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October 6, 2000

Fastball Finalize Tour Plans

Fastball line up the first leg of a U.S. Tour
September 27, 2000

Fastball's Aim Remains True on New Album

Texas trio Fastball keep throwing heat with "The Harsh Light of Day"
September 26, 2000

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Miles on Green Day
September 22, 2000

Fastball's Aim Remains True on New Album

Texas trio Fastball keep throwing heat with "The Harsh Light of Day"

Recordings and Reviews

Keep Your Wig On

True to form for this Austin trio, which scored a hit in 1998 with "The Way," its fourth CD offers bright, often dull pop rock that comes with alt-country dustiness, Seventies piano ballads and melodic clarity worthy of Fountains of Wayne, whom they almost match for faux-Beatles appeal.

2004 RS: 2of 5 Stars

The Harsh Light Of Day

2000

All The Pain Money Can Buy

1998

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Biography

This Austin, TX, trio -- complete with two equally talented songwriters in guitarist Miles Zuniga and bassist Tony Scalzo -- entered into the pop consciousness in 1998 on the strength of "The Way," one of the great pop-rock radio moments of the era. Scalzo gives the anonymous couple who walk off into "eternal summer slacking" a quietly heroic dignity and grace, turning an everyday romance into epi...

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