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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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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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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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As a society we have to ask ourselves: what are we feeding our children? This is not intended to be a discussion about mechanically separated chicken or high-fructose corn syrup. No, another kind of food: music. It is, after all, the singular most powerful expression of the human soul.

Yet, in today’s consumer-based capitalistic society, music has been sterilized, homogenized, desensitized and, worst of all, commoditized into an entity designed not to enrich the listeners but to make rich the purveyors.

If this sounds highfalutin, then you weren’t at the Tacoma Dome on Wednesday night because this concert was the epitome of what is wrong in music today.

Exhibit 1: Cobra Starship, a band whose claim to fame is the song “Bring It (Snakes on a Plane.)” Yes, from the cheesy action-packed flop of a film starring Sam Jackson. Dear reader, the only thing worse than a stupid song is a song that makes you stupid. For this, Cobra Starship is guilty and should be ejected from Starship Earth.

Exhibit 2: The Academy Is …, a band that thankfully had its name emblazoned on a giant banner, otherwise their power pop, bubblegum rock would not have been identifiable from the 237 other bands that have this exact same sound. Generic? Guilty! Driven by gimmicks and cheesy clichés? Guilty! Send the Academy to the gallows!

Exhibit 3: +44, the band former Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker formed when Blink went on indefinite hiatus. These are not punk preservationists or even revisionists. No, +44 is simply thieves with guitars who would rather count their money than write an original, that is to say fresh, song. This L.A. band romps through power chord after power chord while Hoppus sings sensitive, surefire lines like, “Baby come on.” The best part of this band is the banter, “(guitarist) Shane Gallagher likes to cut his hair like Britney Spears.” (He’s bald. Har-har.)

Now, the exception to the rule and perhaps our hope for the future: Fall Out Boy, the emissaries of emo who wittingly nabbed their moniker from the Simpsons. (Fall Out Boy was Radioactive Man’s sidekick.) This Chicago four-piece added all kinds of lights, flames, streamers and explosions to a show that could have been just as successful without the hoopla. The reason: The songs are well-crafted, interesting and exciting compositions, topped with ample wit, humor and irony. In other words, the music could stand alone.

“This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” is a perfect example. This infectious concoction is also a stirring anthem; played live or on the radio, it changes the room; it demands fist pumping and shouting; it gets blood flowing.

The same could be said of “One & Only,” a song from “Timbaland Presents Shock Value” that supposedly features Fall Out Boy, but the way FOB plays it, the song its own. To make it even better, bassist Pete Wentz and guitarist Joe Trohman snuck out to the sound stage to play the song while standing on top of a Honda. Of course, the young girls went crazy, sending high-pitched shrieks into the ears of whatever journalist happened to be standing nearby.

It was more than these two hits. FOB played a full set of rip-roaring rock ‘n’ roll (”Sugar We’re Goin’ Down,” “The Carpal Tunnel of Love,” “Thnks fr th Mmrs,” to name some high points) that breathed new life into the genre. They even reconstituted Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.” That’s food for the soul.

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The hottest party of the night Friday, June 22, had to be at Axis/Radius nightclub in Old Town Scottsdale. That’s because Fall Out Boy’s undeclared spokesman and notorious ruckus-causer bassist, Pete Wentz, took care of the ones and twos for a DJ set at the club.

Wentz came to the venue after his band’s concert at Cricket Pavilion, where the pop-punk outfit headlined the Honda Civic Tour.

Wentz ditched his ever-present hoodie for a more hipster look while he DJed, wearing a gray vest over a black T-shirt and sporting a black baseball cap.

His Fall Out Boy set ended at about 10:45 p.m., and he arrived at the club looking spiffy a little after midnight. For an hour and a half, the music was under Wentz’s control, as he played a banging mix of oldies and new hits.

Wentz kept the music pretty pure, opting to play about one-and-a-half minute segments of songs without much alteration to the beats.

His talent lied in the sequence of the songs, as he transitioned between contemporary artists like Gwen Stefani and Nelly Furtado and older hits by Michael Jackson and Bon Jovi. The songs flowed well because beats matched up in unique ways, and Wentz’s selection was very impressive.

Axis/Radius is usually known for having more present-day hip-hop and pop hits, but the packed dance floor and just-as-congested upstairs embraced the older songs by Journey and even Nirvana.

Wentz brought an energy that just made everything work, and people sang along and threw their hands up throughout the set.

While there were a couple of emo-looking girls in the crowd showing off their tattoos and Hot Topic garb, and fans clamoring near the DJ booth snapping pictures, most of the clubgoers looked like typical Axis/Radius fare, dressed up trendily.

It seemed like most clubbers were unaware of who Wentz was - let alone that he was DJing there - possibly because many Fall Out Boy fans are underage.

Wentz didn’t talk to any of the fans; he just focused on his music, staring at his computer, listening in his earphones and singing along to the songs he chose.

His friend Gabe Saporta, lead singer of Fall Out Boy opener Cobra Starship, was another story, though. Saporta danced with and hugged plenty of fans, plus he posed for several pictures. He also hyped up the crowd by wildly throwing his hands up during every song and singing along.

Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley was also spotted sitting down at a VIP table on the floor near the DJ booth. His table was left alone for the most part.

Axis/Radius was probably a great place for Wentz to DJ considering he wasn’t bothered and got to focus on his music, which the crowd seemed to eat up.

Fall Out Boy should be back on the road this fall, so Wentz may be back in a Valley booth soon.

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Rage Against the Machine and the Smashing Pumpkins are among the acts set to headline this year’s Voodoo Music Experience.

Other featured acts include Wilco, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Sinead O’Connor, Fall Out Boy, Mute Math, Plain White T’s and The Black Crowes.

The three-day festival at City Park opens Oct. 26.

Some 90,000 fans attended last fall’s festival, headlined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Duran Duran. That turnout prompted organizers to expand the event from two days to three. The festival also ran three days in 2003.

Steve Rehage, whose company, Rehage Entertainment Inc., produces the Voodoo Music Experience, said he’s proud of the lineup. It’s one he hopes “demands national attention and makes people think, `Wow, cool things still happen in New Orleans. Let’s go.’”

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Great line-up for Voodoo this year, and Fall Out Boy just makes it better. Anyone going? For some more information, check out Voodoo Music Experience on the web.

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“So to avoid any confusion- we made a new video for our song “the take over…”. it is a low budget video that we made just to tide everyone over until we get the next one done. its pretty much just an internet video. pretty simple. hopefully you like it. the idea behind it is pretty much the perception we all have of ourselves versus the perception the world has of us…. maybe its a bit more dimwitted as it involves a puppy’s perspective too. check out the link over at absolutepunk.net or www.friendsorenemies.com - we’ll be working on the next big video in july.

for what its worth. this video is just supposed to be fun, so dont read too much into it. we came up with it on the spot.”

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Fall Out Boy sure can pump out some videos, there’s no doubt about that. Other bands I’ve followed take long breaks between making music videos. Ahh, another reason to enjoy FOB.

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Fall Out Boy singer Peter Wentz has explained away a fight that he had with a fan at a recent aftershow party.

The musician denied claims that he had started the fight with a heckler, saying that the man grabbed his arm first.

He said that he had no regrets over how he had acted, saying that it would always be his instinct to defend himself in that situation.

Wentz told MTV: “The story on the internet is absolutely false. Yes, we were playing an acoustic afterparty. It was a good time for the most part. Yes, the guy was heckling me and the band, so were other people, most in good fun. But we get heckled onstage all the time, and while I’m a jerk, I’m not the kind of person who would ever lash out at someone simply over this.

“The truth is on the way out the door I had to pass directly next to the guy and I knew it, so I kept my head down and walked out. As I did, the guy reached out and grabbed me and said something I couldn’t really hear — it was a glorious use of the English language, though.

“As he grabbed me, I punched him. Yell all you want at me, say whatever, but in a situation like that I will defend myself. After that, of course, it got chaotic, [but] we have several independent witnesses that gave statements saying he grabbed me first … I am not worried over the outcome, as I was clearly in the right. Anything anyone else is saying or writing is simply not true.”

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Fall Out Boy’s show at Chicago’s Schubas reportedly turned bloody when bassist Pete Wentz and a member of Fall Out Boy’s security detail were involved in a fracas with a heckling fan. According to audience members at the show, the band made it through four songs, including their single “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race” before the band left the stage and a scuffle broke out. An audience member who prefers to remain anonymous was standing right in front of Wentz during the show and described the main heckler as a “250 lb. meathead-looking guy.” According to the source, Wentz got into a fight with the heckler after the band left the stage. “When the crowd parted, you could see [Wentz] on the floor face down,” she recalls. “Then his body guard grabbed him and hustled him out the door.”

Another witness said she saw Wentz bodyguard punch the heckler. “I could see the band’s bodyguard because he’s huge,” said the anonymous source. “We saw him punch [the heckler] – it was like a movie.” After the crowd cleared, audience members saw the heckler lying on the ground with his shirt ripped open and his head gushing blood.

The show, an acoustic performance at the 200-capacity Schubas, followed a FOB show earlier in the evening at the Charter One Pavilion, a Chicago-area ampitheater. After the venue made an announcement indicating the show was officially over, the cops showed up to interview witnesses and control the crowd. View the video.

And on that note, there’s a little something more I found from Chicagoist. They also provided the lovely bloody photo you see above.

“From what we could see, Pete decided to have a “word” with a heckler who teased him about his relationship with Ashlee Simpson on his way out, and the sh*t (and a well-aimed beer bottle) then promptly hit the ‘fan.’ It wasn’t immediately clear what Wentz down, but we caught a glimpse of Pete on the floor with the other dude on top of him. To the venue’s credit, they hustled us out of there and were ready and waiting when the cops arrived.”

So there you have it. This isn’t the first time Pete has lost his temper, and it very well may not be the last. We only hope that he’ll gain some control and become a little less sensitive about his love life. Perhaps one day this blog’s news can be less about the beloved dramatic bassist and more about the band.

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First of all, Fall Out Boy should be on the VSpot Countdown.

Fall Out Boy will be one of the featured artists this weekend on VH1’s Vspot countdown!
It premieres Saturday June 16th at 9am and will replay on Sunday June 17th at 8am and Tuesday June 19th at 9am!

Next, they are also going to appear on the Today Show. They are to be performing a live set in New York City on Friday July 6th. Fans should go to Rockefeller Plaza for the performance, please get there before 7:00 am as space is extremely limited and viewing is on the first come, first-served basis outside of The Today Show’s NBC studio.

The studio is located at 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. If you can’t make it to the performance, tune into The Today Show on NBC at 8:30 am.

Finally, there is a new tour video. It’s set to Thriller and it’s (obviously) promoting the Honda Civic Tour. You can find it here.

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You may have heard the rumors claiming that Pete Wentz would be working with his girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson, on her upcoming album. Well folks, that is just not true.

Pete Wentz himself took time away from the Honda Civic Tour just to clear up such rumors. Unfortunately for Wentz and the reputation of his band, this is not the first time he’s had to do this. The man is a drama magnet.

“That’s pretty much the silliest recent rumor I have read,” Wentz told MTV News in an e-mail. “Mostly [because] I want no part in selling a relationship. I mean, it is not true. She hasn’t really played me any of [her album]. I heard part of a demo that I liked, though.

I mean, reports getting out are a bummer when they are absolutely not true. But at the same time you have to understand that this is part of the territory.”

Frankly, the territory he is referring to became his own ever since the incident of exposing himself naked back in March, 2006, which of course, leaked onto the internet and spread like wildfire (see “Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz Comments On … You Know, Those Photos”). And naturally, things only seemed to get more out of control when he picked up a celebrity girlfriend to call his own (see “Pete Wentz’s Bar Draws Jay-Z, Ashlee”). It doesn’t matter what day it is or what Pete is doing, you can always find new gossip sprouting up all over the web. It isn’t necessarily something that’s always been asked for or stopped, but Pete has seemed to move on from feeling ridiculous about it to finding it all hilarious.

“I don’t care much what people say about me, but I do care how it affects the rest of my band,” Wentz wrote. “I guess I’m just happy with aspects of my life that I haven’t been [happy with] in years, and I don’t feel like I should feel guilty for that. Sometimes, the rumors are laughable though.” Source.

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