Meanwhile in Music: Smash Mouth Singer Calls It Quits After Successfully Infecting Us With Enough Songs to Haunt a Lifetime

As far as hit-bands-from-the-’90s-you-wish-you-didn’t-know-about goes, no one takes the cake like Creed. But a very close second would have to be Smash Mouth (sorry, Sugar Ray), the San Jose ska-pop outfit whose string of hits culminated in 1999’s “All-Star.” Despite peaking in popularity 20 years ago, the band has carried on playing shows at local beer and wine festivals and…