If you’re an unabashed power pop fan, it’s certainly the perfect thing to, um, pop into your car stereo; in fact, your greatest issue with the album may prove to be a profound lack of desire to remove it from the player.  Full text...

Fountains of Wayne turn ordinary life into far-better-than-average songs on Traffic and Weather  Full text...

It's easy to shelve Fountains Of Wayne aside as shallow pop stars only out to get a laugh. However, most of the songs on Traffic And Weather are honest, written from life experience and just plain fun.  Full text...

Two lonely young professionals don't meet cute (she beats him to a cab in the rain); anchorpersons reveal their undying mutual attraction to fans awaiting the ball scores; a single proves so jaded she'd rather move back to Canada than pursue true romance with a Liechtensteinian in Bowling Green.  Full text...

Love, Death, and Stuckey's: Another Night Alone with Fountains of Wayne.  Full text...

'Traffic, Weather,' a pitch for radio.  Full text...

The album isn’t perfect however and occasionally hits some snags when the band tries to slow down the party. The song “This Better Be Good” is a perfect example and sounds like a bad cross between Weezer, who should have called it a day after recording the great novelty hit “Buddy Holly,” and Modest Mouse.  Full text...

Traffic and Weather sounds like a collection of big-hook choruses strung together with half-hearted chugging build-ups. At its worst... well, it's far and away the most forgettable thing the band has ever released.  Full text...

Traffic and Weather finds Fountains Of Wayne offering more of the same and yet decidedly less, working your nerves to the point where you’ll wonder whether you ever truly liked them in the first place.  Full text...