{"id":806357,"date":"2020-04-14T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=983111"},"modified":"2020-04-14T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:38:46","slug":"hear-fountains-of-wayne-guitarist-jody-porters-heavy-new-song-moonbeam-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-fountains-of-wayne-guitarist-jody-porters-heavy-new-song-moonbeam-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Fountains of Wayne Guitarist Jody Porter\u2019s Heavy New Song \u2018Moonbeam Reach\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before Jody Porter was known to the world as the lead guitarist in Fountains of Wayne<\/a>, he fronted the Belltower<\/a>, a shoegaze-leaning rock group that made waves in the U.K. in the early Nineties. A decade before that, in the early Eighties, he was a young sailing instructor in Charleston, South Carolina, where he grew up.<\/p>\n

Porter combines those threads from his past on his latest solo album, Waterways<\/em>, recorded over the last two years with a cast of characters he calls the Berlin Waltz. \u201cIt\u2019s like the Plastic Ono Band,\u201d he says. \u201cAlways revolving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mostly, though, he recorded the album on his own at his home near Asheville, North Carolina, layering guitars and vocals in a manner reminiscent of his Belltower days as well as contemporaries like My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Several tracks feature drumming from Porter\u2019s Fountains of Wayne brother-in-arms Brian Young. You can hear it all on \u201cMoonbeam Reach,\u201d a heavy new track premiering at Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

Revisiting the psychedelic guitar-swirl sound he favored in the early Nineties was a natural choice, Porter says. \u201cI would\u2019ve been a fool not to,\u201d he jokes. \u201cIt just hit Brooklyn last year or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like much of the new album, \u201cMoonbeam Reach\u201d features impressionistic lyrics about sailing. A \u201cbeam reach,\u201d he explains, is the fastest way to point a sail, 90 degrees to the wind. \u201cAnd a moonbeam is something that comes out of the sky that you need to see if you\u2019re out on the water at night, which we all are right now,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Porter hopes to release Waterways<\/em> later this year. He had been planning to support it with a solo tour, for which he would have gotten out his old road cases from past Fountains tours. \u201cI was about to polish them off and put some stuff in there, and hook up the trailer and the minivan, and be the soccer mom,\u201d Porter says ruefully. \u201cI guess it\u2019s going to be a few more months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more of Porter\u2019s memories of his days in Fountains of Wayne in our new in-depth feature on the life and work of his good friend and bandmate Adam Schlesinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Before Jody Porter was known to the world as the lead guitarist in Fountains of Wayne, he fronted the Belltower, a shoegaze-leaning rock group that made waves in the U.K. in the early Nineties. A decade before that, in the early Eighties, he was a young sailing instructor in Charleston, South Carolina, where he grew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 05:23:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}