Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains: Jar of Flies (Columbia) - THE NEAT TRICK Alice in Chains pulled off a coupla weeks ago when their third EP Jar of Flies (Columbia) zipped to the No. 1 position on Billboard's album chart is not entirely unprecedent-ed, even if the sluggish retail cli-mate that allows nonhousehold names to bumrush the chart tradi-tionally comes later in the season.

Ruslan Katronov for Lost in Nirvana.