SMALL FACES

Ani DiFranco’s next album, due in the spring, will be a two-CD effort titled “Reveling/Reckoning.” She’s finished 28 tracks, including several instrumentals. Guest musicians include jazz-funk saxophonist Maceo Parker, avant-garde jazz trumpeter Jon Hassell and pedal steel player Lloyd Maines, father of Dixie Chick Natalie Maines. . . .

“De Sade--the Musical,” a rock theater presentation written by actor-singer Michael Des Barres, will debut May 4 at Hollywood’s West Coast Ensemble Theatre. The score, by Des Barres and composer Roger Greenwalt, has a glam undercurrent that Des Barres describes as “Keith Richards meets David Bowie with a whip.” . . .

Rhino Records is releasing separate collections of Emmylou Harris and her mentor, the late Gram Parsons, both due April 17. “Emmylou Harris Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years” features 45 songs from the ‘70s and ‘80s, including eight never before on U.S. CD releases. “Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology” draws on all of his ‘60s-’70s country-rock phases with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and two solo albums. . . .

Tom Waits’ “The World Keeps Turning,” the end-title song for Ed Harris’ movie “Pollock,” will be released on a soundtrack album due Feb. 13 from Unitone, the label run by frequent Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard. And on Feb. 6, Unitone is releasing a special expanded edition of the lone 1990 album by Toy Matinee, the duo of Leonard and the late Kevin Gilbert.