The Smithereens are bringing their hits, their history, and a new singer to Park City's Historic Main Street starting Thursday, Aug. 6.

The 1980s-90s rock band known for "Blood and Roses," "Only a Memory," and "A Girl Like You" will play three nights at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., on Thursday, Aug. 6, through Saturday, Aug. 8. John Cowsill of the Cowsills will handle lead vocals for the Park City run.

Guitarist and co-founder Jim Babjak confirmed the lineup in an interview with the Park Record published Friday, July 31.

Cowsill is one of several rotating frontmen who have kept The Smithereens on the road since original singer and guitarist Pat DiNizio died in 2017. Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms, Marshall Crenshaw, and Wesley Stace also take turns at the mic, each bringing different deep cuts to the set list. Cowsill has his own connection to the catalog: he sang on the original 1990 recording of "Now and Then" and spent 25 years as the drummer for The Beach Boys.

The rotating-singer format grew out of grief. After DiNizio's death, "Little Steven" Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band suggested a tribute concert at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, benefiting the Pat DiNizio Music Scholarship fund. That show ran nearly four hours. Wilson and Crenshaw volunteered to keep going.

"So, we decided to carry on, and that was good for me because I didn't want to be at home watching TCM and eating Cheez Doodles," Babjak said.

Beyond the live shows, Babjak revealed that DiNizio left roughly 15 acoustic demos in the band's vault. Babjak has already added bass and drums to the tracks with bassist Mike Mesaros and drummer Dennis Diken, and is working to release them as a "lost" Smithereens album.

The three-night stand fits a pattern at the Egyptian Theatre, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary on Main Street in 2026. The venue has been booking multi-night residencies for legacy acts this summer, including a four-night run by Little Feat's Fred Tackett and Scott Sharrard that wrapped up Monday, Aug. 3.

The Smithereens residency also overlaps with the Kimball Arts Festival, which runs Friday, Aug. 7, through Sunday, Aug. 9, drawing additional foot traffic to Main Street that weekend.

Babjak and Diken co-founded the band as teenagers and have played together since age 14. During the grunge era, The Smithereens dropped to just 15 shows a year, and Babjak took a 20-year day job at a corporate Japanese bank in New York, changing clothes in his car after red-eye flights to make it to his desk on Monday mornings. The Smithereens were inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2019.

Tickets are available at parkcityshows.com and thesmithereens.com. The Egyptian Theatre box office can be reached at 855-745-7469. The venue has warned buyers to purchase only through official channels due to increasing problems with third-party reseller scams.