SETB set to release this spring As we mentioned last week, Strong Enough To Break will be released this spring. The package will include 15 demos recorded during the making of Underneath. These demos include never before released songs, as well as original versions that made the Underneath album. Extra content on the DVD will… Read More »
A few days ago we posted this exclusive track, “Kind of a Girl”, the first single from the generation-spanning supergroup Tinted Windows, featuring Taylor Hanson, Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, James Iha and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos. The response has been overwhelming. Hundreds and hundreds of positive comments have piled up, most of… Read More »
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Lawyers have reached a tentative settlement in a music piracy lawsuit filed by the recording industry against the children of one of its best-known opponents, the family’s lawyer said Friday. If the settlement is finalized, it would end a long battle between the industry and the family of Patti Santangelo, who… Read More »
Disclosures up front: I proposed to my future ex-wife at a Cheap Trick show, so I guess you could call me a fan. I think that Bun E. Carlos is a great drummer, undersung because he’s not flashy in a band with a lot of flash. This is particularly true given that the band came… Read More »
Dow 7100. The last time the Dow Jones Industrial Average looked the way it did today, many other things looked very much different. The time was May 1997 — May 7, to be exact, when the Dow closed at 7085.65. Music fans were rocking out to boy band Hanson and their hit, “MMMBop,” which was… Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tinted Windows to Release Debut Album April 21St New Band Features Taylor Hanson, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger, and Bun E. Carlos The debut album by Tinted Windows will be released April 21st on S-Curve Records. Tinted Windows are: Taylor Hanson (lead vocals), James Iha (guitar), Adam Schlesinger (bass), and Bun E. Carlos… Read More »
What song makes this writer say: But this doesn’t even matter. I think this song is the best new pop song to hit the airwaves since Hanson’s “mmmBop.” Find out under the cut… Source
Strong Enough to Break Set to Release! SETB is set to be released exclusively on Hanson.net this spring. The DVD will include 15 demos recorded during the period of Underneath. More details to come soon. From the This Week @ Hanson.net newsletter
Fans of great power pop can rejoice. A number of top purveyors of the genre are coming together to form a pop “super group” of sorts and Hitfix has exclusive details about recording plans. Tinted Windows is Hanson vocalist Taylor Hanson, Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, former Smashing Pumpkins’ guitarist James Iha and Cheap… Read More »
When I heard that Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha, Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick, Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne, and TAYLOR EFFING HANSON were forming a band, I had to check the date on my calendar. Alas, April Fool’s Day is a good month and a half away. So I guess this is either… Read More »