Fall Out Boy

There’s a lot of hype surrounding Fall Out Boy. There hasn’t always been, but that’s certainly the way things are now. All the fancy words and complicated explanations to clear a name that was swiped from the Simpsons to begin with. The Simpsons know they’re messed up, and they own it. I just wanted to take a break from all of the Pete-sanity and broken hearts and guyliner to remind you all of this wonderful band’s roots. It’s more for fun than anything, but I’m posting some older videos. Watch them, compare if you want, but remember how much we adore these boys regardless.

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There’s a new journal entry on Fall Out Boy’s site. Check it out:

“so many updates. the end of HCT was hard. on tour it becomes like summer camp, you get used to seeing the same faces over and over again.

since then we have still been going non-stop. thanks to everyone who came out to the Today show! nbc said that we broke records with the amount of fans who showed up… pretty insane. then playing live earth was another mindblowing experience- to see all of these people coming together for music and belief all at once gave me chills. we got to hang with some good people like kanye west and john mayer- id recommend both of them as people and artists. i dont know how to explain but it is thrilling to be in the presence of people you know will end up changing culture.

the photos and video dont do the mood of this concert justice. it may not be monterey pop but this was something larger than the sum of its parts. it makes me want to make change in my daily life. thanks for taking part.

off to the lab to work on some new ideas. patrick is making music, producing some new bands. joe is getting his house ready for cribs and andy is busy doing whatever sexy vegetarians do.

this fall we will be playing shows with gym class heroes and the plain white t’s- before then we will be warming up in europe with a few days Decaydance fest— including us panic at the disco, gym class heroes, the academy is and cobra starship. should be a fun family reunion.

“have fun storming the castle” im gonna miss mark saying this to us every night… ”

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One of the many bands that passed through the Live Earth stages around the world Saturday put it best.

“It’s not really important what goes on here tonight, but what happens in the future,” said Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy, who appeared in the New York concert.

For many who participated - as performers or spectators at the massive global music event - it was an inspiring night, perhaps the biggest concert broadcast in history, all dedicated to confronting what organizer Al Gore has called “the greatest threat mankind has ever faced.”

Saturday’s musicians were committed to changing that dynamic, but entertainers as a group have a spotty track record in forcing the body politic into change. Just look at the results of recent US presidential elections, where the entertainment business came down firmly on the side of the centre-left Democrats in 2004, only for George Bush to win a majority.

But Live Earth could be different.

The campaign to raise awareness about the dangers and causes of global warming has already gathered significant momentum. Only the most committed ideologues still dispute scientific evidence pointing to human activity as the cause of the climate threat, and children the world over re as focused on the environment as their parents were on the space race.

The sights and sounds of well-known personalities lending their voices to the cause may embolden people to take the actions demanded by the seven-point pledge offered up from organizers for all participants to sign.

“I think it’s cool that so many people are coming together to support this,” said Ellen Sanchez, 14, who watched the concerts at a big screen erected for the occasion in San Francisco. “It definitely focuses attention on the problem. We can’t ignore it any longer.”

Others already see the mega-gig as just the latest round of unwanted celebrity preaching.

That was certainly the attitude of critics who called Live Earth ”concerts for guilty stars.” They pointed out that many performances had flown to the shows in private jets, and asked how the massive productions with their huge carbon footprints could really benefit the cause. ‘All are guilty’

Perhaps the answer was at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, where some 700,000 people attended a free concert where actress and kid’s show host Xuxa framed the issue: “We are all guilty. We waste paper, water, energy and many other things. … It is not just for Americans. This is a concert for the whole world.”

Or maybe it was in the Netherlands, where thousands gathered by bicycle in an Amsterdam square to watch the shows being broadcast from other countries and hear ideas about how to save energy.

Africa, the underdeveloped continent with the least global-warming emissions but some of the worst potential effects, hosted a concert in Johannesburg. And the Shanghai concert carried great symbolism, as China continues to boom its way toward becoming one of the world’s biggest polluters.

The concerts certainly raised environmental awareness to a new level. Seen by a projected 2 billion people, the concerts featured environmental messages flashing behind the stages. Commercial breaks were filled with infomercials about the cause.

But the greatest benefit could come from the seven-point pledge organizers asked people to sign to limit their own pollution. The pledge calls on governments to sign meaningful treaties to reduce carbon emissions by 90 per cent by the year 2050, and to enact strict limits on coal-burning power stations.

“I’m so proud to be a part of it today, because it’s not about the problem. It’s more about the solution,” said songstress Alicia Keys at the New York show. “So I want you to make that pledge. I’m making the pledge, and I want you to make that pledge right now.”

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I found an article on About.com listing and reviewing the top ten pop albums of 2007. It stated the following:

Halfway through the year is a good time to reflect on what we’ve seen in pop music so far. These are the 10 best pop albums of the first half of 2007.

In the number one spot? Fall Out Boy. Here’s the review for FOB and Infinity on High:

This is Fall Out Boy’s first truly great album, and it is a landmark in the evolution of punk-influenced pop music. Taking its title from a Van Gogh letter written at a moment of emotional ecstasy, one can’t help but wonder if this is something like the statement the Ramones or Nirvana could have delivered absent the devastating impact of drug and alcohol addictions and with the wind of true support at their backs. Only a band with a tremendous sense of confidence can deliver words like this:

“And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies
And all the lovers with no time for me”

Fall Out Boy Fans - You Know Who You Are

If you are part of Fall Out Boy’s intended core audience, you likely know who you are. In case you’ve been hiding out over the past year and don’t know, Pete Wentz spells it out for you in “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race”:

“All the boys who the dance floor didn’t love
And all the girls whose lips couldn’t move fast enough”

You’ve been the target of great rock music in the past, but where Kurt Cobain and Robert Smith wanted you to crawl inside and share their pain and cynicism about the world, Fall Out Boy on Infinity on High want you to dance and sing and celebrate that the world belongs to you, too.

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Fall Out Boy makes some quick cameo appearances in The Academy Is… new video, “Neighbors“! I posted the video below, courtesy of our friends at YouTube. Enjoy!

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There’s really only one contender for SOTW this week. Interpol are back, with “The Heinrich Maneuver”. Anybody who thought this band might be running out of creative steam after two albums has been proved emphatically wrong by this dark, brooding monster of a single. Shadowy lyricism? Check. Urgent, paranoid, edgy backdrop? Check. It’s a vicious, caustic three minutes, an anticipation-cranking taster for forthcoming album “Our Love To Admire”, which is set to be one of the records of the year. I can’t wait.

The pick of the rest of this week’s releases…

As you’ll no doubt know, the once legendary Smashing Pumpkins recently reformed. On “Tarantula”, Billy Corgan’s vocals are as whiney as ever, but the music over which he sings them has somehow transformed into a vicious, fiery, guitar-driven squall with solo’s aplenty. It sounds like Brian May and Robert Page dueling desperately in a “who can be the most self-indulgent axe hero” contest.

One comeback we were all hoping wouldn’t happen is that of Canadian angst-merchant Avril Lavigne. “When You’re Gone” opens with a couple of fairly promising bars of tinkling piano; it’s not long, though, before the plodding four-four beat kicks in and the song turns into the kind of mid-paced, soft rock effort you might have expected from somebody like Jennifer Rush half-way thorugh the Eighties. She may be trying to give herself more gravitas by shaking off the “Sk8r Boi” image, but this is merely exchanging extreme irritation for intense boredom.

New Young Pony Club, “Ice Cream”. Vague elements of punk-funk permeate this slow, lazily cool slice of sultriness. The bassline pulses like a heartbeat, the guitars stab gracefully somewhere low down in the mix, and some shimmering synths add atmosphere to the whole like chrome shimmering in the twilight. It’s alluring, pulse-quickening stuff.

Summer’s here, though it doesn’t really feel like it, and that means it’s time for a beautifully rendered indie-pop single from Swedish harmony purveyors The Concretes. Could “Oh Boy” be that single? I think so. It’s as sugary as the Magic Numbers, but it doesn’t make you feel sick; it’s as catchy as Kylie, and it makes you wanna dance.

Meanwhile, Fall Out Boy drop “The Take Over The Breaks Over“. It’s not the very worst thing the band have ever released; fizzy and energetic and not quite as overtly teen-angst as their previous stuff. It still falls a long way short of making you want to listen to it more than once though. Source.

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Drummer Andy Hurley had been in many hardcore bands with bassist Pete Wentz before they formed Fall Out Boy. Basically, they both just wanted a change of scenery.
“We just got burned out with the heaviness and the negative energies of the hardcore scene,” Hurley said by phone from Atlanta. “We wanted to do something different.”
So they teamed up with lead guitarist Joe Trohman and rhythm guitarist/vocalist Patrick Stump and named the new band Fall Out Boy, after a sidekick character on “The Simpsons.”
“The music we play now is so different than what we did in the past,” said Hurley, who cited Metallica and Slayer as his major musical influences. “The focus has always been on the music. And it still is.”
In 2002, the band released its first CD, “Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out with Your Girlfriend,” on Uprising Records. Three years later, the label reissued the CD to coincide with the band’s major-label debut on Island Records, “From Under the Cork Tree.”
In between, Fall Out Boy recorded and released “Take This to Your Grave” for the Fueled By Ramen label.
“Take This to Your Grave” sold more than 500,000 copies, pushing the disc to Gold Record status. “From Under the Cork Tree” sold more than 3 million copies. And the band’s most recent album, “Infinity on High,” released earlier this year, has already sold 1 million copies and became the No. 1 album on Billboard’s 200. Today it sits strongly at No. 31.
“It always surprises us at the success of our albums,” said Hurley. “We don’t write the songs thinking they’re going to be successful. And when they get noticed, it’s always a good thing for us.”
Recording “Infinity on High” was not much different than the studio sessions for “From Under the Cork Tree,” said Hurley. “We had the whole album ready to record, but like we did on ‘Cork Tree,’ we scrapped half the songs and wrote new ones in the studio.
“So it’s safe to say that half the songs are newer than the other half. In fact, the song ‘Golden’ wasn’t among the original songs we had ready for recording.”
But preparing to record “Infinity on High” was far from a nerve-wracking process, said Hurley. “We don’t worry about following up success. ‘Cork Tree’ did well way beyond our expectations, but we didn’t worry whether or not ‘Infinity’ would do better. We just did what we felt was right.
“‘Infinity’ is our second major-label full-length album and, in reality, we have more than just two CDs. So we’re pretty comfortable with the process. We just look at a new CD as a welcome accomplishment.”
In the past couple of years, Fall Out Boy has earned an array of music awards — MuchMusic People’s Choice Video Award for Favorite International Group, a bunch of Kerrang! Awards, a load of Teen Choice Awards, a Grammy nomination and two MTV Music Video Awards.
“The awards are great because most of them are voted on by fans,” said Hurley. “It’s nice to be recognized by your fans. And I don’t want to take anything away from them, but I do think that bands can get caught up in the awards and forget everything else. I don’t go around thinking how cool I am because we got this or that award. Because the awards are nice recognitions and add to the career, but in reality, the music is why we’re doing what we’re doing.”
Hurley isn’t kidding. Fall Out Boy is always either on the road or recording music. There has been very little time off. “We are thinking to take a longer break after we finish touring this album. But after the American tour, we’re going to South Africa, the Philippines and a bunch of Southeast Asian countries. Then we’re coming back and doing more dates in the states, and then taking our break.
“But Pat has been writing songs here and there and he already has 10 or 12 songs ready to go. I can already see that once the break starts, we’re going to get antsy and want to record the new songs. And, we’ll probably scrap half of them.” Source.

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New York Fashion Week’s hottest ticket, Fashion Rocks™, returns for its fourth year to the legendary Radio City Music Hall on September 6, 2007. Music’s A-list performers and the world’s hottest fashions will once again share the stage in a star-studded extravaganza celebrating the relationship between fashion and music. The concert will air the following night, Friday, September 7, 2007 in a two-hour special on the CBS television network (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT).

The show, hosted by Entourage star Jeremy Piven, will feature performances by Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, Fall Out Boy, Fergie, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Ludacris, Martina McBride, Santana and Usher.

“The synergy between fashion and music is even more pronounced now than it was when we first created Fashion Rocks™ three years ago, said Condé Nast Media Group president, Richard D. Beckman. “Each year the line between the two becomes increasingly blurred as more musicians launch fashion lines and more designers align themselves with musicians. Fashion Rocks™ 2007 will feature outstanding performers from both worlds who span the spectrum of musical genres and fashion styles and bring to life that special relationship.”

The Fashion Rocks™ magazine will also return this year. Slated to reach over 60 million readers and filled with even more editorial content, Fashion Rocks™ magazine will accompany the September issue of 17 Condé Nast titles. Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and Contributing Editor Jonathan Van Meter will again take the helm as editorial director and editor-in-chief, respectively.

New to the scene is OBO, an international fashion production company. OBO will be producing the highly anticipated fashion segments that appear throughout the concert.

OBO most recently produced the 2007 Victoria’s Secret fashion show, as well as shows for Zegna, Marchesa, Tommy Hilfiger, Chloé and Behnaz Sarafpour, among others.

Executive producers of Fashion Rocks™ are Anthony Eaton, executive director and president of Tall Pony Productions and Richard D. Beckman, president of Condé Nast Media Group and Kingdom Entertainment. Mr. Eaton is an award-winning video producer whose roster of accolades includes GRAMMY® Awards, Cable Aces and NAACP Awards. His work has also received numerous film festival honors.

Fashion Rocks™ is sponsored by five key advertisers: Chevrolet, Citi, Revlon, Dillard’s, and Nexxus.
Fashion Rocks™ is a production of Condé Nast Media Group, a unit of Condé Nast Publications which includes corporate sales, marketing, interactive and direct sales efforts for all of Condé Nast’s consumer magazines and websites. Condé Nast Media Group is recognized as an industry leader for its creation and execution of large-scale, integrated, multi-platform advertising programs and events.

Fans looking for more information on Fashion Rocks can log onto fashionrocks2007.tv

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