With "Fever In Fever Out," Luscious Jackson moved from the chunky beats of their previous work into a smooth groove without losing an ounce of urgency. The silky shuffle of "Naked Eye," [1.3MB QuickTime] the album's first single, earned the band a strong foothold on radio and on MTV, and the band is now following up with the equally infectious "Under Your Skin" [1.2MB QuickTime]

In addition to heavy duty radio play, the band is also popping up on television series, in commercials, and even in video games. Throughout its career though, Luscious Jackson has worn its New York City pedigree like a badge. The band even took to the streets of the city in the midst of the Yankees' World Series victory celebration to snap publicity shots.

When the band returned to New York during a stop on their tour with Live, MTV News caught up with frontwoman Jill Cunniff and drummer Kate Schellenbach to discuss their various projects, their increased visibility, and their feelings about the city they love in the wake of one recent ugly concert mishap.

MTV: First of all, how did you guys wind up on (Nickelodeon's) "The Adventures of Pete and Pete"?

Kate: (turning to Jill Cunniff) I thought it had something to do with you. No? But didn't Scotty work at that show? Okay. Well, besides nepotism, which apparently had nothing to do with it, we got asked. Gabby was a love interest of Big Pete, and we all love little Pete too, so... I think it was the funnest, most satisfying, best thing we did that year, seriously.

MTV: And then you guys turned up in an "I Love New York" tourism commercial. How did that happen?

Jill: Once again, we were approached so... basically the people who set up TV shows and ads, as we know, go through all the people who might be celebrities or interested in it. You know, certain TV shows have asked us to do it, and unfortunately we haven't been able to do them. Some of the ones like "90210" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or whatever... "The Drew Carey Show," but that's something that I think Luscious Jackson needs to improve on, more TV. I think it's good for us to do TV. More people saw that "Pete and Pete" than any of our tours.

Kate: And plus it's breaking into a really nice children's market which is a good place to be.

MTV: Considering that you guys wear your New York influence on your collective sleeve, the "I Love New York" spot must have been an honor in a way.

Kate: I think so. I think we were like, "Wow! They want us to represent, like with the Knicks and Tony Randall." I don't know, it was just a strange cross-section of New Yorkers. We're like, "No one's gonna know who we are. They're gonna be like, 'Who are these girls?'" You know? But, I never saw it, did you ever see it?

Jill: We never caught it. A lot of people saw it though. Yeah.

Kate: But, you know, we love New York. I'm even wearing a New York shirt today.

MTV: Considering what happened at the K-ROCK show (at which a New York crowd pelted Bush, Foo Fighters, Blur and others with debris, and actually hit Jill during Luscious Jackson's set), do you still love New York?

Kate: Well, our own shows are always really great and the last show we played was the Hammerstein Ballroom. It was like the opening of that club, and before that (we played) Roxy and Irving Plaza. I mean, we've always had really good shows here. That felt like, I don't know where we were on that (K-ROCK) show... That's never happened to us before, and hopefully will never happen again.

MTV: Can you just shake something like that off, or does it stick with you the next time you step on stage?

Jill: Well, I actually had an injury from it. I got hit with a full bottle of water, and that's when we left the stage, and I was injured for like three weeks, with an internal bruise. Because it was thrown from 50 yards away, I'm guessing. I don't really know how far but there was enough power behind it to really give me a whack, so I actually was pretty traumatized and upset by it. I mean, I'm not sitting there worried about it every time I get onstage, at all, but I think those things have a lasting effect definitely.

Kate: It definitely is an anomaly but, when you play those kind of festivals there's always an element of mob mentality, and usually what they do is hand out tons of beach balloons which sort of curbs the appetite of throwing things and hitting things. In this case, all there was were frisbees, which is not a very smart thing to have at a show like that, and plastic bottles of water. Urine. Bottles of urine, well there you go. But I don't think that represents New York per se. I think it's a weird... it's a K-ROCK thing. It's all Bush's fault (laughing).

MTV: The ironic thing is that different members of Bush were nailed by things thrown from the audience at two different shows earlier this summer, but they escaped the K-ROCK show unscathed.

Kate: Is that right? Well, we had a long talk with Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters after that show about all the stuff that got thrown at Nirvana, and how, like people... I don't know, it's really insane. They think it's like a... I don't know, it's a weird thing. But previously, I think we've gotten Birkenstocks thrown onstage and fun things like that, like sweaty tee shirts and, I don't know, love letters. Photos, model photos, modeling photos.