Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SONIC YOUTH WORKS ON REISSUE SET Sonic Youth -- which is scheduled to release a new album, "Murray Street," in June -- is also working on three reissues. Advertisement Rolling Stone reported the first reissue, "Dirty," is scheduled for release this summer. "Daydream" and "Goo" will get the reissue treatment later -- all with new liner notes and a bonus CD containing new material. Singer-guitarist Thurston Moore said "Dirty" is pretty well ready to go. "We weren't too interested in putting live stuff on there," he said, "it would take forever to go through it. But there's lots of sort of weird stuff that we had on eight-track tape, like demos of us working out songs. And there's a couple of pieces that never came to fruition during the songwriting of that record that we discovered that we thought were kind of interesting. And there are all the B-sides that sort of existed around then. They'll be fully loaded, that's for sure." Advertisement Sonic Youth are also looking over 1986 concert tour footage, and asking fans with audiotapes from a handful of shows from that tour to lend the material for a movie that they hope to release some time this year. SOMETHING NEW IN MARKETING Zero 7 has a new wrinkle in marketing -- offering fans a free DVD-EP of "Destiny" with the purchase of the band's debut album, "Simple Things." The limited-edition DVD-EP is being promoted as the first time a DVD-EP has been offered for free with the purchase of an album. It contains the "Destiny" video -- a Top 5 video on MTV2 -- as well as a live performance of "Destiny" from a show at El Rey in Los Angeles. Zero 7's 11-piece band is led by founders Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns -- producers who have remixed Radiohead and Lenny Kravitz. PET SHOP BOYS TONE IT DOWN The Pet Shop Boys have left the spectacular production behind in favor of a relatively subdued show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York this week. The New York Daily News reported that the band -- once known for extravagant staging, outré costumes and avant-garde dancers -- performed on a relatively bare stage. Besides that, the paper reported that singer Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe even added two guitarists and a percussionist to go along with the usual assortment of synthesized dance beats provided by an offstage programmer. Advertisement "This is an evening with the new Pet Shop Boys," Tennant told the audience. The Boys devoted almost half the evening to songs from their new album "Release." ROD HIT WITH LAWSUIT A photographer has filed a lawsuit against Rod Stewart and his management company, Stewart Annoyances Ltd. (SAL), accusing the rocker of using two of her pictures without permission. Pat Morris-Evans is demanding $750,000 in her copyright-infringement suit, alleging that Stewart used the photos in a concert tour program and as the design on a tour T-shirt. Stewart and his company claim that Morris-Evans was paid $1,000 per photo -- which they said was the customary fee. The company also alleged in court papers that the pictures were unauthorized -- shot without permission on a closed set during the shooting of the video for "I Can't Deny It." 'NSYNC SINGER GETS HELP ON SPACE BID Lance Bass of 'NSync, who is competing with former NASA official Lori Garver for the next seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, has reportedly come up with a strong trump card -- support from a Los Angeles production company that would not only help pay the singer's freight on the mission, but also film his adventure for a TV special. Advertisement Bass and Garver have been undergoing medical tests in Moscow to evaluate their readiness for the mission. Russian space officials are holding a seat open for the October mission, even though some of those officials have their doubts that all the necessary paperwork can be finished in time for Bass to make the trip.
