BY ROY TRAKIN

BOOMERS' LAST GASP: There apparently are some people who are still buying what Edgar Bronfman Jr. calls "round things," as last week's Top 10 album chart-with Santana, Steely Dan and AC/DC looked more like the '70s than the '00s. Toss in the 10-15K in online orders the Steely Dan album report- edly garnered on top of the 150K or so they did first -week through traditional retail and you have a pretty impressive sales figure for a band that hasn't released an album in 20 years... Ditto for the Internet -only sales of the " & Live At The Greek" CD, which literally blew out musicmaker.com's servers. A cross -promotion with participat- ing Rock radio Web sites landed the first track, "What Is And KISSING UP TO KALODNER: Squint Entertainment's Sixpence None What Should Never Be," on over 140 stations in the U.S.... Lotsa The Richer celebrate the Platinum status of their self -titled debut album oeople buzzing about venture by presenting plaques to ' John Kalodner and Rod S. :apitalist Stuart Alsop's spir- BOOBY PRIZE Kukla shortly before finding out the links to the Web's best foot fetish ted endorsement of Napster sites during one of those moments everyone is sorry they left their offi- in Fortune, with the added cial codpieces at home. Pictured wishing they knew where fillip he's considering an in- the rest of ZZ Top of were (l -r) Kukla, Squint EM Stephen Prendergrast, Kalodner and Squint Nat'l. Dir. of Promotion & Mktg. Lindsay Fellows. vestment in the controversial music search engine started by 19 -year -old college drop- out Shawn Fanning. The com- pany was also the subject of a surprisingly favorable N.Y. Times piece that had some- one downloading "Play That Funky Music, White Boy," which they identified as a song by James Brown. Wild Cherry,call your lawyer... BLOODHOUND GANG: It's RETURN OF THE ONE -HIT all peek to him. WONDERS: Who needs Rage REELIN' IN THE BEERS : mark the release of their new Against the Machine when the most clever political agitpop album, "Reel Life Vol. 1," a compilation of their film soundtrack contri- butions, with a performance at L.A.'s House of Blues, where they set a around is being created by ? You heard me. Guinness Book record by downing 2,987 green beers in less time than it Those lovable 'Tubthumping" anarchists, who recently ripped took them to discover they misplaced their VIP wristbands and couldn't U.K. politician Tony Blair in a song of the same name, return get their valet parking validated. Pictured just before their bar tab was April 4 with the Republic/Universal release, "WYSIWYG" cut off are (l -r) the band's Paul Cantelon, KACD MD Nicole Sandler, ("What You See Is What You Get"). It's an entertaining genre - Minnie Driver, the band's Angela McCluskey, Josh Charles and Shark. flipping parody of 21st century foibles, complete with a Gregorian chant take on the Bee Gees' "New York Mining Disaster." Another novelty winner is the Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch," which is the biggest boost for the Discovery Channel since my cable system moved it up to 3... COMINGS & GOINGS: Lorraine Ali joins Newsweek after its year -long search to replace Karen Schoemer. Ben Edmonds is the new stateside editor of respected U.K. publication Mojo, while noted self -loathing M.O.T. castigator Eric Gladstone moves from the on -hiatus Raygun to the soon -to -be -weekly US... JUST DESSERTS: Ex -Virgin publicist Cindy Greer has joined L.A.- based Absolute Catering as Marketing & Event Director... Bobbi Cowan sent us some samples of Gourmet Peanut Butter DAYDREAM NIGHTMARE: Buddha Records releases "Lovin' Spoonful's created by country /actor Sorrells Pickard... SITU- Greatest Hits," with 26 digital tracks remastered from the recently redis- ATIONS: Nettwerk seeks a head of publicity for either its L.A covered original masters. Discovering their publishing has been sold and Dr N.Y. office. Call Dave Holmes (310) 855-0643 ex. 211... they're still .51,098,765 from recouping even after being inducted in the (The HITS management wants you to know that Roy Trakin's column is R&R Hall of Fame are (l -r) Buddha's Rob Santos, Mandana Eidgah & Alex Roy Trakin's column and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of HITS.) Miller, John Sebastian & the label's Eric Hodge & Frank Ursoleo.

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