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Then they snapped up established brands like American Top 40 and Rockline and acquired marketing Report Deadline Tuesday, 5:30om Eastern Jacor Closes $620 Million rights for The Bob & Tom Show. What's next for Chancellor's AMFM network? David Kantor and Gary Krantz spill in this Nationwide Deal Publisher week's Cover Story. Kal Rudman •Closing Spurs PD Shuffle— Greg Ausham To WMMS, Bob 29 Executive VP/GM Neumann To Chancellor's DC101— Sparks Appointment Of Six Fred Deane New Market Managers, and Several Swaps and Spin-Offs fdeaneettnqbniall.com •Chancellor Stormtroops Cleveland With $275 Million Six-Station Buy Auditorium vs. Personal vs. Internet Music VP/Executive Director •Elektra's Pete Rosenblum Replaces Paul Brown In Arista Rock Post listing: Paragon's Chris Porter shows how Paul Heine •More Modern Defections: WAQZ To Top 40, KPOI Th Active Rock the three different methodologies stack up in [email protected] •GulfStar Reports 19% 25-54 Increase At StarSystem Stations critical areas. [!4 VP/Managing Director •Exiting PDs: Stewart (WHEB-WGIR), Mann (KRAD), Slayter (KNCN) Mike Boyle •Jacor Lodges Unfair Competition Suit Against CBS Market Manager [email protected] •Ryko To Merge With Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures Administrative Director •FCC Spanks WXTB With Indecency Fine Over Bubba Broadcasts Judy Swank •WRCN Names Morning Man Chez PD iswanketmqbmaitcom •Arbitron And Edison To Study Internet Radio Listening .PJ Associate Director MUSIC NEWS Jay Gleason (7 pgleason@fmqbmail com Modern Rock Director INTERSCOPE Leg; •New R.E.M. Album, Up, Due October 27 Michael Parrish [email protected] •Pearl Jam Add D.C. Benefit Show Th U.S. Thur NOTHING •Garbage To Tour U.S. In September Progressive Director k Sybil McGuire MARILYN MANSON MODERN ROCK CRACKER [email protected] "The Dope Show" "The Good Life" Progressive Specialist/ or Advertising Coordinator • Crossroads: Mass Exodus To Mancow Kevin Boyce CC •Modern Picks: New Cracker. Hootie kboyce @ fmqbmail.com o • Liner Notes: Corgan/Love Update or Modern Rock Specialist Mike Bacon PROGRESSIVE ADULT RADIO mbacon@fmqbmail com • Progressive Picks: The Deluge Continues. Can Metal Radio Specialist HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH FEAR FACTORY We Blame This On El Niño? Bram Teitelman "I Will Want" "Resurrection" •Pro-Formers: Susan Tedeschi And Three More bteitelman@fmqbmail com Winners Research Specialist • PAR-File: Capricorn's Randall Bramblett Kathy Wagner MORE PREMIER PICKS: ICOS •SUNCATCHER • [email protected] ACTIVE ROCK MARY CIHRIJFELLO •INDIGENOUS Art Director • KIOZ/San Diego Monitored. DEPTH TRAX: ROO STEWART 'BLUE OYSTER CULT ' Janet Drialo-McArdle • The Inside Track: WAAF welcomes STEVE POLTZ Designer Van Halen... WTPT's 2nd Birthday Grace Pletronaolo Blowout... CFOX's 1998 Chevy Malibu Ad Layout/Production Giveaway. #1 MOST ADDED #1 BUZZBAND Gina LaMaina METAL DETECTOR Assistant Art Director or o Maria King •KoRn, Manson Begin Their Metal Domination! cc 16 Volt and Pitbull Daycare Also Reviewed Production Assistant •Captain Howdy, Chuckle Subjects Of Cool Susan Adcock Soundtracks; ECW Rocks! Editorial/Research Assistants •Voivod Injured Van Accident Pat Berkery Chamase Parker Ruth Watts Theresa Mese moneRN AÇ SCREAMIN' CHEETAH SECOND COMING Ginny Reilly Michael Heim WHEELIES "Soft" Tom McCusker Amy Suarreto 138 PPW / 29 NEW "lbday's Music Alternative -100.5 The Zone." "Boogie King" Contributing Editors 184 PPW / 65 New Toni Barnes. Ted Bolton, John Sacramento's IMO is profiled in our Modern AC Bradley, Tom Calderone, Dennis Constantine. II/ Snapshot Plus: Top 25 Monitored Modern AC Jamb. Randy lane, Dave Lange, lorry Marshall. Mark Ramsey, Paul Seaton, Denny Some Airplay. Produttions, Pat Welsh CV 99N hadily Mortreaq Qtuirterl.lr .1001iin Rrport. All réglo. ertretvg/ let •1 pfddished E EVIL HAS RETURNED • CULA K FROM THI G BEAST Of KNOWN M. Active Rock BDS: 38-15* Mainstream BDS: Debut 25* #3 Most Requested hi Only 2 Weeks Flellbilly Deluxe In Stores August 25 U.S. Tour Starts October 6 Produced by Scott Humphrey & Rob Zombie G Management: Andy Gould/Jodie Wilson for AGM Worldwide GEFFEN 0 1998 Geffen Records, Inc. www.geffen.com 77'17=1,77117471 CRACKER, "THE GOOD LIFE," VIRGIN ICOS, "AT THE SPEED OF LIFE," SLIPDISC/MERCURY From the opening snare shot, through tremolo-soaked guitar, to surreal For their sophomore effort, Chicago-based ICOS travelled to lyrics about "feverish daydreams" and "a lesbian James Dean," Cracker London's legendary Abbey Road Studios to record what would drives one out of the park on their latest. "The Good Life" sounds like become At The Speed Of Life. "Every song on this album has a Ibm Petty on agood night. (In fact, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont contextual meaning on its own and with the song next to it," Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell show up on the album.) The arrange- vocalist/guitarist Danny McGuinness explains. "It was written, ment is stripped down to the point where every note and beat count... recorded and meant to be heard as along-playing album, quite a your mind fills in the remaining musical spaces. Loud, quiet, haunting, challenge in this era of CDs." With that being said let us focus on strange... this has it all. David Lowery and his high desert cowboys amp the album's first single, which happens to be the title track. "I up the energy at every pass, making "The Good Life" livable at any for- can't get the hook out of my head," KAZR's Paul Oslund says. mat that counts the word "Rock" in its acronym. Oh, and we don't mind "Rocks really well," adds WKQZ's Jack Lawson. ICOS might not saying this is the best Cracker since "Low." be ahousehold name right now, but that's all about to change. MARILYN MANSON, "THE DOPE SHOW," nothIng/INTERSCOPE SUNCATCHER, "TROUBLE," RESTLESS Judging from Marilyn Manson's recent output, the band have changed When a record company holds your release back because they '70s idols, switching from Alice Cooper to David Bowie. First, Mr. want to make sure they have their act together, you know they see Manson proclaimed he would never wear black again, and has been promise. That's exactly the case with Restless Records (who were seen sporting pastels lately. Then, the band covered Bowie's "Golden merging with New Regency and securing distribution with BMG Years" for the Dead Man On Campus soundtrack. Now, to complete at the time) and Suncatcher's debut album, which is aflowery, yet their transition from black pythons to feather boas, the band gives us muscular marriage of '60s psychedelia and sweet Brit-Poppy "The Dope Show." The first single from Mechanical Animals finds melodies. The lead track, "Trouble," is wistful and bittersweet, them reaching into the `70s Glam grab bag and concocting asong that with amemorable hook courtesy of chief songwriter and reluctant wouldn't have sounded out of place coming from Bowie's Ziggy group leader, Doug Hammond. Punchy guitars make this track Stardust period. This is the song that will take Manson to the mass- meaty enough for Rock signals like WTBK, who get on board early. es. Gone is the anger and much of the edge that marked Manson's work in the past. "The Dope Show" is the record that will finally get MARY CUTRUFELLO, "SHE CAN'T LET GO," MERCURY Manson into all dayparts. Don't be adope, add it. CILQ is first. Six years ago 27-year-old Yale graduate Mary Cutrufello packed- up her belongings, including her beloved Telecaster, threw them in HOOTIE &THE BLOWFISH, "I WILL WAIT," ATLANTIC/AG apick-up and drove to Houston for afuture date with destiny, her Having survived the hype of their mega-successful Cracked Rear View debut album, When The Night Is Through. Her core studio band debut unscathed, Hootie & The Blowfish's second album, Fairweather for this album reads like a who's who of Rock. There's Kenny Johnson, showed the South Carolina quartet lacked no shortage of Aronoff (John Mellencamp, John Fogerty), Bob Glaub (John more great songs that found ahome at avariety of radio formats. The Fogerty, Jackson Browne) and Wallflower member Rami Jaffee, first single from their third album, Musical Chairs, "I Will Wait," with additional help from Jim Keltner (John Lennon, Elvis sounds like another surefire radio smash that should be spinning Costello), Benmont Tench (Ibm Petty & The Heartbreakers), Was everywhere shortly. The band's lazy jangle resonates smoothly from (Not Was )'s Sweetpea Atkinson and Harry Bowens, as well as her start to finish, and adistinctly Mellencampy heartland vibe comes own bandmates Roland Denny and Dana Myzer. If you think that across loud and clear. You know this is going to be one of the biggest passion in Rock is afaded memory, your faith will be renewed with records to finish the year with, so don't let your Modern, Progressive "She Can't Let Go." or CHR neighbor beat you to the punch on this one.