Tinted Windows -- Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Hanson's keyboardist Taylor Hanson, Fountain of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos -- released their debut eponymous album a couple weeks back. Opening on the Billboard 200 at Number 59 the thing screams pop music, the type of music you'd find in a tween flick. Here's the second track from the album, ...
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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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I first heard this during their SXSW set and it's the song that stuck with me the most. Although the concert was kind of ragged, I could tell this would be good on the studio release.Now that the CD is out and I've listened to the polished version, I can't get the catchy chorus out of my head! It's bugging me. So, I had to post it, so it's stuck in your head too . And, now I don't have to keep ...
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Tinted Windows is Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick, James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins, Taylor Hanson from Hanson and finally Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne. What? I wonder how the ever found their way to each other. Two members are from prominent power pop groups one from a teen sensation and one from Smashing Pumpkins. Interesting combo, to say the least. let's see how they do.Debut CD ...
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A new band called Tinted Windows is reportedly putting out an album this spring. Not news, right? What if we told you that the band features former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger on bass, Cheap Trick's... There's more on this story at the following link...
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Members of Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Hanson form a Power Pop Supergroup only to craft an early contender for the Worst Album of 2009.
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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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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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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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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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What do you get when you take members of Cheap Trick, the Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne, and Hanson and blend them into a slushie of bold, fuzzy love songs?Super group Tinted Windows may sound weird on paper, but their self-titled debut record sounds pretty damn good through a decent set of headphones.Let's do the math:Singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, a band famous for catchy, arena-fill...
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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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There's a lot of Whoas to be had in this one. As discussed last week, we were preparing to wait patiently for the arrival of some music from Tinted Windows. Taylor Hanson, Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), and Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) formed what many have already criticized to be [...]
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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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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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