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Hanson Smashes Cheap Fountains To Create Tinted Windows
If you put a bunch of Hanson fans and Smashing Pumpkins fans in a room – would they have anything to talk about? All-grownup teenyboppers hanging with the grandpa hipsters? What about adding Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick fans into the mix? Now that would be just too random, right?
Get ready to find out. Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos hope fans don’t think the combination is too out there (unless you like that sort of thing) because Tinted Windows, signed to S-Curve Records, is the newest rock supergroup in town.
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The Avalon, Los Angeles.
On the books for the band are two festival appearances:
SXSW links to the band’s supposed Web site – www.tintedwindows.com. If you click on the link, you’re taken to site with tabs for window tinting and auto accessories. Not sure if the band is eventually going to buy the URL or if this is some kind of joke to add to the weirdness of the lineup.
Meanwhile, the band’s supposed MySpace site – has a notice that proclaims “coming soon” but it already counts 1,541 members as friends!
However, after further research, we can tell you the band’s official, currently-in-biz site is www.tintedwindowsmusic.com.
Oh, and one more thing. Tinted Windows’ debut album is headed for an April 21 release.
“We’re thrilled to be involved with Tinted Windows. The S-Curve team has been involved with the careers of most of the members of this extremely super group, and we’re honored that we’ll get to help bring their collective effort to the world,” S-Curve founder Steve Greenberg said, according to HitFix.com. “They’ve made an amazing record together and I think the music audience will be blown away when they hear it.”
After first proclaiming “WTF” to the lineup, Pitchfork pointed out that “The union sort of makes sense considering Iha and Schlesinger co-own a studio and Taylor Hanson seems like an all-around good guy … but still.”
The Pitchfork article can be read here.
Read the HitFix item here.