Fountains of Wayne News

Bowling for Soup's newest studio release, "Sorry for Partyin'" is rollicking, snarky, spit-on-the sidewalk-and-watch-it-sizzle-in-the-summer-sun rock 'n' roll.

Join Charger fans at the biggest Gaslamp tailgate party of the year to celebrate 50 years of phenomenal football with live entertainment on two stages, interactive games, celebrity and player appearances and much more! The Chargers take it to the streets and turn up the heat with the hottest acts and DJs performing live on two stages.

The son of amateur musicians, Adam Schlesinger has been performing in one band or another since his high school days.

Still, ya gotta fill the void -- here are a few more ways that didna t make print.

All Chris Carrabbaa s albums as heartthrob-in-chief of Dashboard Confessional have been about tension, primarily romantic: He can't help comparing his current love to the idealized version in his pretty little head.

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Laura Ann Masura, a musician and bartender at Downtown's Redwood Bar and Grill, was injured in September when her motorcycle was hit by a car on the PCH.

One listen to Hanson's first hit, "MMMBop," and it would've been safe to assume that then-tweenage brothers Taylor , Isaac and Zac were going to be nothing more than a prepubescent pimple on the chin of pop culture -- persistent, annoying, but gone in the morning.

Dennis Diken has always lived in New Jersey. It's where he met Pat DiNizio and Jim Babjak, with whom he created the Smithereens.

The songs of Mark Mulcahy, former leader of the New Haven band Miracle Legion, are being released today on "Ciao My Shining Star." His songs are performed by such artists as R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the Pixies' Frank Black and Fountains of Wayne's Chris Collingwood.

Power pop accessorized with empathy, brains and hooks, Fountains of Wayne 's 2007 Traffic and Weather stands as one of the decade's essential recordings.

EX HUMANS, BARRERACUDAS, PREDATOR, STOLEN HEARTS Former Carbonas/Beat Beat Beat guitarist Josh Martin returns from New York for a set of fast, raw, punk rock melody and catharsis.

As it goes, Taylor's been getting some on the side, too. In 2006, after years of batting around ideas with his friend Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, Taylor says, "we started talking about doing this straight-ahead live-guitar record and kicking me out to the front of the stage without an instrument, just to be a singer." Taylor Hanson was ...

We told you about Fountains of Wayne coming to Montclair State's Alexander Kasser Theatre , to help out Glenfield Middle School here .

SINGAPORE: There are several reasons why you should go to Baybeats 2009. One, there'll be some interesting collaborations by Chris Collingwood of Fountains Of Wayne fame, with local musicians Kevin Mathews and the Lilac Saints, as well as Brit singer Ally Kerr and local band Leeson.

This must be the summer of the super group as, once again, we have another group of musicians from established bands getting together, this time to form Tinted Windows.

This must be the summer of the super group as, once again, we have another group of musicians from established bands getting together, this time to form Tinted Windows.

There aren't many Montclair School District alumni who can say they've attended nearly half of the district's 11 schools.

Andy Chase, the man behind the one-man recording project Brookville, is no stranger to the pop music industry.

So no matter how insistently I refused to believe in them for months, I got first-person, eyewitness proof last night that a supergroup comprised of members of Cheap Trick , the Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne and Hanson does actually exist.