It's hard to care much about anything Dave Navarro does these days. Mainly because he doesn't seem to care much either.

The former guitarist for Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers -- and current MTV poster boy and Rock Star host -- now seems to view making music as simply one of many means to achieve his celebrity-status ends.

So you gotta question his commitment to The Panic Channel, his band du jour with Jane's drummer Stephen Perkins, one of Alanis's old bassists and some singer who used to be an MTV VJ.

Of course, if you hear their album, you'll be asking something else: What the heck were they thinking? (ONe) is a dated, uninspired rehash of every post-grunge riff, cliche and bellow from the late '90s.

Sure, it rocks out in a Pearl Jam-meets-Soundgarden-meets-Foo Fighters kinda way, with the occasional splash of funkier fare bubbling up from Navarro's past. But it's also so generic that the disc's cover art should be a white label with a bar code.

Not that it matters, of course -- six months from now, Navarro will likely have forgotten all about The Panic Channel and be off hosting some other crappy reality show.

You, luckily, don't have to wait three months to forget about them.

Track Listing:

1. Teahouse of the Spirits
2. Left to Lose
3. Bloody Mary
4. Why Cry
5. Awake
6. She Won't Last
7. Said You'd Be
8. Outsider
9. Blue Bruises
10. Night One
11. Listen
12. Lie Next to Me
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