MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’: The Bangles have a...

MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’: The Bangles have a new manager--Arnold Stiefel--who just celebrated six years of working with Randy Phillips by renaming his management firm, Stiefel Phillips Entertainment. Stiefel also handles Rod Stewart (giving him two clients with Top Ten-bound singles), Gene Loves Jezebel and Andy Taylor. . . . Willie Dixon is in high gear. The blues legend finally won a Best Traditional Blues Recording Grammy--on his fifth try--for his recent “Hidden Charms” album. (And according to an MCA spokesman, Dixon’s “The Chess Box” collection is selling “beyond our wildest projections.”). . . . The new live Graham Parker album, due this week from RCA, features two new tunes--”Soul Corruption” and “3 Martini Lunch”--plus a cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” . . . Meanwhile, our Rip Off of the Month goes to “Dylan & the Dead,” a new live album recorded during the course of six Dylan and Dead concerts in July 1987. Instead of making the rare collaboration into a major event, Columbia Records simply threw together an embarassingly thin album. Out of six shows, all Columbia could salvage was a paltry seven songs, including the already over-recorded “All Along the Watchtower” and “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” . . . While X is on hiatus, drummer D.J. Bonebrake has joined Jimmie Wood and the Immortals, the club-scene vets who are currently finishing up a new album. . . . And contrary to our garbled account last week, “The Ray Charles Story” is the first music-bio project due from New Visions Pictures, a new production company headed by Taylor Hackford. New Visions’ first film, “Rooftops,” is due out March 17.