Fountains Serve "Plates"

Fountains of Wayne will release Out-of-State Plates, a two-disc collection of rarities, on June 28th. The compilation features twenty-six tracks that span the pop-rockers' ten-year career.

"We've got a lot of stuff that was released only in really obscure ways," Fountains co-frontman Adam Schlesinger told Rolling Stone. "There are songs from European singles, compilations and a few things that haven't been released at all."

Plates features the band's 1999 cover of Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time," which garnered much attention when Howard Stern broadcast it on his radio show. The compilation also includes covers of songs by Jackson Browne, Burt Bacharach, Aztec Camera and ELO; fan-favorite oddities like "I Want an Alien for Christmas" and "California Sex Lawyer"; and two new tracks penned by Schlesinger and songwriting partner Chris Collingwood, "Maureen" and "The Girl I Can't Forget."

Meanwhile, the band has begun recording new material for the anticipated follow-up to 2003's Grammy-nominated Welcome Interstate Managers. Schlesinger is also writing music for the Broadway adaptation of the 1990 John Waters film Cry Baby, set to debut in 2006.