The online concert will be hosted by Jason Sudeikis and feature an incredible lineup of music (Foo Fighters, Camila Cabello, Blake Shelton, etc). Two of the songs will be featured this Saturday, November 14th at 7pm Central Time for Thundergong!, a benefit concert for Steps of Faith, raising funds for amputees in need. We’re excited for you to see and hear it. It was the first time the band had gotten together since March and it was so great to play music again. We filmed and recorded a performance recently at 3TEN in our hometown of Austin, TX. Here's a little video trailer of the making of it. So please check out the page and join us, will you? The first offering is a blistering new single called 'Chump Change' that Tony wrote. Any money made will help with future recordings, which we hope to continue to offer on our Patreon campaign. It's exciting to be releasing music to you shortly after recording it and right now this feels like the right thing to do and we hope you agree and join us. And for the first time in our career, we recorded a selection of cover songs, which will be part of this, and we think you'll be pleasantly surprised by some of the choices.Īnd we took a lot of video footage thru out the recording process, which we'll be sharing with you. Steve Berlin, who produced our last album (The Help Machine), produced some of the songs, and we produced some of the songs ourselves. The new music is some of the best music we've ever made and it won’t be released anywhere else. We will post a brand new song every month, along with an accompanying demo or previously unreleased recording from our archives. Most recently, in October 2019, Fastball returned with The Help Machine, an album produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, and in Sept 2021 and thruout 2022 have been releasing music exclusively thru Patreon.We recorded some new songs this summer and wanted to try releasing them in a different way than we have been, so we've decided to launch a Patreon campaign. The following year, Fastball celebrated the 20th anniversary of All the Pain Money Can Buy with an expanded edition of the 1998 album they accompanied the reissue with a hometown concert in Austin, Texas. The project emerged in May 2017, a self-released album titled Step into Light, and the band supported it with an extensive tour of the United States and Canada. That collaborative spirit helped fuel another album, Little White Lies, which appeared in 2009 to warm reviews.Īfter several years of focusing on live work, Fastball returned to the studio in 2015, recording in their hometown of Austin. The album strengthened Fastball’s work ethic, with frontmen Zuniga and Scalzo writing together for the first time. Two years later, they resurfaced with Keep Your Wig On, having fully embraced their power pop roots with the help of co-producer Adam Schlesinger. A retrospective compilation, Painting the Corners: The Best of Fastball, marked the band’s final release for Hollywood Records in 2002. The Harsh Light of Day arrived in fall 2000, featuring piano work by Billy Preston and an increasingly arty sound, including the Top 40 hit “You’re an Ocean.” Fastball eventually left the Hollywood roster in favor of a new deal with Rykodisc. Fastball celebrated their success with a considerable amount of touring, including shows alongside Marcy Playground and Everclear. “Fire Escape” and the piano-fueled “Out of My Head” did similarly well, and All the Pain Money Can Buy went platinum within six months of its release, earning two Grammy nominations along the way. Although the bandmates were still working side jobs at the time of its release, lead-off single “The Way” proved to be a meteoric hit, topping the American rock charts for seven weeks while enjoying crossover success as a pop single. The follow-up effort, All the Pain Money Can Buy, appeared in early 1998, featuring a considerably tighter band and more pop flourishes. The album demonstrated the band’s synthesis of modern flavor and bygone pop hooks, a combination that would later launch Fastball into the mainstream. After signing with Hollywood Records, the musicians changed their name to Fastball and released their debut album, Make Your Mama Proud, in 1996. Guitarist/vocalist Miles Zuniga, bassist/vocalist Tony Scalzo, and drummer Joey Shuffield - all veterans of Austin’s underground rock scene - originally banded together under the name Magneto U.S.A.

Formed in 1994 in Austin, Texas, Fastball combined a fondness for melodic, Beatles-inspired pop with the alternative aesthetic of late-’90s mainstream rock.

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