Giving jazz the business
	Can major labels make the music pop? by JON GARELICK

Untouchable Korn reclaim their spot at the top by SEAN RICHARDSON

Young guns New Found Glory's teen punk is true by SEAN RICHARDSON

Local Anesthesia: Musicians are flakes . . . . . . and other realities of the music biz by BOB GULLA

Since finding a home a few years back on Mike Patton's Ipecac label, toxic-sludge kings the Melvins have been given free rein to do whatever the hell they please. And they sure haven't wasted the opportunity. Release a three-album trilogy in the span of nine months? Sure. Follow it up with a "live" improvisational album? No problem. Follow that with a live document of a one-off performance that had the Melvins on stage with Patton's Fantomas at the same time? You got it. The Melvins are currently out in support of yet another new disc, Hostile Ambient Takeover. And they're touring with new labelmates Isis -- Boston's own heaviest band in the universe. Ipecac will release Isis's Oceanic, which features guest spots from 27's Ayl Naor and Maria Christopher and marks a bit of a departure from their past efforts, later this year. Both bands hit Toad's Place (203-562-5589) in New Haven on Sunday; Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont, on Monday; the Met Café (401-861-2142) in Providence on Tuesday; and the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on Wednesday.

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