There’s a song on the Austin-based Fastball’s seventh studio album, The Help Machine (33 1/3 Records) called “The Girl You Pretended To Be.” Written by singer ...

Fastball today, keeping in times with tech: Joey Shuffield, an unidentified friend, Miles Zuniga, and Tony Scalzo Credit: Photo by Sandra Dahdah/Courtesy of FastballTheBand.com The members of Fastball ...

Yes, Fastball is going to play “The Way” when it’s tour hits the North Charleston Coliseum on June 6. After all, it is kicking off a show that’s bathing in late ’90s/early ’00s nostalgia in the Last ...

When Austin, Texas trio Fastball released “The Way,” the first single from their second album, 1998’s All the Pain Money Can Buy, they hoped it would be successful. And it was. “The Way” claimed the ...

After 40 years of guitar jangle and sinfully sweet harmonies, you’d think the power-pop genre would be fully played out by now. And you’d be right. So let’s admit from the outset that Fastball doesn’t ...

Best known for I sing and play in Fastball. More people know our music than know our faces. Our songs from the 1990s “The Way,” “Fire Escape,” and “Out of My Head,” still get played on radio, TV, and ...

Airline noise, that’s the first striking aspect of the music video for Fastball’s “Hummingbird.” A carefree blond woman decked in white – white blouse, white bell-bottoms, white roller skates. It’s as ...

As a child in the fifth grade attending a Catholic school in Laredo, Texas, Miles Zuniga recalls having to stand with a group of his classmates and sing songs in front of church during a Friday ...

Welcome to Daytrotter Always and Never Angelie Soul Radio The Malcontent It must be relatively simple to get disconnected from many of the realities associated with the way things work, the way that ...

Bands form. Bands break up. And then there’s Fastball and the Deathray Davies, two Texas groups that began during the Clinton administration and are still going strong. Fastball, the Austin trio that ...