Um, wow. So this IS really happening. Last week we fell privvy to what we could call the weirdest supergroup to ever hit the stage - Tinted Windows. Forging together former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Hanson's keyboardist Taylor Hanson, Fountain of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Tinted Windows is indeed as real as the first promo shot above. Mo...
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Tinted Windows has just announced a handful of shows coming up later this month and early May for US fans. The band's debut album hits stores on April 21, and fans will get a triple shot of TW, as the band will play Letterman on April 21 and Fallon on April 23.Comprised of Taylor Hanson (Hanson), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, Ivy) and Bun...
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In an alternate universe, there are probably several thousand music fanatics who playing "Where are they now" with Taylor Hanson (Hansen), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, Ivy) and Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick).In this universe, we now know. The (strange?) group will forever be known as Tinted Windows and will release its debut album on April ...
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WENN reports that James Iha, formerly of The Smashing Pumpkins, Taylor Hanson of… Hanson, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos, and Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger have formed a band called Tinted Windows that has already recorded a debut album. The band will make its debut at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin [...]
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MUSIC NEWS - Clear Channel Radio today unveils NYC’s newest performance space: the P.C. Richard & Son Theater. A 5,500 square-foot, street-level performance space will serve as the live performance home for Clear Channel Radio’s New York-based radio stations – Z100, Q104.3, 106.7 Lite-fm, Power 105.1 and WKTU and their east-coast home for iheartradio original productions, including
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Much like Communism, credit cards, and Calvin Coolidge, supergroups have always sounded great in theory but in practice leave much to be desired. Bringing musicians from big bands together may appear to be a stroke of genius, but it too often descends into money-grabbing conventionalism. Nevertheless, despite their existence as mammoth cash-cows, supergroups have always oozed "coolness," whethe...
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Tinted Windows is a new pop-rock supergroup that spans musical generations, comprised of Taylor Hanson (yes, THAT Hanson), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), and Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick). An odd collection of artistic personalities to be sure, but one that's gotten more than a few people very excited. Their live unveiling at SXSW must have...
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MUSIC NEWS - Quite the interesting line-up for the new, TINTED WINDOWS group. The band has former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Ben E Carlos, Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger and a Hanson brother, Taylor Hanson.A spokesperson has said the new band already completed two music videos and will to tour with guitarist Josh Lattanzi (The Lemonheads, Albert H...
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MUSIC NEWS - Tinted Windows, the new band made up of Taylor Hanson, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger, and Bun E. Carlos, will celebrate the April 21st release of their anticipated debut album with a round of appearances, some late night television appearances, intimate club dates and gigs with No Doubt in Atlantic City, NJ and at the Bamboozle Festival.The group will perform on The Late Show
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Jim DeRogatis talks to former Smashing Pumpkin James Iha about Tinted Windows, his new band that features members of Hanson, Cheap Trick, and Fountains of Wayne: Well, Adam [Schlesinger] and I are friends, and we have these various businesses together:...
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OK, when we first heard that there was a band where former-Pumpkin James Iha rails on the guitar, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick hits the drums, and there's a Hanson singing, we kind of laughed. After much fact checking, our minds were blown. Didn't nostradamos warn us about this kind of thing? Oh, and [...]
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