How’s this for terrifying: you’re at an outdoor music festival, and the band you’re watching is Cheap Trick.
Ok, just kidding, that’s not the horrific part. Ok, it’s not the really horrific part—now imagine that the entire gargantuan stage setup collapsing on top of the band and fans, mid-performance.
For some reason, Audi’s Super Bowl ad has become one of the most controversial topics in regards to the message they were sending out. Unlike the Vizio VIA TV commercial, Audi’s highlight on making a Green lifestyle “feel right” came across loud and clear as the “Green Police” were arresting people left and right for using plastic bottles and grocery bags, not composting orange rinds and using foam cups.
However, what we at BeatCrave find most interesting is that the ad not only featured Cheap Trick‘s classic, “Dream Police,” but that the band themselves had re-recorded a version just for the ad turning it into an environmental anthem.
So as many of you know, a new supergroup called Tinted Windows (James Iha, Adam Schlesinger, Bun E. Carlos, and Taylor Hanson) has formed! Some of you have expressed your feelings that have ranged from disbelief to hesitance to incredible excitement! (Hanson fans.) Well whatever your opinion is at the moment, perhaps a little glimpse into some performances will sway your thoughts. (Hmmm bop.)
Our friends at Stereogum have caught a sneak peak at Tinted Windows songs such as “Kind of Girl” and “Messin’ With My Head.” For some reason the group has chosen an awkward Godwin Alexander to introduce this mini-appearance below, but come March 20th and you’ve got a real performance as part of the Billboard Showcase in SXSW!
Watch the (very short) clips below and let us know what you think. Do the tunes sound mmmbopablicious? Are they hotter than Stacey’s mom?
So, we love it when great musicians collaborate on songs. We love it even more when they form another recording group with each other. However, we’ve come across a new one and we don’t don’t really know what to say about it… Apparently, the newest pop supergroup out there right now is Tinted Windows. Who is in Tinted Windows? Well… there’s James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins (guitar), Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne (bass), Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick (drums), and Taylor Hanson from… er… Hanson (vox). Their album will be coming out in the spring.
Let’s take a moment of silence for future fans of Tinted Windows. These people will probably be going through some mental illness right before they realize how foolish their music taste was… and that will be the last straw for them…
Bun E. Carlos? Taylor Hanson?
What are you thinking? I don’t want to be alone with these thoughts.
