Marizane rubbing important elbows

Their unreleased album has been collecting dust for 10 years, but Todd Jaeger and Debbie Shair -- the duo behind the pop act Marizane -- will be keeping company with Brian Wilson, David Bowie, the Byrds, the Smiths, the Ramones and X come March.

That’s when “Mayor of the Sunset Strip,” a documentary chronicling the life of KROQ deejay and rock scenester Rodney Bingenheimer, will open. Marizane performs the movie’s title track, which will appear on the 17-song soundtrack alongside numbers by those rock luminaries. The album will be released March 18 on the Shout! Factory label.

The lyrics to “The Mayor of the Sunset Strip” were penned by the movie’s co-producer (and Dramarama co-founder) Chris Carter, who “originally had Joey Ramone in mind for the job, before he died,” Jaeger says.

The tune represents another small step toward putting Marizane on the map. The band recorded an album, “Hypercube Sideshow,” with producer Tony Visconti (Bowie, T. Rex, Sparks) in the early 1990s, but, Jaeger says, “it has just kind of sat there on the shelf.”

And so, for five years, did the band, while keyboardist Shair tried to overcome thoracic outlet syndrome, a debilitating condition that affects the upper extremities. “I blew my arm out by doing way too much computer work -- I couldn’t even eat with a fork,” she says. “I thought I would never play keyboards again.... It was almost like I had to turn myself off to the idea of music.”

With Shair rehabbed to the point that she can play the piano standing up, Marizane is working on “Cosmosis,” an album they hope to have completed in May. A five-song EP of the band’s glammy pop, “Stage One,” was released in August; it included three of the songs produced by Visconti.

“It’s been such a long process,” Shair says. “It’s very exciting.”