KEEP THE FAITH: Marianne Faithfull opens a...

KEEP THE FAITH: Marianne Faithfull opens a month-long tour Thursday at New York’s Bottom Line, which will bring her to Los Angeles April 19 and 20 at the Roxy. If you want an early preview of some of her live material, look for a new live album she’s releasing on Island in early April, which will feature Faithfull classics like “Broken English” and “Sister Morphine” as well as such new material as Edith Piaf’s “Prisons of Roi” and an Irish folk tune called “She Moves Through the Fair.” The live disc was recorded last November with an all-star band including Dr. John, Garth Hudson and guitarist Marc Ribot. If her mood is right, perhaps Faithfull will also perform a new song she did on her recent Irish tour, “Conversations on a Barstool,” which was penned for her by the lads in U2. . . . Having ditched the Commotions, Lloyd Cole is releasing his first solo album next week on Capitol Records. Self-titled, it offers such new songs as “Downtown,” “Mercy Killing” and “No Blue Skies,” written after a visit to Los Angeles. . . . And Speaking of L.A.: Heart’s Ann Wilson, noting the mass exodus of Angeleno types for her native Seattle, says: “Some folks here are not too pleased about it. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read: ‘Go have a nice day somewhere else.’ ”