On February 12, 2025, multiple posts from official band social media announced Fountains of Wayne’s appearance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest on July 4, 2025. Max Collins of the band Eve 6 was announced as the bassist for this show. Adam Schlesinger’s family gave their blessings for the reunion, with Steven M.…
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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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Adam Schlesinger died of complications from COVID-19 on April 1, 2020.
Schlesinger and Collingwood, meanwhile, remained distant. “I don’t even know where Adam lives now,” Collingwood told an interviewer in 2019.
and again in 2018 on the group’s Christmas Party
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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In 2016, Collingwood released what was essentially a solo album that was issued under the group name Look Park. At the time of the album release, he elaborated on Fountains of Wayne’s demise by saying, “When we were recording the record before the last Fountains of Wayne record, which was…
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Porter and Young joined Schlesinger in 2016 on the Monkees ‘ album Good Times!
The final Fountains of Wayne show took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 19, 2013.
They also issued one final new track in 2013, “Trucks”, written and produced by Sandra Boynton for Boynton’s kid-friendly various artists album Frog Trouble .