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The Davenports return to Joeʼs Pub to celebrate the upcoming release of their third record, which sets tales of love, lust, mean, money-dangling mothers, superstitious panic attacks and the like, to a torrent of guitar-driven, melodic pop.Helmed by Brooklyn-based songwriter Scott Klass, The Davenports features Angela Webster and Tommy Borscheid (Rhett Miller), and Thomas Ward, and it has included members of They Might Be Giants and Candy Butchers. Violinist Claudia Chopek and cellists Eleanor Norton and Garro Yellin add multiple layers of melancholy to the mix when successfully blackmailed. The Davenports’ song "Five Steps" is the theme to A&E's Emmy-nominated series, Intervention, now in its fourth season.
In late 2003, Fountains of Wayne received a flattering, but rather puzzling, "Best New Artist" Grammy nomination. This certainly made long-time fans chuckle; those in the know knew that Welcome Interstate Managers, the album that spawned the ubiquitous "Stacy's Mom" and topped critics' polls everywhere, was actually the New York-based group's third collection of melodic pop/rock gems. And far from being a flash in the pan, the quartet was considered by many to be — in the words of Robert Christgau — "peerless" and "true art heroes", or as Entertainment Weekly called them, "America's greatest extant rock and roll band." But FOW couldn't help enjoying the new-found attention as they began headlining bigger venues, topping charts on MTV and VH1, and appearing on a "Now That's What I Call Music" compilation CD next to the likes of Jay-Z, Nickelback and Black Eyed Peas.
Former schoolmates Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood formed Fountains of Wayne in 1996 as a vehicle for their mutual love of pop songcraft. Their second album, 1999's widely-heralded Utopia Parkway, featured all four members in the recording studio, as did 2003's breakthrough Welcome Interstate Managers. By now, the band has developed a sixth sense for arranging Schlesinger and Collingwood's songs. And while the records have gotten progressively more detailed and nuanced, FOW live remains a lean, loud guitar band with a decade's worth of singalong faves to pick from. Tonight, Collingwood plays an acoustic set of Fountains of Wayne material as well as a number of self-penned tunes.
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