On Wednesday, May 12, legendary rocker Alice Cooper will hostRhino Records' presentation of the Third Annual Rhino Musical Aptitude Test(RMAT), an SAT-style music test to find the ultimate music trivia expert.

Cosponsored by Pioneer Stereo, Tower Records, Vibe magazine/Spinmagazine/Blaze magazine, and Yahoo! Music, this year's RMAT will take placein Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Dallas, at 7 p.m. local time in eachlocation, and live over the Internet via Yahoo! Music at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT. Complete detailsregarding the 1999 RMAT can be obtained by logging onto orby contacting the RMAT hotline at 1-888-846-3848.

The RMAT, an open-book trivia test covering all genres of music, exceptclassical, features 305 multiple-choice questions (cleverly written,incidentally, by the 1998 RMAT Los Angeles local winner Andy Zax). On testday, each live location will be fully decorated to replicate a classroomsetting, complete with school desks, a teacher's desk, and a chalkboard.The exams will be tightly guarded until test day, when they will bedelivered to each location by an armored truck.

A winner will be chosen from each of the four live locations, as well asone from the Internet. Each winner will receive a Pioneer home-theatersystem and DVD player; a $100 Tower Records gift certificate; one-yearsubscriptions to Vibe, Spin, and Blaze magazines; and a Yahoo! paddedlaptop courier bag and fleece jacket. In addition to the above, one grandprize winner will receive one copy of everything released from the Rhinolabel for his or her lifetime-or Rhino's lifetime, whichever ends first.(This is of course non-transferable).

"I'm very proud of the fact that we've taken an event that was originallyconceived as a one-time PR stunt, and have built it into a major annualbranding promotion, now in its third year" says Rhino's Senior Director ofMedia Relations, and RMAT creator, David Dorn. "We've made the testquestions a lot more contemporary and have added even more humor. Even ifsomeone isn't the world's most informed music trivia expert, they're goingto have a lot of fun competing."

For more information, please call Rhino Media Relations at (310) 474-4778,or visit the Rhino Media Relations Web site at www.rhino.com/media.