POP EYE

SMALL FACES: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and a reunion of Weezer leaders Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharpe--who had split to return to college--head the cast on the soundtrack album for the youth comedy “Meet the Deedles,” due in March. Others on the ska- and surf-heavy album are Save Ferris, Goldfinger, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and Hepcat. . . .

Emmylou Harris makes a guest appearance on Vic Chesnutt’s just-completed “The Salesman Years After Bernadette,” a song cycle recorded in Nashville with the band Lambchop, a 12-piece ensemble of carpenters and other laborers who play regularly in Music City clubs. The album is due in May or June. . . .

Elvis Costello has assembled a collection of other artists performing songs he wrote or co-wrote, to be released in May by Rhino Records. Among those heard are Paul McCartney, Chet Baker, Rockpile featuring Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. . . .

With 1996’s “Electric Larryland” the first gold album of the band’s long career, the Butthole Surfers are finishing a follow-up, “After the Astronaut,” in Austin, Texas. The band’s guitarist, Paul Leary, is producing the collection, due in April. . . .

John Hiatt has recorded two new songs and new versions of three of his older tunes to be included on a 17-track best-of collection titled “Have a Little Faith in Me,” due March 31. The new version of the title track features backing by the vocal group the Persuasions, who also appear on one of the new songs. . . .

Collective Soul is set to start work Monday on a new album, to be titled “Dosage,” in a Miami studio, with an August or September release expected.