New Jersey's Swampadelica got their first big break when the music coordinator for MTV's The Real World heard a sample of their song "Hoo Doo" on Billboard magazine's Talent Net website. The very next day he called bandleader, co-founder, and keyboardist Damian Calcagne and licensed the song for the opening episode of the show set in New Orleans. The group's music on their eponymous, debut CD in 2000 ran the gamut from New Orleans funk and soulful organ riffs to campy pop vocal harmonizing, Jethro Tull and the Grateful Dead. Ironically, the band had broken up momentarily in 19...