The life and music of late musician and songwriter, Adam Schlesinger, will be honored at a concert filmed at New York’s Bowery Electric. Rolling Live, the streaming website, will debut the event, which was organized by Schlesinger’s Fountains of Wayne bandmate, Jody Porter. “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of […]
In the 1980s, music and film collided for cross-promotional blockbusters both transcendent (Purple Rain) and transcendently cheesy (Footloose). In the ‘90s, soundtracks continued to sell in the millions, capturing cultural moments like the Seattle grunge of Singles or the Britpop and electronica of Trainspotting. Auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson reached deep into their […]
Gifted pop songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who wrote the hits “Stacy’s Mom” and “That Thing You Do” along with countless clever hooks for Fountains of Wayne and laugh-riot genre send-ups for musical/comedy TV series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, died on April 1 following a battle with COVID-19. There will never be another like him. Today he’s getting a […]