Monthly Archives: February 2009

Article: One Pumpkin, One Fountain, One Trick And A Hanson Add Up To Tinted Windows

By | February 18, 2009

Published by James Montgomery on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 6:44 pm. Take one graying former Smashing Pumpkins ax-man, a Hanson brother-turned-father, a 57-year-old Cheap Trick drummer and the Fountains of Wayne bassist, and what have you got? Tinted Windows, the music world’s latest, relatively head-scratching supergroup. That’s right — James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Bun… Read More »

Official Word from Taylor…

By | February 18, 2009

First off, we hoped to be the first to officially tell you guys about it on hnet, but there was a mixup…anyways. Over the last couple years, Adam Schlesinger from fountains of Wayne and James Iha have been working on this project – We first met Adam years ago when we were making Middle Of… Read More »

Article:Tinted Windows: a ‘supergroup’… featuring Hanson

By | February 18, 2009

Does Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha know MMMBop? Tom Porter, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 11:25 am UTC 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 lineup… Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James… Read More »

More on “Tinted Windows”

By | February 18, 2009

Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson and Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger have formed a new band, Tinted Windows. The group has recorded its debut album at Stratosphere Sound Studios in New York, which Schlesinger and Iha co-own with Ivy’s Andy Chase. The set is… Read More »

Tinted Windows

By | February 17, 2009

That’s James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) on guitar, Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne) on bass, Mr. Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) on drums, and Taylor Hanson (um, Hanson) on vocals. They’re called Tinted Windows and the album will be out sometime this spring. Sounds power pop-tastic, doesn’t it? Source Another article The Born to Rock and… Read More »

Article: Q&A ON THE NEWS

By | February 17, 2009

Q: What happened to the Hanson brothers? Where are they are now? FRANCES TATE, Stone Mountain A: Hanson, the pop rock band from Tulsa, Okla., includes brothers Isaac, Taylor and Zac. They continue to make music, appearing last October at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse as part of their “Walk Around the World Tour.” Before their performances,… Read More »

Hilarious new FUTY

By | February 15, 2009

Apparently, a couple of tours ago a fan requested to Zac that he write a song called “All that love Crap” and well, Zac did as he was asked and yesterday posted a video of him and his brothers singing this song for Valentine’s Day. Usually FUTY videos are a Members Only perk – HOWEVER!… Read More »

Past Local Opener!

By | February 15, 2009

Honor Society opened for Hanson as one of the local openers on the Live and Electric Tour in NYC in 2005. Since then, they’ve switched drummers and have been working on smoothing their sound. Recently, the guys have been on the west coast opening up for the Jonas Brothers and working on their first full… Read More »