Jody Porter's song A Beautiful Life is featured in the new film The Messenger, see their website for theaters and showtimes. Also check out jodyporter.com for more information on his album Into The Sun.

  The Newark Star Ledger names Welcome Interstate Managers one of the decade's best albums.

  FoW's Adam Schlesinger won a Grammy for "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!", which was named Best Comedy Album. The songs were written by Adam and David Javerbaum and the album was co-produced by Adam and (sometime FOW keyboardist) Steven Gold.

  Katy Perry has included her version of Fountains Of Wayne's "Hackensack" on her new CD and DVD, "Katy Perry: MTV Unplugged". http://katyperry.com/

  Chris Collingwood and friend Rick Murnane have recorded a track for a tribute record to fellow Northampton, MA resident Mark Mulcahy. The song, called "Cookie Jar," appears on "Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy," a diverse collection featuring contributions from Thom Yorke, Frank Black, Michael Stipe, and many others.

Mark lost his wife last year, the mother of his three-year-old twins. A full track list and links to more information can be found at markmulcahy.com.

  Adam Schlesinger has received an Emmy nomination for the song "Much Worse Things", co-written with David Javerbaum. The song was performed as a duet by Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello on the Comedy Central special "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!" (now on DVD) and is also available on iTunes.

  To listen to FoW's recent performance on NPR's Mountain Stage, go here.

  "Prom Theme" from Utopia Parkway was featured "prom"-inently in a recent episode of Gossip Girl. YouTube

  Tinted Windows is a new group featuring FoW's Adam Schlesinger along with Taylor Hanson, James Iha and Bun E. Carlos. The album will be released April 21st. For information go to myspace.com/tintedwindows.

  Check out Kumeelyn's "Traffic And Truth", a mashup of FoW's "Traffic And Weather" and Depeche Mode's "Policy Of Truth".

  The original, long-lost video for "Troubled Times", from Utopia Parkway, has graciously been posted by someone on YouTube. The video was shot by the band in Japan during their 1999/2000 tour on Super 8 film and was never released outside Japan. You can view at either our MySpace page or YouTube site under the Favorites section.

  Dar WIlliams covers FoW's "Troubled Times" on her new album Promised Land. You can check it out on her myspace page.


  A special Fountains of Wayne "Live from the Apple Store - Soho" ep, taken from an in-store performance in April, is now available for download from the iTunes store.

  Fountains of Wayne are featured in Rolling Stone magazine, in an article entitled "Grown-Up Pop Dreams"

  Watch the July 19th Conan O'Brien performance at YouTube.

  The new video for "Someone To Love" can be viewed on the video page, as well as the band's MySpace and YouTube sites.

  TRAFFIC AND WEATHER, the new album, is available now on Virgin Records. Order and listen to clips here.


  Rolling Stone gives Traffic and Weather four stars.

  Entertainment Weekly calls Traffic and Weather "a simply wonderful CD of songs about love, lust and loneliness."

  The Los Angeles Times calls first single Someone To Love an "opening volley" in" FoW's "continuing quest for pop perfection."

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