"it has been a quiet quarantine for Smooch," says Benny Profane, the group's mysterious new manager, who looks like an old dish rag, and smells the same, "and yet, these boys were making noise the whole time."

At this point, in our discussion, Profane reaches into the pocket of his suspiciously pristine Letterman's jacket - (Mr. Profane would neither confirm nor deny reports that he stole it)... ... more