“I don’t think we’re going to threaten the Jonas Brothers,” says James Iha of Tinted Windows‘ self-titled debut, recently released on S-Curve Records. But the power pop generated by the multigenerational band—which also includes Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne), Taylor Hanson (Hanson) and Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick)—is a teenage dream of catchy choruses and withering walls of guitars befitting the former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist. Iha is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all this week; read our Q&A with him to get a glimpse into the formation of Tinted Windows.
Iha: I like all the Southern-gothic writers, but my favorite is Truman Capote. The first book I read by him was (1980 anthology) Music For Chameleons, and I was initially struck by the precise language, the exotic imagery and the way he used seemingly normal characters who had hidden, sometimes grotesque flaws. (1966’s) In Cold Blood, his groundbreaking “non-fiction novel,” presents it all but doesn’t overtly moralize or become too literal. Watch a YouTube video of Capote discussing In Cold Blood after the jump.
