AND WAIT, THERE’S MORE: Is there a...

AND WAIT, THERE’S MORE: Is there a new generation ready to rediscover the Sex Pistols? Restless Records will find out March 25 when it releases “Better Live Than Dead,” an album (and CD) chock-full of 1977-era Sex Pistols club performances (with the band’s pre-Sid Vicious line-up). . . . “I’m Your Man,” Leonard Cohen’s first new album in four years, will be out April 4 from Columbia Records. In addition to the title cut, it features “First We Take Manhattan” and “Ain’t No Cure for Love” (two Cohen songs first performed by Jennifer Warnes) as well as “Jazz Police” and “Tower of Song”. . . . And the new, specially priced Echo & the Bunnymen maxi-single has more than just the band’s latest release, “Bedbugs and Ballyhoo.” The real treat is on the B-side, which offers a trio of cover tunes, recorded during a 1985 Swedish concert swing. The songs include remakes of the Velvet Underground’s “Run Run Run,” the Rolling Stone’s “Paint It Black” and Tom Verlaine’s “Friction” (which we think would sound great on KROQ). No one’s promising that the group will do as many covers when they wrap up their U.S. tour April 2 and 3 at the Universal Amphitheatre. But it’s been known to happen--the current live cuts date from a Scandinavian tour where the band actually opened for themselves, doing cover material by Bob Dylan, the Talking Heads and other favorites.