Fall Out Boy face the music (+pics)
By CLIO FRANCIS



Rock band Fall Out Boy fronted up to some hard questions at their New Zealand press conference this afternoon - but it wasn’t the media doing all the screaming and shouting.

The American act - who perform at Auckland's Vector Arena tonight - were greeted by a frenzied roar when they arrived at the Parnell College school gym for a question-and-answer session run by the students.

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When Fall Out Boy Met President Barack Obama …
Published by James Montgomery on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 12:13 pm.


Fall Out Boy spent inauguration day scaling trees and performing alongside Kanye West and Kid Rock at President Obama’s Youth Ball, but out of 24 very hectic hours, there are three minutes that definitely stand out from the rest: when they got to meet Obama himself.

Even if they don’t exactly remember how the whole thing went down.

“We literally found out we were going to meet him, like, a couple [of minutes beforehand],” FOB frontman Patrick Stump laughed. “A lady walks into the room and was like, ‘We’re leaving right now. … You’re meeting the president. It was like we had no time to prepare, no time to anything. … You just walk up, and they were like, ‘You gotta go now,’ and they shove us against the wall and then in comes the president. It was amazing.”

It sounds slightly terrifying, but the guys in FOB said it was probably the highlight of their career. After all, it’s not every day you get to shake hands with the most powerful man in the world, who turns out to be a pretty nice guy.

“It was fantastic,” guitarist Joe Trohman said. “He came out on my right-hand side. All of a sudden, he’s there in my face and said, ‘Oh, what’s your name?’ and I almost just went, ‘Uh, Obama?’ I freaked out and didn’t know what to say. But he was so nice and cool. Just the fact that he and Michelle came up and were like, ‘What’s your name? It’s really nice to meet you.’ It was so cool.”

So what exactly did the guys in FOB say to the commander in chief during their brief meeting? Did they perhaps try to sneak in some quick lobbying? Or maybe slip him a copy of Folie à Deux? Turns out, they just kept it simple.

“I just made sure to call him ‘president’ a lot. I’m sure he wants to hear that more now,” Trohman laughed.

“Yeah, he’s got to get used to hearing it,” Stump added.

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Fall Out Boy: From then ’til now
By Megan Vick
★★★½

You dread when you hear it on the radio because you know it is going to be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Yet when the first riffs mixed with syncopated drum beats hit your speakers and you start asking yourself, “Am I more than you bargained for yet?” rather than changing the dial, you know you’re stuck already and every few minutes until you sleep that night will be a chorus of Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, We’re Going Down.”

Despite how you might feel about Fall Out Boy, there is no denying they have a tendency to be infectious. Now their fourth album, “Folie A Deux,” is out in stores and the first just-as-catchy single “I Don’t Care” has already hit the airwaves. Whether this latest record will go down in history as the biggest sell out of the generation or punk-emo martyrs for the masses has yet to be determined, but try and find someone who doesn’t know the words to one of their songs. Just try.

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Fall Out Boy Bury Beef With Blender Magazine
'This whole thing is stupid,' frontman Patrick Stump writes about clamor over mag's FOB cover story.
By James Montgomery


Hey, remember that Blender cover story that got Fall Out Boy all hot-and-bothered earlier this week? You know, the one drummer Andy Hurley called "sensationalist" and "pure bullsh--"? Well, it turns out that it's not really that big of a deal anymore!

So say Fall Out Boy themselves, who took to the blogosphere in the days following MTV News' initial report on the incident to let their fans know that they've buried the hatchet with the magazine.

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Fall Out Boy Fall Out With Blender Magazine Over 'Sensationalist' Cover Story
'We stand by our reporting,' magazine responds.
By James Montgomery


Fall Out Boy are quite happy to be the cover stars of the February issue of Blender magazine. The article that accompanies that cover? Well, let's just say they have a slightly different opinion of that.

"The Blender article is pure bullsh--," FOB drummer Andy Hurley wrote on his Twitter account late Tuesday. "It's sensationalist bullsh-- made up to sell a story. It's [full of] out-of-context quotes."

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Fall Out Boy: Babies, Breakups, Bromances!
Pete Wentz is a compulsive attention seeker in a way that makes him a perfect rock star and completely annoying. That's why, as he was gaining a wife and son, he almost lost his band.
Josh Eells
Blender January 05 2009


It’s not every day you get to watch a rock star pee.

Fall Out Boy are in Philadelphia, the second stop on a back-to-basics club tour to promote their new album. They drove down from Boston this morning in a rented Dodge minivan and are currently lounging in the makeshift dressing room of a North Philly dive bar, across the street from Floyd & Diann’s Tire Service. A camera crew from Fuse is here, and a gaggle of pubescent girls awaits a meet-and-greet just outside the door. And over in the corner, Pete Wentz is unzipping his pants.

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Too Much Of a Good Thing? Nah!
Fall Out Boy Royally Rocks Rejects' 'World'


All albums by Fall Out Boy are about Fall Out Boy, more or less -- adrenalized, super-size riffs on their evidently complicated lives. Fall Out Boy can do anything, and they usually do, sometimes all at once. Their terrific, frenetic, inevitably self-referential new disc, "Folie à Deux," epitomizes their everything-all-the-time approach to record making. It's got strings; horns; disco beats; electro beats; organs; a vaguely bored Lil Wayne (noblesse obliging, but still, he's there); what sounds like a double-bass; and Elvis Costello, who shows up on the great "What a Catch, Donnie," singing a solo refrain from the earlier "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet," because, why wouldn't he?

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All Joking Aside
Dec 12 2008 By Rick Fulton

Fall Out Boy Say It's Time For Their Music To Get Serious The Big Razz Interview Exclusive

FALL Out Boy admit they are music's whipping boys - the band people love to hate.

But bassist and frontman Pete Wentz doesn't care that some people see his Chicago-born band as a joke.

He has long shrugged off the laughter and, instead, insists he does it for the fans.

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Fall Out Boy Ready To Get Back To Work After The Birth Of Pete Wentz's Baby
'Pete just had a kid, so we've been taking a bit of a breather,' frontman Patrick Stump tells MTV News.
By James Montgomery


When MTV News sat down with Fall Out Boy on Monday in Los Angeles, there was obviously one topic we were itching to discuss — you know, the arrival of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson's brand-new baby boy, Bronx Mowgli. There was only one problem: We were told we couldn't ask Pete about it.

So, instead, we decided to be crafty and ask the guys how they're dealing with their time off. After all, their Folie à Deux album has been pushed back to December 16, and Wentz just became a new pop, so, for the moment at least, the FOB schedule has been pretty clear.

Of course, frontman Patrick Stump, being the good guy he is, obliged us — and even managed to make mention of Mowgli too (that's what we in the industry call "a win").

"Obviously, elephant in the room, Pete just had a kid, so we've been taking a bit of a breather — more so than we normally would. I think an FOB breather is still a lot busier than anybody else's," he laughed. "We've done some surprise shows, because — we've all talked about it — whenever you promise kids an album, and then you push it back, whatever reason, however idealistic, you still feel like you're letting them down a bit.

"So we've gone out and done some surprise shows in really small clubs. And it's been pretty cool, because we haven't been playing a lot of the new material, so we're getting that out there before we start performing the new stuff," Stump continued. "That's kind of been our main thing right now, you know? Obviously, it's more important than anything happening at home."

We're assuming that schedule will be getting a bit, well, fatter in the coming weeks. Because, as it stands right now, Fall Out Boy only have a handful of U.S. shows scheduled around Folie's release, and then they'll head to Japan and Australia in early '09. Their only scheduled gig after that is a May headlining slot at the Bamboozle Festival alongside No Doubt.

And it appears that young Bronx will be joining FOB on the road, too. At least, that's according to Wentz, who talked at length about his new son on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday morning (November 25). Wentz called Bronx's birth "pretty surreal" and said that "right before [Ashlee] went into labor, I was like ,'Oh my God, I think I'm having a heart attack!' "

"Natural things start going on in your body," he told Seacrest. "My heart started beating really fast."

Wentz also explained his son's rather, um, unique name, saying that they took part of it from "The Jungle Book" because it "is something that me and Ashlee bonded over."

"We'd been throwing it back and forth awhile ago. I feel weird, because all these people have all these ideas on what it means," Wentz said. "I don't think anyone knows the real story of why or how."


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