San Jose’s Smash Mouth celebrate 30 years of music

Hamza Fahmy
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(KRON) – Marking their 30th anniversary since forming in San Jose back in 1994, multi-platinum-selling and Grammy-nominated global phenomenon Smash Mouth has returned with a new single and the announcement of a tour on Friday.

Smash Mouth has been a force on the international rock ‘n’ roll scene for three decades. They are known for their late ‘90s chart-topping hits, “Walkin’ on the Sun” and “All-Star.” The latter was a staple of the first Shrek film soundtrack, which recently surpassed one billion streams on Spotify alone.

Cody Dyce, 12, of Huffman, dons a KLOL logo and pointed ears as he watches Smashmouth during the KLOL Fall Jamm 5 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Saturday, Oct. 2, 1999, in The Woodlands, Texas. i(Photo by Brett Coomer/Special to The Chronicle) KLOL’s FALL JAMM V (Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle)
Cody Dyce, 12, of Huffman, dons a KLOL logo and pointed ears as he watches Smashmouth during the KLOL Fall Jamm 5 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Saturday, Oct. 2, 1999, in The Woodlands, Texas. i(Photo by Brett Coomer/Special to The Chronicle) KLOL’s FALL JAMM V (Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle)

The band’s popularity has endured over the years, with a YouTube channel boasting more than a million subscribers. Between 1997 and 2002, the band notched six Top 20 hits from their debut ska-punk-influenced Interscope album, Fush Yu Mang, which went double-platinum thanks to “Walkin’ on the Sun” and other singles.

The band’s second album, the triple-platinum Astro Lounge, released in 1999, produced the hit single “All-Star,” whose inclusion on the Shrek soundtrack (along with their cover of the Monkees’/Neil Diamond’s “I’m a Believer”) has led the band to DJ at numerous “Shrek Raves” over the years, along with “Then the Morning Comes.”

Other career highlights include appearing as themselves in the climactic scene of the film Rat Race and having the hit “Can’t Get Enough of You Baby” featured in the movie Can’t Hardly Wait.

Last year, the band released a Christmas album, marking their first music release in the past ten years. In September 2023, the band’s frontman, Steve Harwell, passed away in a battle with acute liver failure.

The single will be released on April 12, with the band’s summer tour starting April 19-20 at Island Resort & Casino in Harris, Michigan. Ironically enough, the only California destination the band will be visiting during their tour is San Diego on August 17.

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