Later in 2016, the band released the standalone single ‘Stunt Queen’ to mark their performance at the Hollywood Bowl , which Okereke claimed was a “significant milestone” for the band. It marks some of the first new material that featured Harris and Bartle as co-writers.
Gray and Dobrzanski united with new members Cody Hiles and Dwight Abell, and the Zolas began touring again during mid-2015. In January 2016, the band released a new single, “Swooner”, to announce its third studio album of the same name, which was released on March 4, 2016.
In January 2016 the band appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and performed “Mess Around”.
In August, the band announced that the album title would be Walls (backronym for We Are Like Love Songs ), and that it would be released October 14, 2016. The first single from the album, ” Waste a Moment “, was released on September 9, 2016. The album went on…
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On July 8, 2016, Awolnation released an alternate version of Run named Run (Beautiful Things) , where the repeating lyric “capable of doing terrible things” is replaced with “capable of doing beautiful things.” The music video for this shows a person in a cloak with the AWOL helmet holding a…
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While touring with The Smashing Pumpkins, Manson indicated a “strong possibility” of working with Corgan on new material, and also revealed plans to collaborate with Korn frontman Jonathan Davis on a ” Southern -sounding, acoustic” project. Manson announced in an interview with KEGL in November that work had begun on…
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St. Louis radio station 105.7 The Point announced on April 19, 2016, that Stir would be part of the lineup for its Wayback Pointfest on July 9, 2016, at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater.
The band never issued an official announcement that they had broken up. However, by 2016, all the members were speaking of Fountains of Wayne in the past tense. Neither Schlesinger nor Collingwood had ruled out a future reunion, but both saw the possibility as remote. “I try never to say…
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The band embarked on an early 2016 U.S. tour with Glassjaw , I the Mighty , and Silver Snakes, and a late 2016 U.S. tour with Saves the Day and Polyphia .
The band’s sixth studio album, DNA was released on August 19, 2016. It was the band’s poorest charting album to date, debuting and peaking at number 148 on the Billboard 200 chart. Two of its singles, “Passenger” and “It’s Over”, were able to make it into the top 50 on…
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