Fountains of Wayne News

Mom-lovers and other rock fans packed Tarrytown Music Hall to catch Fountains of Wayne.

You might not know Adam Schlesinger by name. You might not even be familiar with his band, Fountains of Wayne .

There's something tragically hopeful about 'Strapped for Cash,' a song by the band Fountains of Wayne.

After a successful gig earlier this year at Mercury Lounge, the band returns to New York tonight for a proper show at Highline Ballroom.

FORGET EVERYTHING YOU know about Sebastien Grainger if you know of him only from the dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 .

The New York City-based power pop band Fountains of Wayne is anchored by the singer/songwriter duo of Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood, who first teamed together in 1986 while studying at Massachusetts' Williams College.

Sound Engineer Mike Fanuele also used Sennheiser mics on Bun E. Carlos' drums, including an e 902 on bass and e 904s on toms and bottom snare Four top names from famous 90s bands team up to create "Tinted Windows" - a new super-group where all members are using Sennheiser evolution e 935 wired microphones.

The DylanFest with Teenage Dreams, Adam Green and Fountains of Wayne is tonight at Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St.

Fab Moretti and Nikolai Fraiture of New York rock band The Strokes will reunite in The Big Apple on May 21st for a Bob Dylan Tribute Concert.

May 12, 2009 - Clear Channel Radio has opened the P.C. Richard and Son Theater performance space in New York City.

Every Sunday, I'll be posting an entry in my Albums of the Aughts series, highlighting 50 great or near-great albums released since Jan.

A heaping slice of the blusier material from Bob Dylan's new album, as well as a Robert Johnson cover he did 16 years ago.

It's the last big day of this year's South by Southwest conference/festival, and among the dozens of music industry folks congregating in the swanky Driskill hotel in downtown Austin, Texas, are members of a genuine supergroup.

These perennial monuments to rock 'n' roll excess have a tendency to blast off in a blaze of glory and good press and then come crashing back to Earth, whether as a result of band infighting , hopeless heroin addiction or mediocre '80s prog-synth-pop . It may be just as well, then, that the members of new supergroup Tinted Windows aren't so super ...

There's a long history of -- for lack of a better word -- "supergroups." These, of course, are bands comprised of musicians with already established pedigrees.

Mead eventually became a guitarist and backup vocalist with Nashville-based band Joe, Marc's Brother.

Fountains of Wayne, the North Jersey Neiman Marcus of concrete Cupids and precast Poseidons, was dismantled Saturday, one stone gnome at a time.

Fountains of Wayne, the band that brought you "Stacy's Mom," will play the Bearsville Theater July 5. Tickets are $25 and go on sale at 10 a.m. May 4. Call 679-4406 or visit www.bearsvilletheater.com These discussions and our forums are not moderated.

In the years since he walked offstage at Metro on Dec. 2, 2000, at the end of what was billed as the Smashing Pumpkins' final show, Chicago-born guitarist James Iha has guested with other bands, including A Perfect Circle and the Blank Theory; co-owned an independent label, Scratchie Records, with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, and ...

Taylor Hanson has a new gig! The middle brother of the rock trio Hanson just released an album with his new band, Tinted Windows, a power-pop group that also includes James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick.