Fountains of Wayne

”The five of us talk about what kind of influences and sounds we want to incorporate. We end up sharing and talking about so much different music over our group texts or in the van… this playlist is some of those songs, some classics and just some recent great tracks we’ve been digging…”

The tribute album also features Schlesinger covers by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom, Motion City Soundtrack, Charly Bliss, Sad13, Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley, and more while raising money for COVID-19 relief.

Fountains of Wayne members Chris Collingwood Jody Porter and Brian Young reunited in isolation to play the Jersey 4 Jersey livestream benefit and to pay tribute to co-founder Adam Schlesinger who died in April from coronavirus complications. “Hackensack” has now been released as a charity single…

Exclusive/special releases for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones’ Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more….

Wednesday night was the Jersey 4 Jersey charity broadcast which raised money for the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund and featured a whole host of famous Jersey natives…

Sharon will play bass and sing backup with Fountains of Wayne at the benefit, which also features Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Jon Bon Jovi, Tony Bennett and more.

Activity, which includes members of Grooms, Russian Baths and Field Mouse, released their terrific debut album in March.

Ben’s livestreams now happen on a weekly basis as of last night, and the first of his weekly livestreams included an Adam Schlesinger tribute.

Today’s picks for amazing live videos to watch while there are no actual shows to attend include the late Adam Schlesinger’s band Fountains of Wayne, the Grateful Dead’s Closing of Winterland concert, and more.

Schlesinger had been in an upstate New York hospital for over a week where he was “very sick and heavily sedated.“ He was 52.