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Fountains of Wayne: Schlesinger, far left
How about something to look forward to in January that’s absolutely nothing to do with what color the Obama girls’ bedroom walls will be? Last Friday, Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger told Examiner.com that the power pop band will perform its first ever acoustic tour in the US, through January and February. The idea, says Schlesinger, is “to try out some new songs.”
That’s right new songs. Despite Schlesinger’s busy involvement on Broadway and TV, he says a new album is about half finished. The new tour will be a full band tour, just performed acoustically.
“It’ll just be a little bit mellower than usual,” says the 41-year-old. And cheaper than hauling loads of gear around, too. “It’s a little cheaper. We just wanted to do something different.”
Fountains of Wayne’s career hit the mainstream with the 2003 hit, “Stacey’s Mom.” Schlesinger is a veteran indie pop delight, playing bass in the trio Ivy, before reuniting with old college pal Chris Collingwood and forming FoW in 1996. A busy songwriter, Schlesinger was nominated for two Tony Awards for co-writing the Broadway adaptation of John Waters' movie, “Cry-Baby,” with “Daily Show” producer David Javerbaum. Schlesinger and Javerbaum reunited to write eight original holiday themed songs for the upcoming “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All,” which premiers on Comedy Central on Nov. 23. The songs are performed by sow host Stephen Colbert, along with “Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart, Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Toby Keith, and Willie Nelson.
“It was very exciting for me, I must admit,” says Schlesinger form his home in New York City. “I got to work with a lot of people I never expected to work with, like Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson. And Toby Keith. It was a really fun project. Everyone who works on the Colbert show is incredibly talented and smart and funny.” We suspected as much.
As far as FoW goes, so far there is no set date for the completion or release of the new album: “[It’ll come out] whenever it’s done. We’re slow. We want to get it out next summertime, but we’ve got a long way to go.”
Schlesinger is reluctant to even think about a format for its release and whether the band has a record label lined up.
“We shall see how that plays out. I hate to even say at this point. Who knows what the music business will look like by the time this record is finished. It seems to be changing every six months.
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