Tinted Windows: a 'supergroup'… featuring Hanson

Does Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha know MMMBop?

Tom Porter, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 11:25 am UTC

Hanson

The term 'supergroup' is often thrown around rather loosely, to say the least. Tinted Windows is the latest band to attract the moniker, and it probably does deserve it. Regardless of its eyebrow-raising linup…

Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Ben E Carlos, Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger and the medium-sized one from Hanson, Taylor Hanson. Yes, Hanson.

It's easy to dismiss the 90's version of the Jonas Brothers as blonde one hit (hello, MMMBop) wonders. But, actually… Ok, let's just go back to Tinted Windows, shall we?

It's likely that Iha and Schlesinger got the band together because they co-own Scratchie Records and New York's Stratosphere Sound Studios. Where, probably not coincidentally, the quartet recorded their debut album, which they'll showcase at SXSW Festival and release in April.

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Hyacinth

50 weeks ago.

But actually.... Hanson had four hits in the Billboard Top 20. Four is more than one, or at least it was back when I went to school, so they're obviously not "one hit wonders".
And if you want to hear what Taylor's vocals sound like now (or, at least what they sounded like in 2006), do a search for the song "Great Divide" by Hanson. It's amazing, and it was the #1 requested song on some alternative station in Chicago, before the station revealed who the artist was.

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