Wuhrer, who just released her first disc, Shiny, on Del-Fi Records, tells Dish she started singing with bands as a 14-year-old in Connecticut. "I used to have to sneak out of the house and play gigs in [New York] at night, and then get dropped off at school the next day," says the former frontwoman of Freudian Slip and Bozo's Barnyard. "My parents were none the wiser."

Shiny will probably do well with Sliders fans, many of whom revere Wuhrer's sexy Capt. Maggie Beckett. "You know what I got for Valentine's Day?" she says. "Somebody sent me this big, beautiful teddy bear and in a pouch was a diamond tennis bracelet. The sci-fi fans are insane!"

In addition to Sliders, which kicks off its fifth season on Fri., March 19 (9 pm/ET), Wuhrer is starring in Kate's Addiction, an indie film that screens later this month at the Newport Beach International Film Festival in California. "I play this lesbian who is in love with her college roommate and kind of goes psycho and kills people," she says. "I'll try anything once."