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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Tonight Tonight in Music: Fountains of Wayne

Posted by on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:00 AM


Fountains of Wayne - "Mexican Wine"

Fountains of Wayne, Jon Auer
(Triple Door) Fountains of Wayne exist among the handful of wry pop-music portraitists invariably compared—no matter how drastic the differences in instrumentation and execution—to Randy Newman, the longtime master of wry pop-music portraiture. It's a tricky game: Such songwriting demands a succinctness that risks glibness, which is conquered (when it's conquered) only by the richness and vividness of the collected details. Fountains of Wayne ride the glib/concise divide like no others, and when they're good—the majority of 2001's Welcome Interstate Managers, a smattering of tracks from the others—they're very, very good. Tonight the band play a full acoustic show of old favorites and new tracks from their forthcoming 2009 release. Power-pop bonus: Jon Auer opens (he's also headlining Triple Door on January 17). DAVID SCHMADER

There's more! For example: Sirens Sister and Kane Hodder play Chop Suey, the Fading Collection and the Kindness Kind are at Neumos, Gladiators Eat Fire and the Ironclads are at the Funhouse, and Blake Lewis is at Trinity. Weigh all your options in our online calendar.

 

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