiedlin's "Kissproof World" will be released Tuesday (Oct. 31) on her newly formed Painful Discs label.

"Kissproof World" is Wiedlin's follow-up to the 1990's EMI America release "Tangled," the title track of which appeared on that year's "Pretty Woman" soundtrack. The artist's highest solo chart placement came with the single "Rush Hour," which peaked at No. 9 on The Billboard Hot 100 in July 1988.

The original Go-Go's lineup -- Wiedlin, Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, and Kathy Valentine -- reunited in 1999 and the group planned to release its first studio album in 15 years, followed by a tour. But those plans got switched around, as the group instead toured the U.S. this summer, and plan to release a new album in spring 2001.

In the meantime, Wiedlin is busy in several other ventures. The sometime actress, who played Joan Of Arc in the 1989 film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," has also lent her voice to animated characters on such television series as Fox' "King Of The Hill" and the WB's "Pinky And The Brain." In upcoming roles, Wiedlin will play a coffee shop owner on the MTV series "Spyder Games," and will appear as herself in an episode of ABC's "The Drew Carey Show."