Fountains Of Wayne’s new album, Sky Full Of Holes, will be released in the US on August 2 by Yep Roc Records, and by Warner Music in Japan (other international release dates coming soon). Recorded in ...

In music, as in food, contradictory flavors can add depth and dimension. The sugar high of a pop melody can be made richer and more refreshing with sour lyrical content, creating a tangy musical ...

In 1996, two albums came out a couple of weeks apart, and both of them used the exact same photo as their cover art. Both Fountains Of Wayne’s self-titled debut and the Flamingoes’ Plastic Jewels had ...

Fountains of Wayne’s latest album, “Sky Full of Holes,” might have come out sooner, if the band hadn’t been fighting so much during the recording process. Released in July of 2011, the album follows ...

In 1999, I spoke with Schlesinger and his partner in the band Fountains of Wayne, Chris Collingwood. We started with the title track of the album they just released, "Utopia Parkway." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Fountains of Wayne's massively hooky power-pop songs have made it a critical darling, landed the group in the Top 40 (for 2003's ubiquitous "Stacy's Mom"), and even spawned one of the most spot-on ...

Emmy- and Grammy-winning artist known for the hit "Stacy's Mom" and composing music for "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and Tom Hanks's "That Thing You Do!" had been hospitalized for more than one week after ...

There's a Hackensack deadbeat pining for a high school crush who since has gone on to become a movie star. There's also the anguished ex-boyfriend stuck in traffic on the Tappan Zee Bridge. And who ...

Fountains of Wayne will be performing concert dates this year for the first time since 2013, and the shows are proceeding with the blessings of the family of the band’s co-founder, the late Adam ...

This week wraps up Chesney Hawkes‘ “Chesney’s in the Kitchen” residency on Toyah and King Crimson leader Robert Fripp‘s “Sunday Lunch” series, and they perform Fountains of Wayne’s 2003 hit “Stacy’s ...