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This fall, even INXS lead singer MICHAEL HUTCHENCE, who's been dead for almost two years, has a new album coming out.

From the living: Euphoria Morning, the long-awaited solo debut from former Soundgarden singer CHRIS CORNELL, gives the grunge Adonis "the chance," he says, "to do what I never did before"—showcase his Beatles-inspired, singersongwriter rock and commanding voice.

Also this fall: She's still nasty, but LIL' KIM steps up her game and does a duet with Grace Jones and some R&B on her new album, the First from the platinum, hard-core rap star since the 1997 murder of her mentor and boyfriend, Notorious B.I.G. NINE INCH NAILS kingpin Trent Reznor tinkered in the studio for two years, and the result is a dark, complicated two-CD set, The Fragile. Entertainerentrepreneur SEAN "PUFFY" COMBS is determined to chart the future of all musical genres on Forever, which boasts fierce guitars and hip-hop visionary Chuck D on a rock mix of the single "PE 2000" and R. Kelly on the ballad "Satisfy You." Possibly still smarting from the tepid response to last year's Adore,SMASHING PUMPKINS' Billy Corgan went back to a win-

ning formula and rehired original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and producer Flood (who worked the controls on the smash Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) for his band's new album. DAVID BOWIE recorded more acoustic guitars and vocals, less technology, on Hours ... , which includes a song co-written by a cybersong-contest winner—21-year-old fan Alex Grant. Recent divorce and punk patriarch IGGY POP has recorded Avenue B, his most introspective, revealing album yet. The great romantic crooner BRYAN FERRY releases As Time Goes By, a collection of such standards as "Sweet and Lovely" and "Falling in Love Again." (In addition, a greatest-hits album from ROXY MUSIC gives Ferry fans more to drool over.)

Long overdue: FILTER front man Richard Patrick puts out Title of Record, the band's strong follow-up to 1995's Short Bus (which hit with the single "Hey Man Nice Shot"). Eight months after recording began, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE'S singer Zack de la Rocha was still finishing up the lyrics for the band's new album. Die-hard Clash fans will have to wait for that reunion; the band's singer JOE STRUMMER releases The X-Ray Style with his own group, MESCALEROS. TORI AMOS'S new record, To Venus and Back, is a two-CD set of highly anticipated live material from her recent band tour, as well as new studio songs. STING has guest stars Stevie Wonder and James Taylor on Brand New Day. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS lead singer Scott Weiland found time between stints in rehab to record a new CD with his bandmates. Having settled a lawsuit with its record label, BUSH is now free to release The Science of Things. And that eponymous, posthumous Michael Hutchence CD consists of songs he was working on before his 1997 suicide. Also cashing in with new albums are NO DOUBT, BARBRA STREISAND, PAULA COLE, MICHAEL BOLTON, EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, MEREDITH BROOKS, THE CHIEFTAINS. MELISSA ETHERIDGE, TRACY BONHAM, QUEENSRYCHE, MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, JESSICA SIMPSON, JANICE ROBINSON, NAS. FUNKADELIC, RUN-DMC, BEN HARPER, TONY BENNETT, WILL SMITH, COUNTING CROWS, LIVE. FOO FIGHTERS, MARIAH CAREY, JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, BECK, STEREOLAB, and THE CURE&emdash;probably the longest-running act in "alternative" rock with musicians who still talk to each other.

LISA ROBINSON