MUSK NOW! By Mike Cooper

Washington, D.C., band Jawbox are releasing an album this month called 'For Carnie and Wendy Wilson are continuing work on an album together, despite Your Own Special Sweetheart" (on Atlantic Records), recorded Baltimore.in The the comparative lack successof theirof Christmas album "Hey Santa!" "We want LP was produced by Ted Niceley (Nirvana). This the four-member band's third our new sound to be innovative and fresh," Wendy Wilson says. "When people album. Jawbox will be touring the U.S. this month. hear the music, hopeI they will say think'I knowI those voices, but this sound is very original It's ' delicatea mix pop,of rock and country." Release of a Nilsson double-CD boxed-set has been delayed three months lightin of his recent death from heart failure. Nilsson had been working on the boxed set for "Swamp Ophelia" theis title of th t Indigo Girls album coming out this spring. almost yeara and had completed the package's liner notes just fewa days before he The LP will feature Jane Siberry the Roches, Lisa Germano and Chuck died hisin sleep. The set will be called "Personal Best — The Harry Nilsson Leave!! Anthology." willIt include four or five previously unreleased tracks from early 1967 and 1969 sessions. "Personal Best" nowis set for release theat end Julyof Cypress Hill have donated $10,000 ato New York City gun buy-back scheme. 8-Real presented checka Fernandoto Mateo. whose "Goods For Guns" program Celine Dion goes on her first headlining tour of the U.S. this month, beginning began Decemberin offering gift certificates for guns. in San Francisco. Pop-country band Exile is breaking up after 16-yeara career that begin with "Kiss Slayer soon begin recording their first new album in over three years, for release You All Over Drummer Steve Goetzman says the split is "very amicable." in the middle thisof year. The LP will be the first to feature drummer Paul "We're all going our separate ways," he says, adding that the group's members Bostaph, formerly of Forbidden. Vocalist and bass player Tom Araya says the will keep ownership theof name so they can reunite the"if country fans out there album may be influenced forensicby a psychiatry book he's read called "Alone ever get sick allof the new faces." With The Devil." gave"II me insights into the psychology of various types crim-of inal behavior" Araya says. dealt"It with the various aspects theof crimimal mind, Officials cancelled an Onyx concert Appletonat High School East in Wisconsin, the main reasons why people kill. There's the heat of the moment type, the pre- after deciding the rap group's music was not appropriate for high school students. meditated kill, the 'all aof sudden wentI crazy and didI what did I but don'tI know The concert promoter says he'll file suit against the Appleton School District over why' type of kill. tookI those ideas and tried presentto them my way, to try and the cancellation, though the district says the promoter didn't get necessarya "spe- put them together ain song. There's songa that's along the lines aof love affair, cial events" permit for the show. but based upon the cruelties of one infamous serial killer, whose name won'tI give away just yet." Slayer are planning to tour extensively supportin theof new album.

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SINGLES ALBUMS 1 1 D:ream I inngs Can Only Get Better' (3rd week) d 1 Chaka Demus Pliers& r&clse Me" 7 2 Toni Braxton "Breathe Again" 1 2 Diana Ross "One Woman — The Ultimate Collection" 2 3 Sting, Bryan Adams Rod& Stewart 'All For Love" 2 3 Dina Carroll "So Close" 9 4 Enigma "Return To Inn6cence” 3 4 Bryan Adams "So Far So Good" 3 5 K7 "Come Baby Come" 4 5 Bjork "Debut" 4 6 Tori Amos "Corn flake Girl" 5 6 M People "Elegant Slumming" 20 7 Celine Dion "The Power Of Love" 7 7 Phil Collins "Both Sides" 6 8 Culture Beat "Anything" 9 8 Mar/ah Carey "Music Box" d 9 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give Away"It 11 9 Eternal 'Always Forever"& 10 10 Haddaway "I Miss You" 8 10 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell II" 5 11 Chaka Demus Pliers& "Twist Shout"& 6 11 Take That Everything Changes" d 12 Deep Forest "Sweet Lullaby" 34 12 d. k lang Ingenue" 17 13 Richard Marx "Now Forever"& 10 13 Wet Wet Wet End Of Part One (Their Greatest Hits)" 13 14 Garth Brooks "The Red Strokes" 14 14 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell" 11 15 East 17 "Ifs Alright" 16 15 Michael Bolton The One Thing" 12 16 Eternal "Save Our Love" 18 16 East 17 Walthamstow" 16 17 Bobby Brown w/ Whitney Houston "Something In Common" 12 17 UB40 Promises Lies"& d 18 Rozalla "I Love Music" 13 18 Elton John Duets" d 19 Orb "Perpetual Dawn" 15 19 Cypress Hill Black Sunday" 14 20 Bitty McLean "Here Stand"I 17 20 REM Automatic For The People"

epeche Mode, ZZ Top, Therapy? was produced Brussels....in Tin Red Hot Chili Peppers changed record companies and their former and the Dee ms drop out theol lop were originally called Anthem.. ..Zambian singer re-issued "Perpetual Dawn."....Aretha Franklin has 20 singles this week, while Soul II Rozalla's O'Jays cover comes from the soundtrack theto released the single 'A Deeper Love," her first since CD Soul and Pearl Jam slide out of the new Bryan DePalma film "Carlito's Way" which stars Al "Everyday People" in 1991.... There's livea album out from top 20 albums....Celine Dion moves up the chart with her Pacino.... reached number in 8 1992 with "Blue a concert that took place Helsinkiin last June 12 involving cover of Jennifer Rush's 1985 hit... Deep Forest's sin- Room," the longest single ever chartto Britain.in running the Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys and a gle, already hita partsin Europeof yeara ago, uses sam- 39 minutes and 58 seconds. Their new four-minute single Russian army chorus. The show mixed western rock music ples recordingsof pygmyof music made by UNESCO in is a remix aof track from their album 'Adventures Beyond and traditional Russian music. Among the tracks on the LP the central African rainforests. The band's self-titled album The Ultraworld." The two DJs last charted with "Little is a version ZZof Top's "Gimme All Your Lovini" is yet beto released Britain.in The LP from Frencha duo, Fluffy Clouds" theat end of last year. The Orb have just

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