Entertainment Weekly - February 19 1993

Relaxing

Add 10,000 Maniacs to the FOB (Friends of Bill) list. Their latest album, Our Time in Eden, surged to No. 28 on the Billboard pop charts after the band's appearance with Michael Stipe on MTV's inaugural ball. Maniacs songs are even showing up on the new teen-angst Fox series Class of '96. Lead singer Natalie Merchant says the band doesn't care about its rebound (Eden had floundered after being released last fall) and won't go on tour until May. "Am I sounding like the high-powered '90s businesswoman or what?" she asks....