HarperCollins has secured worldwide rights for a full-color U2 photo retrospective book, a source confirms to Billboard.com. The volume will likely be penned by journalist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame curator Jim Henke, who oversaw the museum's recent U2 exhibit, "In the Name of Love: Two Decades of U2."

The book is expected to feature a bounty of rare visual material from throughout U2's career. No release date has been announced, but initial plans called for it to hit shelves around the same time as U2's in-progress next Interscope studio album, which is expected by the end of the year.

In related news, U2 frontman Bono has donated 200 sets of five prints he illustrated in conjunction with a new CD/book of Prokofiev's "Peter & the Wolf" to the Irish Hospice Foundation. For more information, visit the project's official Web site.

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

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Independent music distributor the Orchard has announced an exclusive digital distribution and promotion partnership with Byrds founder Roger McGuinn.

Under the partnership, the Orchard will distribute McGuinn's new release, "Limited Edition." The set will be exclusively available at MP3 subscription service eMusic for 90 days starting April 1. It will then be available at all legitimate digital music services in the U.S., Europe and Australia via the Orchard's distribution network.

The physical CD of "Limited Edition" will be available via McGuinn's Web site and Amazon.com. McGuinn was an early supporter of digital music and online distribution; in 1995, he began recording and uploading a set of traditional folk songs to his site.

-- Christopher Walsh, N.Y.

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Prolific singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is offering a three-track EP for sale via Apple's iTunes download store. The "Moroccan Role" EP boasts the songs "Ah, Life," "I'm Coming Over" and "Don't Even Know Her Name."

In addition, Adams' two recent "Love Is Hell" EPs will be combined onto a single 15-track disc to be issued May 4 by Lost Highway. The EPs debuted late last year on The Billboard 200 at No. 78 and No. 171, respectively.

Adams has been sidelined since injuring his wrist in a Jan. 22 fall from a Liverpool, England, stage. "[I'm] currently doing stuff but its none of anybody's business and get out of my yard before I hit you with a rake," Adams says by way of an update on his official Web site, which also features post-operative pictures of his injury.

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.

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Rock act Brides Of Destruction has set a spring North American club and theater tour that will kick off April 30 in Clifton Park, N.Y. The brief Honeymoon From Hell run will precede June dates on the European festival circuit, which will be followed by another stateside tour in July.

"I feel brand new again," bassist Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) says of the band, which is rounded out by L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns, singer London LeGrand and drummer Scot Coogan. "The Brides are out to put the danger back in rock and roll." The group's debut, "Here Come the Brides" (Sanctuary), debuted last week at No. 12 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums sales chart and No. 92 on The Billboard 200.

Here are Brides Of Destruction's tour dates:

April 30: Clifton Park, N.Y. (Northern Lights)
May 1: We: Springfield, Va. (Jaxx)
May 2: Norfolk, Va. (NorVa)
May 3: Baltimore (Thunderdome)
May 5: New York (CBGB)
May 6: Boston (Paradise Rock Club)
May 7: Hartford, Conn. (Webster Theatre)
May 8: Sayreville, N.J. (Starland Ballroom)
May 9: Philadelphia (Trocadero)
May 11: Toronto (Opera House)
May 12: Pittsburgh (Mr. Small's Theatre)
May 13: Cleveland (Odeon)
May 14: Detroit (Majestic Theatre)
May 15: Chicago (Metro)

-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.