Hipsters United Blog: Tinted Windows crack open plans for new album
11:25 am // Saturday, October 1, 2011
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Tinted Windows—the supergroup featuring Taylor Hanson backed by former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick—all but disappeared from the music scene after a concert in Tokyo eighteen months ago. Will that go down as the band’s final act?
The current calendar year has scattered the Tintslike dust on the wind: Iha has toured with A Perfect Circle, Schlesinger with the Fountains, Carlos with northern Illinois supergroup Candy Golde, and, uhm, Taylor with Hanson. On the web, TintedWindowsMusic.com now redirects to myspace.com/TintedWindows, and the band hasn’t tweeted since that January 2010 tour wrapped. :tumbleweed:
Yet it seems the band members have left the door open for more collaboration. Late last year Schlesinger said he “had some more songs” for the group. And back in March, Carlos suggested that the band might rendezvous again this fall. Now, Hanson, doing the press rounds for his namesake band’s fall tour, has told the San Francisco Examiner that he and Schlesinger have begun preliminary work on a second Tinted Windows album, saying “there’s definitely some brewing tuneage.” However, both Hanson and Fountains of Wayne are on tour through November.
Taylor & Adam are working on songs for new TW album. Credit: dfs915
Hanson brothers just getting warmed up
By: Tom Lanham | 09/06/11 4:00 AM
He (Taylor) and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger also have started preliminary work on the sophomore set from their power-pop supergroup Tinted Windows.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/music/2011/09/hanson-brothers-just-getting-warmed#ixzz1XGGeIsG3
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Radio has played Tinted Windows over 100x in the first half of 2011
1) WCLH Alternative rock, college radio Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton, PA http://www.wclh.org/ (# of plays: 38)
2) WSTB (89.9 FM) Modern Rock Streetsboro, Ohio - The AlterNation http://www.rock889.org/ (# of plays: 40)
3) KSCL 91.3 FM College Radio Shreveport, Louisiana http://www.centenary.edu/life/kscl/ (# of plays: 15)
4) WTTS World Class Rock Adult Album Alternative Indianapolis/Bloomington http://wttsfm.com/(# of plays: 1)
5) 93.3 KZOZ Everything That Rocks, Mainstream rock http://www.kzoz.com/ (# of plays: 2)
6) KSCU Santa Clara University The Underground Sound San Jose, California http://twitter.com/KSCU http://www.kscu.org/ (# of plays: 2)
7) KALX University of CALifornia, College radio San Francisco Bay Area http://kalx.berkeley.edu/ (# of plays: 2)
8.) KDHX St. Louis, Missouri, Variety KDHX is an award winning, independent, non-commercial, listener-supported community radio station http://kdhx.org/ (# of plays: 2)
9) WLLO Leo 103 Southern Manchester area, High School Radio http://www.londonderry.org/leo103/ (# of plays: 2)
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Supergroup Candy Golde mines rich vein of experience.
When bandleader Nicholas Tremulis went prospecting for treasure in the rich musical mines of Chicago, he struck Candy Golde.
This mother lode of talent includes Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Wilco bassist John Stirratt, keyboardist Mark Greenberg and singer-guitarist Rick Rizzo, both of Eleventh Dream Day, and singer-guitarist Tremulis of the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra.
An all-star outfit such as this is too commonly called a “supergroup,” but the precious handful of tunes on Candy Golde's self-titled mini-album justifies that overused label.
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