Andy Chase and Dominique Durand needed to see what was left of their band. It was 2021, a decade after the last album they’d made with the acclaimed indie-pop group Ivy, and a year after the sudden, tragic death from Covid of the band’s third member, Adam Schlesinger. So Chase …
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Five years after the Covid-related death of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, the band’s surviving members will reunite for their first public performance in a dozen years. Milwaukee’s Summerfest announced its lineup Wednesday, and deep on the bill was Fountains of Wayne; the band’s founding members — singer Chris Collingwood, …
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Ivy crafted one of the Nineties’ great lost indie-pop gems with their 1997 cult classic Apartment Life. It’s one of the decade’s sharpest portraits of modern urban romance: exquisitely moody adult love songs, all purred by Paris-born chanteuse Dominique Durand in her groovy French accent. And now is a great …
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Courtney Love, Sean Ono Lennon, Mickey Dolenz, and more will perform an Adam Schlesinger tribute concert on May 5th. Held virtually with performances filmed at New York City’s Bowery Electric, the show will feature musicians covering songs from the late Fountains of Wayne frontman’s catalogue. Patrick Carney, Peter Buck, James …
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