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 ...

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 ...

When I first started typing about Fastball’s appearance here this weekend, I used the word “reunion,” which would have been a mistake. The Austin-based trio of singer/guitarist Miles Zuniga, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you guys have any idea that you were suddenly going to become poster children for unpaid PledgeMusic artists? No! We didn’t know until it came out [on Tuesday]. The whole thing came as a total ...