韦恩喷泉乐队（Fountains Of Wayne）其实不算是新兴团体了，1996年他们就推出了首张专辑，获得本届格莱美提名的《Welcome Interstate Managers》已经是他们第三张专辑了。
这个乐队的来历不简单，不过我们只要把重点放在亚当.施辛格（Adam Schlesinger）和克里斯.克林伍德（Chris Collingwood）就行了，因为这个有着奇怪名字的乐团领导就是这俩人。他们什么时候开始玩音乐的呢？按他俩的说法是“上个世纪在大学的某个时候”，具体时间地点其实就是1986年，两人在马萨诸塞洲威廉大学上学的时候。他们对British pop有共同的爱好，而且哥俩的精力都特别旺盛，分别都组建过多支乐队，而两人合作之后组建的乐队也是数不胜数。“韦恩喷泉”这个名字够怪吧？但是和他们那时期组织的很多乐队名字比起来，简直是小巫见大巫，比如“你是我妈么？”（Are You My Mother?），还有“三个并排站在一起总共超过12只脚的男人”（Three Men Who When Standing Side By Side Have A Wingspan Of Over Twelve Feet），简直搞笑无聊到极点……
经过一段时间之后，俩人开始准备独立制作专辑了，可是费了好大劲儿结果专辑没做完也没发行，合作也暂时终止，哥俩开始分头发展。施辛格与多米尼克.杜兰德（Domenique Durand，女性），以及 安迪.撤斯（Andy Chase）组建了一支名叫Ivy的乐队，结果这只乐队日后获得了相当的成功；而克林伍德则加入了波士顿当地乐队Mercy Buckets。
直到1996年，他们又在纽约重新聚首，正式成立了“韦恩喷泉乐队”（这个名字是从新泽西一家礼品店得来的灵感）。两人都准备了相当多的歌，不过尽管成功录制了首张同名专辑，但是乐队还是迅速补充了乔迪.波特（Jody Porter）以及布莱恩.杨（Brian Young）俩人，而随后"Radiation Vibe" 以及"Sink To The Bottom"这两支歌曲的成功，也让新进的二人暂时放弃原先各自的乐队，四人组合超过了一年。
接下来又是短暂的各自发展。特别是施辛格，他堪称是1997年美国最忙碌的音乐人。不仅继续Ivy乐团的事业，而且做为独立唱片公司Scratchie Records的负责人，还和著名乐队“碎瓜”（Smashing Pumpkins）的James Iha和D'arcy一起工作，同时，他还给影帝汤姆汉克斯导演的电影《挡不住的奇迹》（That Thing You Do）做配乐，结果得到了金球以及奥斯卡的提名。
到了1999年，“韦恩喷泉”推出了他们的第二张专辑《Utopia Parkway》，结果专辑大获成功，吸引了大批国内外的歌迷，并且被多个杂志媒体评选为“年度最佳”之一，接着就是进行长达一年多的世界巡回演出，而且不知什么原因学会了用多国语言说：“我是雨杀……
by Jason Ankeny & Andrew LeaheyThe New York City-based power pop band Fountains of Wayne is anchored by the singer/songwriter duo of Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood, who first teamed together in 1986 while studying at Massachusetts Williams College. Sharing a mutual affection for melodic British pop, they formed a series of short-lived bands before recording an LP under the name Pinnwheel. Legal hassles blocked the albums release, however, and the duo went their separate ways, with Schlesinger resurfacing in the N.Y.C. indie pop band Ivy and Collingwood joining the Boston country group Mercy Buckets. They reunited in 1996 as Fountains of Wayne (so named in honor of a lawn ornament store in Wayne, NJ) and issued their acclaimed self-titled LP on Atlantic; that same year, Schlesinger also enjoyed success as the author of the title theme to Tom Hanks rock & roll movie That Thing You Do! Schlesingers addition to the hit soundtrack garnered a Grammy nomination and an RIAA gold certification in 1997. While Fountains of Waynes debut did not enjoy similar success, selling only 125,000 copies in the U.S., the band nevertheless toured the world alongside the Lemonheads and the Smashing Pumpkins (whose guitarist James Iha would prove to be an important champion of the group). Guitarist Jody Porter and ex-Posies drummer Brian Young joined FOWs touring lineup, later becoming official members with the bands sophomore release.Fountains of Waynes follow-up effort, Utopia Parkway, arrived in 1999, and the single Denise was a modest hit at college radio. However, like its predecessor, the album sold poorly despite being warmly received by critics. Frustrations subsequently grew between Fountains of Wayne and Atlantic, who neglected to promote the standout track Trouble Times as a single, and the band was dropped from the Atlantic roster in late 1999. A long hiatus followed, during which Schlesinger co-wrote several songs for the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack, released a third album with Ivy, and produced albums for the Verve Pipe, David Mead, and They Might Be Giants. The band reconvened four years later, funneling their own money into Welcome Interstate Managers. Released in 2003 on the S-Curve label, the album gave Fountains of Wayne their first taste of Billboard-certified success with Stacys Mom, a hit across several charts and the bands first Top 40 entry. The accompanying music video featured Rachel Hunter as the songs voluptuous title character; perhaps predictably, it became a staple at MTV. Follow-up singles Mexican Wine and Hey Julie fared less well, but Welcome Interstate Managers nevertheless went gold and whetted the publics appetite for future Fountains of Wayne releases.Two new songs, unreleased material, and live cuts were collected on the double-disc Out-of-State Plates in 2005. The album was supported by the single Maureen, and Fountains of Wayne embarked on a limited tour before returning home, where Schlesinger kept up his songwriting talents by penning four tracks for the soundtrack to the 2007 film Music & Lyrics. 2007 also saw the releases of another FOW album, Traffic and Weather, which continued the bands tradition of wedding power pop orchestration to literate lyrics about travel, relationships, and occupational monotony.