With the demise of The Transplants now official, two new groups have sprung up in their wake: Expensive Tastes and Plus-44.

Expensive Tastes are comprised of Travis Barker (who you might know from Blink-182 as well as The Transplants), Transplants singer "Skinhead" Rob Aston and Paul Wall, who met the other two when he did the Screwed And Chopped remix version of last year's final Transplants album, Haunted Cities. They discovered that they shared mutual interests in music, tattoos and Cadillacs, which led to the formation of their new group.

So far they've completed three songs for their "straight up hip-hop" debut album: "Hold Up," "Slidin' On That Oil" and "My Medicine." "Paul and me, we're just talking about what we do — our cars, getting loaded, having fun," is how Aston described the group's lyrical slant to MTV News.

Barker has also added another numerical side project to his resume. Plus-44 are an electronic-tinged rock band that also features Blink-182's Mark Hoppus and Carol Heller, who was formerly in Get The Girl. But the word on message boards is that Heller has already left the group due to "trouble with the band members."

Tim Armstrong, the third member of The Transplants, is still busy with Rancid.

- Phil Villeneuve