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Fall Out Boy Crash Rolling Stone Holiday Party in New York
December 19, 2008 1:32 PM

A swathe of Rolling Stone staffers and special guests descended on downtown's Bowery Electric for an evening of drinking, dancing and of course holiday spirit at the magazine’s annual seasonal bash earlier this week. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), no clothes were shed or awesomely bad decisions made – at least not in public view – (thanks to Svedka for the plentiful vodka), but we did have a few special guests: Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump, in town for a promotional blitz to support Folie a Deux, popped in to talk R&B and their failed impromptu performance at Washington Square Park earlier in the day.

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Secret/Totally Badass Fall Out Boy Show in Washington Square Park Is Not to Be, Alas



From up close -- or rather, from a slight distance across Washington Square Park on a dreary but unseasonably warm Monday afternoon -- the Fall Out Boy dudes all look like down-on-their-luck alt-rockers kicked out of Weezer for dressing too homely. (This is true even of Pete Wentz, who looks like he tried to cheer himself up after getting kicked out of Weezer by getting a haircut and buying expensive sunglasses.) Unfortunately, making juvenile attacks on their appearance is the only thing any of us get to do today: FOB was scheduled to play a "secret" show here at 3:30 sharp -- they had a guy tuning up multiple acoustic guitars laid out on a picnic table and everything, as a small scrum of excitable young folks milled about nervously and stared at him -- but this plan was evidently squashed by the authorities, who also milled around nervously/authoritatively.

Fuckin' cops.

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MEGA-selling US rockers Fall Out Boy are back with new album Folie À Deux on Monday – and I expect it to sell squillions.

Chicago lads frontman Patrick Stump, 24, bassist Pete Wentz, 29, and drummer Andy Hurley, 28, popped in to take over PLAYLIST while guitarist Joe Trohman rested up with the lurgy.

READ ON FOR THEIR TALES OF FAME AND FICKLENESS...

Our new album’s about the deluded side of fame – we are flying the flag for all the other weird kids.

We are in this because we want to make music, but there are lot of people who just want to ride limos and hang out with models.

People are always asking: “Does it suck to be a celebrity or is it awesome?” It’s just a microcosm of the world in general, especially the level we are at as we’re not flying in private jets.

There are just as many sh*tty celebrities as there are sh*tty regular people.

And there are just as many amazing celebrities who are intelligent and articulate.

Our friends John Mayer, Kanye West, Ne-Yo and Li’l Wayne are perfect examples.

We can come together and be the weird kids…

I think the key to our success is we are hanging out with a lot of other weirdos in their genres.

Pharrell Williams is the weirdest ever.

He was like: “Check out this chair design,” in the middle of doing a song.

It was the coolest chair… Pharrell is very motivated by pushing the envelope and being himself. And his method of working is very similar to ours.

He can make uncool things cooler than cool so when he walks into a room everybody turns to him.

There are not a lot of people on the American charts who are motivated by music as much as us guys are, which is a real shame.

TODAY'S PLAYLIST IS EDITED BY FALL OUT BOY!

Digital albums now offer liner notes and lyrics
By Antony Bruno



DENVER (Billboard) - CDs come with booklets filled with liner notes, lyrics, photos and more. But a digital album or single comes with bupkis -- an omission that started at the dawn of downloadable music.

Now technology has brought a solution: downloadable artist-branded applications for cell phones and handheld media players. And the first of these work on -- not surprisingly -- Apple's iPhone.

Before the December 16 release of Fall Out Boy's "Folie a Deux," the band will release an iPhone app that at first blush looks like its Web site.

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Fall Out Boy's FOLIE A DEUX out December 16, featuring the single "I Don't Care"

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-platinum Island Records band Fall Out Boy announced today that they are attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the Most Interviews on Radio in a 24 Hour Period by a Pair of Two. Pete Wentz and Patrick Vaughn Stump have teamed up to take over the radio airwaves to as many stations across the fifty states in a span of 24 hours. Their record quest will begin at 3:00am PST on October 31, at Premiere Studios in Los Angeles. The current Guinness World Record for the most radio interviews by a pair of two is currently 57 radio stations in 24 hours (completed in May 2008).

Fall Out Boy will release their third Island album, FOLIE A DEUX on December 16th. The first single is "I Don't Care" which is gearing up to be a hit at Modern Rock and Pop radio The video debuted on iTunes on September 25 and has been accepted across all music video channels including MTV and Fuse. In addition, Fall Out Boy will be MTV's 52/52 Choose or Lose Artist The Week of October 26-November 4, giving them the equivalent of over 11 hrs of on-air promotion that week on the channel. Fall Out Boy currently has seven songs, including "I Don't Care" on iTunes Top 100 Alternative Chart.

Fall Out Boy have built up a loyal following through relentless touring; they have performed over 1200 shows since their inception in 2000. The band's 2007 release Infinity On High debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was the follow-up to From Under The Cork Tree, their Island debut of May 2005, which spent 72 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Hailing from Chicago, Fall Out Boy -- Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Trohman (guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums) -- have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender, and Alternative Press and have performed on NBC's Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS's The Late Show with David Letterman, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, and more. They have won three MTV Video Music Awards and have received a Grammy nomination as well.

About Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is one of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe. Guinness World Records celebrated its 50th anniversary edition in 2004, a year after the sale of its 100 millionth copy. Guinness World Records also annually publishes the Gamer's Edition; a records book devoted solely to the world of computer gaming and high score record achievements. The Guinness World Records website (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com) receives more than 11 million visitors a year. Guinness World Records is part of the Jim Pattison Group, one of Canada's largest privately owned companies which is a conglomerate of interests, including advertising, broadcasting, grocery stores and automotive retailing.

SOURCE The Island Def Jam Music Group

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Obama vs. Fall Out Boy: Who Is More Popular?
10/22/2008 by Jim Naureckas

James Rainey of the L.A. Times (10/22/08) quotes a colleague dismissing the size of Barack Obama's crowds as an indication of the Obama campaign's chances in November:

"Fall Out Boy gets crowds this big," Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal said at the Miami rally, referring to the pop punk band. "But I don't think they are going to end up in the White House.

"You can't learn anything about the outcome based on how big the crowd is," Weisman continued. "These are the people who are already convinced."

Of course, this is silly--you don't compare the size of political rallies to rock concerts, but to other political rallies, and compared to other political rallies, Obama's are quite large. But does Fall Out Boy really get crowds as big as Obama's?

Weisman reported that the Miami rally drew 30,000. A few moments of Googling turned up this from a South African music blog:

And then came FOB. From song one to the last song an hour and a half later, they rocked and rocked and rocked a bit more. They played only one show in SA and last night was it. They also noted that the Jo’burg concert will be the biggest crowd that they play to the entire year. I think there were close to 20,000 people in the audience.

According to the blog, then--and I have no reason to believe that its any less accurate than the Wall Street Journal--the biggest crowd Fall Out Boy played to last year was one-third smaller than the crowd Weisman attributed to Obama--which was not a particularly big crowd as Obama rallies go.

It's reminiscent of the argument made by right-wingers that an Obama rally in Portland that drew 75,000 was preceded by a free concert by The Decembrists, so the turnout didn't really reflect Obama's drawing power. Fans of the band pointed out that a typical Decembrist show will fill a club with a capacity of 1,200.


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Fall Out Boy mix style and substance
by DAVID BALDWIN - Thursday, October 16, 2008

Fall Out Boy are very much a band of two halves. On one side you have Patrick Stump, the chief songwriter and slightly dorky-looking frontman who seems a bit uncomfortable with the whole fame thing.

Then there's Pete Wentz, the handsome bassist/lyricist who runs his own record label, hit the tabloids after getting hitched to Ashlee Simpson, acted in teen TV saga One Tree Hill and who talks candidly about his sexuality and battles with depression. Two hugely different people, but take away either and the whole thing would fall apart.

Stump is the heart of the band, the guy who puts together fantastic pop-rock tracks such as Dance, Dance and This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race. Wentz, meanwhile, is the guy who attracts all the press attention and delivers the sexual intrigue that gets teen emo girls all hot under the checkered sweatband.

They're the perfect partnership, and early cuts from the band's new album, Folie À Deux, suggest there's no rust developing either. Their new single, I Don't Care, is the perfect lead-off, chant-able choruses and all. In fact, I Don't Care amply illustrates the two sides of the band - a great tune (that'll be Stump), accompanied by a video featuring a cameo from Spencer Pratt from glitzy MTV reality soap The Hills (that'll be Wentz). Surface meets substance. A match made in heaven.

Sun Oct 19, NEC Arena, Bickenhill Road, Birmingham. Doors 6pm, £21.50. Tel: 0870 730 0196. www.falloutboyrock.com

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Where You Been?
Monday, October 13, 2008


Been away a spell, putting out another issue. Plus didn’t really know how to respond to my extremely bad punditry regarding the prospects for the NRL Preliminary Finals. Suffice to say that Manly were just phenomenal over those two weeks, and should scare the s*** out of every team in the comp next year.

But yeah, beyond that I’ve been putting out another issue of the magazine, and generating my highest single-issue word count for Real Groove ever, I think. Somewhere around 10,000, anyway, which seems like a lot. So I’m gonna dedicate this post to the four artists I wrote about in the issue, and put up one song each.

First up is Fall Out Boy, our cover story, and one that I’m not going to apologise for in any way, shape or form. They’re just incredible, if you still buy into the tired stereotypes about the band you’re just not listening hard enough, which is sorta criminal, to my mind. I heard six tracks from the forthcoming Folie à Deux yesterday afternoon, while drinking a cold steinlager in the late-afternoon sun, and I’m pumped. Infinity On High was, no word of a lie, one of the best albums of last year. It will be held up as a teen totem when they’re trying to figure out what the early 21st century was about, far more so than any absorbing but ultimately extremely unpopular indie rock ever will.

And it actually works. Listen to the opening bars of Thriller and marvel at their audacity in naming the song, and the perfect yearning they generate. Still gives me chills and I must’ve heard it at least 100 times by now. The new record sounds pretty much like the band deciding to let Patrick Stump off the leash, America’s Sweethearts (available on that killer Clinton Sparks-helmed mixtape of last month) sounds like the big one so far, showing their ability to move seamlessly between propulsive, almost funky verses into ridiculously overblown, enormous choruses hasn’t diminished in the slightest.

I’m posting their cover of Kanye’s Love Lockdown, which, in my opinion, pretty much destroys the original. That’s coming from someone who has debatably lost the ability to critically assess Kanye West, due to being utterly obsessed with him. But Love Lockdown is not quite right in his hands, it needs a singer who can really go for it… And then Patrick Stump, the greatest singer of his generation walks into the room, and it becomes near perfect. Doesn’t need to hide behind any autotune, just goes for the jugular, with some harsh guitar sprayed over that super-spare beat (drums-aside, it’s Whisper Song-minimal, come to think of it), and we’re set. Definitely the best version around.

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Putting Fall Out Boy’s $50K Donation in Perspective

Previously, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz had hinted at the band doing something to fight California’s Prop 8, which would overturn the state’s decision to allow same-sex marriages. And it appears that the band has put their money where their mouth is, as they have donated $50,000 to the No on 8 Campaign.

Hey, let’s face it, Pete Wentz has a big mouth!

$50K isn’t exactly a little bit of money, even for celebrities like Fall Out Boy. Keep in mind that this donation was made by a pro-gay band who have no openly gay members. And they didn’t have to donate that money. They could have spent it in other ways.

Lead guitarist Joe Trohman could have spent the money on a mint condition, never played 2008 Gibson Jimmy Page Black Beauty Pilot Run #9.

Drummer and comics fan Andy Hurley could have dropped the money on a mint condition copy of Amazing Fantasty #15, the comic that contains the first ever appearance of Spiderman.

The money could also have bought:

3,125 pairs of Vic Furth Andy Hurley signature drum sticks
3,846 copies of Infinity on High in the Fueled by Ramen webstore
1,428 G-A-B-E hoodies from the Fueled by Ramen webstore
2,632 Mikey F’in Way tee shirts from the official My Chemical Romance online store
6,257 copes of The Lost Boys from Amazon.com
11,235 packages of Smucker’s Uncrustables
Major kudos to Fall Out Boy for their donation.

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