Ben Folds Five

During the late 1990s, Ben Folds Five was as omnipresent as any act in popular music. And it wasn’t just that the Chapel Hill piano-pop trio was successful, with a platinum album (1997’s “Whatever and Ever Amen”) and radio hit, “Brick.” It was that they were working almost constantly, spending every waking moment in a nonstop grind of touring and recording.

Citing burnout, the trio of Folds, bassist Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee disbanded in 2000. They’ve regrouped sporadically in the years since,… Show more playing a spine-tinglingly awesome 2008 reunion show in Chapel Hill and recording three new songs for a 2011 retrospective. And now, a dozen years past the breakup, Ben Folds Five has become a fulltime band again, at least for a while.

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