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.
Collingwood: A masterstroke with the longest, most detailed and irrelevant setup about spelunking, dinosaur turds and Y2K—and a payoff so visceral and immediate that knowing it’s coming doesn’t make it any less perfect. He concludes by saying he wishes he were in a coma so he wouldn’t have to listen to people’s stupid shit. I saw George Carlin shortly before he died, at the Calvin Theater in Northampton, Mass. His timing was off, and he spent quite a while talking about old age, but it’s a tribute to the guy that he was just as pissed off at the end of his life as he was in the ’70s.
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