It's been an unusually good year for Third Eye Blind, the once prosperous alternative-rock band that's spent the last decade descending further and further off the radar. A new generation of acoustic guitar strumming frat boys has revived their sentimental but snarky old hits, and Jim Carrey's rendition of "Jumper" has re-endeared the song to radio. Most improbably, though, Third Eye Blind have a new single that's also getting real radio play: "Non-Dairy Creamer," a slinky, silly,  little throwback to their early hits that critiques the Iraq war in the most jumbled way possible. As with most of their hits, it's aggressivel obnoxious, but it works its way into your head quickly.

A huge crowd lined up for Third Eye Blind's SXSW performance yesterday at Austin's Convention Center, and singer Stephen Jenkins (looking 1o years old than you remember him looking, since it's been about 10 years since you've last seen him) was genuinely appreciative of that. The band's performance mingled old material with new material from their upcoming record, including "Non-Dairy Creamer," which the crowd was already well familiar with, and a sardonic track Jenkins wrote about being rejected in favor of a massaging shower head. As always, the band's sense of humor is a mixed bag, but their enthusiasm was hard to argue with. For an act with such strong adult-contemporary appeal, they sure do shout a lot.