Fountains Of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger Knows You Well: Tomato’s House Of Rock (THOR)

The great Fountains Of Wayne just issued their fifth album in a career that dates back 15 years. Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc) was recorded by the band—vocalist/guitarist Chris Collingwood, multi-instrumentalist Adam Schlesinger, guitarist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young—in New York City at the studio Schlesinger co-owns, and it may be the quartet’s best effort to date. Fountains Of Wayne is currently on tour, but Collingwood and Schlesinger will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with the dynamic duo.

Schlesinger: “Tomato” is Chris Harfenist of the bands the Sound Of Urchin and Diamondsnake (his hard-rock band with Moby). THOR is a rock-music school that he runs in New York City. Tomato pretty much rocks harder than anyone, and he has a lot of well-known friends who also rock quite hard—like Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden, Testament and Ween. So for kids who aspire to do the same, this would be a good starting point.

Video after the jump.