Fountains of Wayne to play at Tower

“Stacy’s Mom” will grace campus during Lawnparties this year after Tower Club secured the rock band Fountains of Wayne to play at the club on May 4.

“Fountains of Wayne has a ton of name recognition,” Tower president Stephanie Burset ’09 said in an e-mail. “[W]e were excited that they are a local band from New Jersey.”

The band, which hails from Wayne, N.J., a small city about 60 miles north of Princeton, will join Eve 6, Howie Day and New Found Glory on campus next month. For some, the band will be the main attraction of Lawnparties.

“They’re one of my favorite bands,” Alex Il Grande ’11 said. “To me, [their music] is sort of a throwback to ’80s music in some regard. I think that a lot of their songs are good, and I’d like to see them.”

Chris Baldassano ’09 shares the sentiment.

“Their music is very upbeat,” he said. “It’s great to listen to when I’ve gone for drives, and I think that makes it very appropriate for Lawnparties.”

“My roommate is actually from Wayne, so there’s a little bit of a connection,” he added.

Tower has in the past hosted bands like Easy Star All Stars, Carbon Leaf, Ben Kweller and, “perhaps most famously, Gunther,” Burset said.