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Them Crooked Vultures Open for Arctic Monkeys, But What's Next?

Being in a supergroup is tricky business. You've got every member's fame in its own right, the press angling for a scoop on just why said band formed and cynical fans guessing that it might all just be for, you know, the Benjamins. But such doesn't seem the case for Them Crooked Vultures, the new supergroup—ahem, rock band—featuring Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl. ...  read more

She & Him, Black Keys, Aimee Mann, Fall Out Boy, More to Judge Independent Music Awards

We all know that submitting work for review can be nerve-wracking. But when the people judging the work are some of the best in the field, well, that's a whole different story. Such is the case at the Independent Music Awards, a contest for songwriter hopefuls....  read more

Tinted Windows drop album, do the late-night thing, tour

If the last two months have proven anything—and yes, it really has been that long since the announcement that James Iha, Taylor Hanson, Adam Schlesinger and Bun E. Carlos were all in a band, together—it's that Tinted Windows is less a supergroup than a stuporgroup. General response to the outfit's very existence has been little less than gobsmacked, with next week's impending release of the band's eponymous debut LP looming like a day of judgment upon which the burning question will finally be answered: Will the album be pure power-pop awesomeness, or the purest power-pop awesomeness ever? ...  read more

Fourteen Hanson Songs for Tinted Windows Converts

Earlier this month, when it was announced that Tinted Windows—an ostensibly-super-group featuring Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, The Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos and Taylor Hanson (for whom my inner twelve-year old still carries a brooding, awkward torch)—didn't just exist but indeed had songs and a MySpace and SXSW dates (you know, all the things that real bands have) I thought it must be a joke. When I watched the promotional video I became reasonably sure that it wasn't a joke, but even more desperate to be wrong: The songs were tinny and vapid and somehow...  read more

Hanson + Cheap Trick + Smashing Pumpkins + Fountains of Wayne = Tinted Windows

In one of the strangest bits of supergroup news in, well, a good while, former Smashing Pumpkins member James Iha, a grown-up Taylor Hanson, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos and Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger are set to release their debut album on April 21 as new band called Tinted Windows. ...  read more