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 in Baltimore. The the comparative lack of success of their 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, I hope they will say 'I think I know those voices, but this sound is very original ' It's a delicate mix of pop, rock and country." Release of a Nilsson double-CD boxed-set has been delayed three months in light of his recent death from heart failure. Nilsson had been working on the boxed set for "Swamp Ophelia" is the title of th t Indigo Girls album coming out this spring. almost a year and had completed the package's liner notes just a few days before he The LP will feature Jane Siberry the Roches, Lisa Germano and Chuck died in his sleep. The set will be called "Personal Best — The Harry Nilsson Leave!! Anthology." It will include four or five previously unreleased tracks from early 1967 and 1969 sessions. "Personal Best" is now set for release at the end of July Cypress Hill have donated $10,000 to a New York City gun buy-back scheme. 8-Real presented a check to Fernando Mateo. whose "Goods For Guns" program Celine Dion goes on her first headlining tour of the U.S. this month, beginning began in December offering gift certificates for guns. in San Francisco. Pop-country band Exile is breaking up after a 16-year 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 of this 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 of the name so they can reunite "if the country fans out there album may be influenced by a forensic psychiatry book he's read called "Alone ever get sick of all the new faces." With The Devil." "II gave me insights into the psychology of various types of crim- inal behavior" Araya says. "It dealt with the various aspects of the crimimal mind, Officials cancelled an Onyx concert at Appleton 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 of a sudden I went crazy and I did what I did but I don't know The concert promoter says he'll file suit against the Appleton School District over why' type of kill. I took those ideas and tried to present them my way, to try and the cancellation, though the district says the promoter didn't get a necessary "spe- put them together in a song. There's a song that's along the lines of a love affair, cial events" permit for the show. but based upon the cruelties of one infamous serial killer, whose name I won't give away just yet." Slayer are planning to tour extensively in support of the new album. Singer Robby Womack whose home in Sherman Oaks, California, was destroyed in the recent earthquake, took time to serve dinner to 12,000 people liv- ing al a Red Cross shelter in San Fernando. Compiled by MIKE COOPER kock Gun 1 he Qorict, 15rArff 7411 71V 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 It Away" 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 k d. 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 I Stand" 17 20 REM Automatic For The People" epeche Mode, ZZ Top, Therapy? was produced in Brussels.... Tin Red Hot Chili Peppers changed record companies and their former record label and the Dee ms drop out ol the 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 to the 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 a live album out from top 20 albums....Celine Dion moves up the chart with her Pacino....The Orb reached number 8 in 1992 with "Blue a concert that took place in Helsinki last June 12 involving cover of Jennifer Rush's 1985 hit... Deep Forest's sin- Room," the longest single ever to chart in Britain. running the Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys and a gle, already a hit in parts of Europe a year ago, uses sam- 39 minutes and 58 seconds. Their new four-minute single Russian army chorus. The show mixed western rock music ples of recordings of pygmy music made by UNESCO in is a remix of a 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 of ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovini" is yet to be released in Britain. The LP from a French duo, Fluffy Clouds" at the end of last year. The Orb have just THE HARD REPORT 50 FEBRUARY 1994 .