Welcome Interstate Managers is a perfect and great album. Every song is necessary and loved. Some of the songs are serious, some are lighthearted, but even the trifles are brilliant. That said: this album has 17 tracks (including the bonus). Some of these great songs are greater than the other great songs. I’m here to…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Adam Schlesinger, the absurdly talented and prolific songwriter, died yesterday from coronavirus complications. Go to hell, COVID-19. Schlesinger, best known for co-founding Fountains of Wayne and co-writing over 150 songs for the musical-comedy TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, was 52. He had been churning out songs and musical projects for more than 25 years for…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. I mentioned in the first post of Adam Schlesinger week that I fell in love with Adam Schlesinger multiple times, independently, without realizing it. Never was that more true than for “That Thing You…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. As if running two successful bands, and now a third, plus ghostwriting for plenty of pop stars and other musical projects, wasn’t enough, Adam Schlesinger is also part of one of the most ambitious…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. As if Schlesinger didn’t already have enough on his plate (see tomorrow’s song for even more), he debuted another music project in late 2017: Fever High, ostensibly his third flagship band, after Ivy and…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. In my first post of Adam Schlesinger week, I called Fountains of Wayne “his flagship project,” but really Schlesinger has had two signature bands, and Ivy actually came before Fountains. This fact also calls…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. In 2009, power pop supergroup Tinted Windows formed and released their first (to date, only) album. The band has four members: Taylor Hanson on vocals, James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins on guitar, Bun E. Carlos…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. The Click Five was a failed boy band from the mid 2000’s. They notched one minor hit before The Jonas Brothers swooped into capture the preteen girls demo. The Click Five’s debut album, Greetings from…
Who is Adam Schlesinger? Find out this week, as I explore some of my favorite tracks by the power pop savant. I became a fan of Adams Schlesinger five or six times without realizing I did. Adam is a songwriter, producer, band-leader, and performer who writes absolutely astounding pop hooks and tunes. Where other great pop…