AND NOW HERE’S THE NEWS: Pop choreographer...

AND NOW HERE’S THE NEWS: Pop choreographer turned songstress Toni Basil (remember “Hey Micky”?) is back, co-directing and staging David Bowie’s upcoming world tour, which hits the road Saturday in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Due here by late July, the tour is something of a reunion for Basil and Bowie, who first worked together when Basil did the choreography for the Thin White Duke’s 1974 “Diamond Dogs” tour. Basil will hit the silver screen this fall in “Slaughterhouse Rock,” a low-budget rock-horror comedy. She slated to sing the Devo-written title track from the picture. . . .

Wang Chung, who had a song on “The Breakfast Club” sound track and did the score for “To Live and Die in L.A.,” will have another song--the band’s current single, “Hypnotize Me”--in the upcoming Joe Dante-directed film, “Innerspace,” which opens July 2. . . . Jazz vocal wiz Bobby McFerrin will be the guest host on the VH-1 Network’s “New Visions” show tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. Instead of just introducing the video clips, McFerrin will sing the credits in his distinctive a-cappella style. . . .

The Bluesbusters, L.A.’s bar-band extraordinaire, will be back on Landslide Records at the end of June with a new album, titled “This Time.” It features a host of new tunes, including “Six O’Clock News,” two duets (“Comes From the Heart” and “Too Much Pain and Not Enough Paradise”) with guest-vocalist Bonnie Raitt and a rousing cover version of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up.” . . . And songstress Victoria Williams will make her debut on Geffen Records in July with a self-titled new album. It features such originals as “Frying Pan,” “Big Fish,” “Statue of a Bum” and a new version of the Rev. James Cleveland’s gospel number, “I’ll Do His Will.”