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April 15, 2005

Fountains Serve "Plates"

Two-disc rarities collection due in June
January 24, 2005

Fountains Meet Hollies

New hitmakers salute old for "Dreams"
October 20, 2004

Fountains Take Broadway

Frontman Adam Schlesinger tries his hand at show tunes
March 18, 2003

Fountains "Welcome" New CD

Iha, Randolph guest on first new release in four years

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Traffic and Weather

The big problem with anointing Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger the great standard-bearers of modern pop song is that there's no one else like them. Really, who? Max Martin? John Mayer? The Blur guys when they got along? If Fountains of Wayne resemble anyone, it's Randy Newman, who also escape...

2007 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Out-Of-State Plates

2005

Welcome Interstate Managers

2003

Utopia Parkway

1999

Fountains Of Wayne

1996

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If Nirvana was the voice of the youthful, emergent Generation X of the early '90s, then New York's Fountains of Wayne are the voice of the same generation a few years on, in the midst of an extended adolescence. Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood, the group's songwriting team, were in their late 20s when they released their self-titled debut, and on that record they write knowingly of characte...

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