I Like American Music Pt 40 of 50 - ABCs of American Music pt J of Z

Jawbreaker - Boxcar

J Mascis - Leavin' on a Jet Plane

Jonathan Fire*eater - Everybody Plays the Mime

I Like American Music Pt. 21 of 50 - Windows, Blinds and Curtains

Smashing Pumpkins - Window Paine

  Veruca Salt with Pure Power Pop Goodness and a nod to the Pixies at the 1:50 mark.

Veruca Salt - Number One Blind

Jonathan Fire*eater - When The Curtain Calls For You

Great as the sum of its parts

  Take the drummer, keyboardist/bassist and guitarist out of band one

Jonathan Fire*eater - When the Curtain Calls For You

  Add the vocalist and keyboard/bassist of band two. 

The Recoys - Song of the Paper Dolls

  And here's what you get......as described by YouTube commenter Marty Nozz- Five guys dressed like they're on their way to Sunday dinner at Mom's, melt the faces off of the audience at the Conan O'Brien show and the drummer wore long sleeves just to rub it in.

   The connection between the first two bands is that Jonathan Fire*eater's keyboard/bassist Walter Martin is the cousin of The Recoys vocalist Hamilton Leithauser.

  In the lyrics of the first song there is an indirect reference to a celestial event that occurred in 1997.  Any guesses?