I'll scratch your track ...
Click to download Remixes by fans are so last week, notes Chris Salmon in his web music roundup - unless, of course, they're famous fans
Chris Salmon
The Guardian, Friday October 3 2008


Just a few months ago, bands could make themselves seem cutting-edge and in touch with their fans simply by launching a remix competition via their website. These days, everyone's at it, even Mariah Carey (hear the winners of her recent contest at indabamusic.com/mariahremix). Consequently, last week's launch of a second Radiohead remix competition, via radioheadremix.com, didn't attract the excitement of the first, though you can already hear some impressive reworkings on the site. Instead, it was left to Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump to add a new twist to the trend. After Kanye West offered the individual parts of his new single, Love Lockdown, on his blog (tinyurl.com/kanyeparts), Stump recorded a version and posted it online. Despite making it "in, like, five minutes" using his laptop's in-built microphone, the singer did a surprisingly good job, as you can hear at tinyurl.com/kanyestump

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Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Discusses His Cover Of Kanye West's 'Love Lockdown'
'I hope Kanye doesn't mind that I did it,' singer tells MTV News.
By James Montgomery


On Sunday, Fall Out Boy fans who are still actively following the rather Byzantine viral campaign for the band's new album, Folie à Deux — a campaign that has grown from a simple hijacked Web site to include Pete Wentz giving away sneakers and delivering doughnuts while wearing a wig and a fake mustache — were rewarded with a rather unique gift: A cover of Kanye West's "Love Lockdown," purportedly recorded by FOB frontman Patrick Stump.

And while the track certainly sounds like Stump's handiwork, many FOB fans (and MTV News) were wondering if it really was him or if the whole thing was just another layer to the ever-expanding Folie campaign. In order to get to the bottom of things, we decided to reach out to Stump himself. Surely, he'd be able to set the record straight.

"Yeah, [the cover] is just me in GarageBand. Nothing too serious," he wrote to MTV News in an e-mail. "I recorded it in the morning before work into my laptop speaker. It was in my head while I was trying to sleep, so I just went ahead and recorded it. I'd pretty much just woken up, and I laid it down in, like, five minutes."

Online reaction to the track has been overwhelmingly positive, though Stump is just taking it all in stride. After all, he's been dabbling in hip-hop for a while now. Earlier this year, he collaborated with the Roots on a song called "Birthday Girl," which ultimately didn't make the final cut of the band's Rising Down, and back in June, he worked with T.I. on "Out in the Cold," a song that didn't end up on Tip's Paper Trail. So he insists that he didn't cover "Love Lockdown" with any higher aspirations ... he was just a fan of the track, and he figured he'd take a shot at it.

"Kanye's version is obviously better. I hope Kanye doesn't mind that I did it. It sounds like a personal song. I'm just a fan of it," he wrote. "It reminds me of 'Heard It Through the Grapevine,' in the way that you're addressing an ex-lover, but I like the angle of 'It's not you, it's me,' 'cause there aren't enough breakup songs that are honest about that."

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In the Studio: Fall Out Boy
Pete Wentz says Folie A Deux is the Father of All Fall Out Boy Records.
Mikael Wood, Photo by Ture Lillegraven

Fall Out Boy's forthcoming Folie a Deux is part of a Star Wars-like trilogy, insists bassist and vocalist Pete Wentz. It began with the band's 2005 major-label debut, From Under the Cork Tree. "That was A New Hope, then Infinity on High was Empire Strikes Back," Wentz explains. And this one? "It's our Weekend at Bernie's." Dude's clearly lost a grip on his '80s trivia now that he's married with children.

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Fall Out Boy's 'I Dont Care' is Gen Z's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me'

I've spent a lot of extra-curricular time with Pete Wentz lately, so it's always a good day when my favorite arena-emo fameballs get it together to actually make new music. "I Don't Care," the debut single off Fall Out Boy's "Folie a Deux" (due out on election day, Nov. 4, but please don't be distracted, kids), falls somewhere in between their best moments like "Sugar, We're Going Down" and flatter notes such as their "Beat It" cover with, erm, John Mayer. "I Don't Care" strays from the hyper-glossy R&B kick of "Infinity on High" and into something approximating scuzzy classic rock, or as scuzzy as you can get with Island/Def Jam's quarterly outlook dependent on your radio spins.

One thing that you easily forget about Fall Out Boy is that, outside of Wentz, everybody in the band is a total ripper. Heck, even the perpetual Other Guy, guitarist Joe Trohman, had an album's worth of metal demos that impressed Liars, of all people. That instrumental swagger is immediately evident from the introductory T.Rex-meets-"Personal Jesus" guitar riff that's the catchiest thing about the song, and it's a welcome move when the song doesn't need Babyface's money pit to sound immediately distinctive on the radio.

There's all the typical self-reflexive lyrical silliness about guitars screaming like fascists and Wentz being a "heat wave in your pants" (wow, they really do aspire to being the Twitter generation's Def Leppard) and a chorus demanding, "I don't care what you think as long as it's about me." I'll allow FOB one album about the perils of tabloid-land, but I can't give them two. The obligatory stomper chorus is a bit of a non-starter too, even if it's cool to hear Patrick Stump exploring the Simone-ish bottom end of his white-dude soul warble.

Ah, but then there's that bridge when they let Stump off his leash and he ad libs some goshdarn actual melisma. That's the missing ingredient this band has taken three albums to find, and why they get to host MTV shows as side projects instead of the pack of aspirant jokers jacking their hype-fatigued M.O. There's a super cheeky wanker guitar solo to close the song out, which I'm always OK with from this band because they know how to mix it right, and it underscores why they earn the privilege of having text-message song titles and Jay-Z skits on their records. They can play circles around any other platinum-selling rock band these days, and they generally use those powers for good.

-- August Brown

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Fall Out Boy Speaks Its Mind On New Album
September 05, 2008 , 10:50 AM ET
Cortney Harding, N.Y.

"On some level, yes, this is a political record," Fall Out Boy singer/guitarist Patrick Stump tells Billboard of "Folie A Deux," due Nov. 4 via Island. "But it's a political record only insofar as anyone making music and paying attention to what's happening will make a record tinged with politics. You can't ignore it."

The band played at last month's Democratic National Convention in Denver, and is teaming with Rock the Vote until the election in November. At the Convention, Stump says the band kept its official comments nonpartisan, only encouraging people to register and vote. But, he adds, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama "is the most excited I've been about a candidate."

Fall Out Boys members are less forthcoming about the content of "Folie A Deux" -- bassist Pete Wentz says the record contains more "outside perspectives" and "fictionalized accounts" than previous efforts, but he declined to reveal any specifics.

"I'd rather let the listener interpret them," he says. "Every time you think we're talking about a girl, we're not, and every time you think we're not talking about a girl, we are."

Stump says an emphasis on the music was what Fall Out Boy was going for. "I felt frustrated with the last record because my voice was the focal point for many of the songs," he says. "When we were writing this one, we wanted it to be about all the parts coming together to form a whole."

Fall Out Boy will appear in this fall's teen comedy "Sex Drive"; the single "I Don't Care" will be featured in TV and radio ads for the film starting in September and will be used in the film's end credits. After the album is released, the band will team with the creators of the Got Milk? campaign to star in a series of ads called "Milk's Got Noise?"

An extensive tour will have to wait until the second quarter of 2009, as Wentz is expecting his first child with wife Ashlee Simpson.

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Fall Out Boy Exclusive: Band Previews Folie A Deux Tracks For MTV News
Patrick Stump explains LP's political edge and how Pete Wentz's marriage affects the lyrics.
By James Montgomery



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My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy remix The Cure
Plus Robert Smith and confirm new album release date


Members of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy are among a series of bands remixing The Cure for a new single.

AFI, 65 Days of Static and 30 Seconds To Mars are also tackling tracks from the 'Hypnagogic States EP'.

Members from each of the band are tackling the first four singles The Cure released from their new album, which will be released on October 13.

The remixes are:

The Only One' by Jared Leto from 30 Seconds to Mars
'Freakshow' by Jade Puget from AFI
'Sleep When I'm Dead' by Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance
'The Perfect Boy' remixed by Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy
'Exploding Head Syndrome' (all 4 singles) by 65 Days Of Static

Royalties from the EP will benefit the International Red Cross.

Meanwhile The Cure's new album, the band's 13th, will be released on October 13. There is no title for the record as yet.

Meanwhile the band's latest single 'The Perfect Boy' is out on August 13, go to www.thecure.com to hear a sample.

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Pete Wentz on Next Fall Out Boy LP: No “Happy Fairy Tales”

Last month, Pete Wentz told MTV News that the next Fall Out Boy album will be so riff-heavy, it might sound like AC/DC. The bassist confirms to Rolling Stone that he and singer-guitarist Patrick Stump are working on new tracks this summer the way they usually do: “Patrick’s obviously been writing all the music, and the words haven’t even really come in yet,” Wentz says. “I’ll go over to Patrick’s house and he’ll kind of just sit there and play songs, and I’ll be like, ‘Ah, that one’s awesome!’”

So will Wentz’s lyrics reflect his new status as a new husband and expectant father? “I think that it’s kind of blown out of control,” he says. “That people expect us to have a happy fairy tale record or something.” He notes that the band wanted to get started on new music sooner, but their cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” stood in the way. “I’m psyched to write new songs,” he says. “‘Beat It’ took off a little bit and that kind of stalled out our label and stuff like, ‘We gotta film a video for this.’ We weren’t in the right headspace to write songs before,” he adds. “We tried to before we went to Chile, and it makes a lot more sense now. We became good friends again, which is good.”

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Fall Out Boy, T.I. Team Up For Personal Song With 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Sound
'Out in the Cold' is 'in consideration' for Tip's upcoming album, Paper Trail, his label confirms to MTV News.

By James Montgomery

On the surface (or pretty much any other level), T.I. and Fall Out Boy don't have much in common. But that hasn't stopped them from joining forces on a new track, which is in line to appear on the rapper's upcoming Paper Trail album.

MTV News listened to a rough demo of the song, tentatively called "Out in the Cold" last week in Los Angeles, and judging from what we heard, fans of both camps are going to be rather surprised by the results.

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