Fountains Of Wayne will break a nearly four-year span between studio albums with the April 3 release of the Virgin project “Traffic and Weather.” First single “Someone To Love” will arrive in late February at U.S. radio outlets. “It’s a little bit ‘Elanor Rigby’-esque, in that it’s about these two lonely people living in New York,” group member Adam Schlesinger tells Billboard.com of the single. “It has a disco-y beat, which is something we don’t do a lot of. Melissa Auf Der Maur sings backing vocals, and that’s the first female vocal we’ve had since Dominique Durand from Ivy on… Read more »
New York power-pop combo Fountains of Wayne will give fans a musical travelogue of their near-decade together with the release of Out-of-State Plates. Due on June 28, the double-disc set contains a whopping 26 non-album tracks recorded at various stages during the band’s career. Intended to appeal to both die-hard fans and newbies snared by the hit “Stacy’s Mom,” the set is a motherlode of rarities and unreleased tracks; there are also five covers and two brand-new songs. The title might seem to continue the automotive theme that the band used on its last two albums, 1999’s Utopia Parkway and… Read more »
Fountains of Wayne are the latest victims of MTV’s super-sensitivity following the infamous Super Bowl halftime show. Fountains of Wayne made a video for the song “Mexican Wine” that originally showed twin ten-year-old girls jumping up and down saying they were going to perform “‘Mexican Wine’ by Fountains of Wayne!” The new version doesn’t have the girls saying that, and while they do lip-synch the song, at no point does it show them lip-synching the words “Mexican Wine.” A source tells the New York Post that MTV wouldn’t show the video because the girls were saying the word “wine.” An… Read more »
The members of Fountains Of Wayne were just as shocked as the rest of the world at last week’s Grammy nomination in the Best New Artist category. Lead singer Adam Schlesinger revealed he’s thrilled about the nod, but finds it ironic considering the band has been around for more than seven years. “I was told that it has to do with, defining it as the record that sort of gets you into the larger public consciousness or something,” Schlesinger said. “So I guess, in that sense, maybe it’s a fair definition. Yeah, this is our third record. Our first record… Read more »
We have officially reached the finish line of our 100 Rising Artists You Need To Listen To In 2024! With the new year in full swing, we hope that idobi Radio has exposed you to some of the most exciting, rising artists across a multitude of genres through this series. Who knows? Maybe we’ll even expand it further next year *wink wink.* One thing is for sure: we will absolutely continue to bring you the best new music from your next favorite artists. Thank you for joining idobi Radio in showcasing 100 Rising Artists You Need To Listen To In… Read more »
The Nashville-based punk rock label, Pure Noise Records has announced the second installment of their Dead Formats compilation albums. Dead Formats Vol. 2 will see many bands from the Pure Noise Records roster covering classic songs across the punk and rock genres. The album will drop on September 15th and holds an impressive fifteen tracks in total. So far, three tracks have dropped. This includes a cover of “Losing A Whole Year” originally by Third Eye Blind and performed by Knuckle Puck, “Come Dancing” originally by The Kinks and performed by Less Than Jake, and “Lithium” originally by Nirvana and… Read more »
September is the birth month to some pretty legendary records, all of which are celebrating 10 year anniversaries.
Recorded from his apartment in North Hollywood, this week’s Gone Fishkin takes place while Fish is on the road with the Vans Warped Tour. He takes on the show co-host-less, and tells stories about Hopeless Records BBQ’s, Jack Barakat’s birthday party, and his latest trip to Vegas, before chatting with Crash The Party, Rivers Monroe, and Lost In Society.
We posted about the Fearless/Hopeless Records mashup album that SoundCloud user Dr Brixx released, but we stumbled across another mashup that sounds all too familiar to our pop-punk honed ears.
The Wonder Years release Sleeping on Trash: A Collection of Songs Recorded 2005-2010 through No Sleep Records on February 12th, 2013. The album consists of 18 tracks featuring various rarities, original demos, and cover songs.
