In May 2020, speaking on the podcast Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal , Lori Barbero said that there was very little chance of future reunions from the band.
In May, Bleachers was featured on Carly Rae Jepsen ‘s song “Comeback” which was the first official release of the band in nearly two years.
However, Christian revealed in May 2020 that they had reversed course and were in the process of recording new music.
A day later, their twenty-first single ” The Beyond ” was released in limited production. It became their first song in over 20 years to top the Oricon Singles Chart .
On April 29, Manson and Jennings confirmed they had finished work on the band’s eleventh studio album, with both calling it a “masterpiece”.
The next day, it was announced that the Two Thousand Trees Festival was being pushed back to 2021, also due to the pandemic.
On April 28, 2020, the band released the digital song “Make a Vow”, which was produced remotely within two weeks as an answer to the pandemic.
On April 27, 2020, Puget said that the album was finished, but that its release date was being pushed back as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic .
On April 23, the band confirmed that they had begun work on a fourteenth studio album, utilizing the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 to begin writing. The album was said to be fully written as of April 2021.
The surviving members of Fountains of Wayne performed together for the first time since 2013 on April 22, 2020, as part of a charity livestream event to raise funding for the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. The performance was a tribute to Schlesinger, and featured Sharon Van Etten taking his…
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