SMALL FACES: Dwight Yoakam has a live...

SMALL FACES: Dwight Yoakam has a live album, “Dwight Live,” due May 23, with a Tribune Television special around the same time. It was recorded in San Francisco on the final night of his tour last year and includes a version of Bill Monroe’s “Rocky Road Blues,” which Yoakam has never recorded before. A new Yoakam studio album is expected in October. . . .

Gang Starr’s Guru is finishing up his second hip-hop hybrid “Jazzmatazz” album, with guest appearances by Neneh Cherry (performing with her stepfather, avant-jazz trumpeter Don Cherry), Chaka Khan, Me’Shell NdegeOcello and jazzmen Freddie Hubbard and Branford Marsalis. It’s due in early summer. . . .

Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval has done a version of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” for a tribute album to the seminal English band (which became New Order after the 1980 suicide of singer Ian Curtis). Also set for the tribute are Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan (under the name Starchildren), Moby, Red Hot Chili Peppers Dave Navarro and Chad Smith, Kendra Smith and Girls Against Boys.*