Fall Out Boy Album Slotted For New Release Format

(PR) Fall Out Boy's Folie a Deux will be available on "slotMusic, a new form of DRM-free MP3 music on a microSD card on December 16, the same date as their albums will be released digitally and on CD.

slotMusic card will give the band's fans a chance to enjoy their music in a variety of ways and on a host of devices - from microSD-enabled mobile phones to computers and MP3 players.

Going beyond the tracks on the CD and digital release of the Fall Out Boy's Folie à Deux, the slotMusic card has an extras including a remix of the song "American Suitehearts" and 3 behind the scenes videos of the band's European tour.

slotMusic is an innovative physical format for music with a pre-existing install base for DRM-free music. The plug-and-play slotMusic card eliminates the compatibility questions and the hassles of managing files, downloading here, transferring there by offering music in a physical format that is simple to use, works well with many different devices.

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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 Patrick Stump explains Folie A Deux's release change
"This election is too important to mess with"


Last week saw Fall Out Boy's upcoming album, Folie A Deux, move from its original release date of 3 and 4 November to 15 and 16 December.

Although there were posts on the band's website that addressed the change, it has still been a source of confusion and concern amongst fans. In an exclusive interview with MusicRadar, Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump explains the band's decision to pull the record from November - while at the same time expressing reservations about a December release.

"Initially we wanted to put the record out on election day," says Stump. "We saw the album as something of a statement, and we wanted to make that connection with the release date. Not in an overtly partisan way, just an honest way. People tend to approach politics like sports, which is sad. Stats, who's up, who's down, who's got the better soundbite - this is life-and-death stuff, and we have to treat it seriously.

"Gradually, though, we realized that this election is too important to mess around with. We'd be doing radio promo and disc jockeys would be like, 'Okay, let's get out the vote for Fall Out Boy!' It started to feel very gimmicky. This is probably the most important election in a hundred years - certainly in my lifetime - so we thought, Hey, let's not get ourselves mixed up in all of this."


December's children

"Moving the record was a huge decision," says Stump," and it didn't make things easy our label - they have other records on the schedule, so they just can't slot us in anywhere. There's so much involved with the record company machinery; to make one change is like trying to alter the direction of an ocean liner. I'm just glad they got us a release date for this year; that was really important to us.

"Is mid-December optimal? No, of course not. Nobody in the band is thrilled about that. It's so close to Christmas. Are we going to be forgotten about in the shopping rush? Will we be be that last-minute gift? Who knows? And Chinese Democracy is actually going to be out - we sure didn't count on that!

"But because we already have I Don't Care out as a single, to wait for 2009 would have been really bad, maybe even a disaster. Hopefully, everything will work out. We have very loyal fans, so we're trusting they remember us when the time comes."

While you're waiting for December, check out the video to I Don't Care. It's a hoot!

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Fall Out Boy dodge election clash


Rock band Fall Out Boy have pushed back the release of their next album so it no longer clashes with the US presidential election on 4 November.

In a statement posted on their website, the group said they had originally thought "it would be fun" for the release to coincide with the poll.

But they added: "This is not the election to be cute. This is the most important election of our time."

Their new record, Folie a Deux, will now be released on 16 December.

The group said their record is a "social commentary" and the album title is "relevant to the candidates", but felt they had made the right decision.

"We felt as though rather than making a commentary we were only riding the wave of the election.

"This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick."

The band, best known for hits such as This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, said they felt interviews and press had "skewed us into a partisan band".

"We never intended to be the band that shoved our ideas down peoples throats," they added.

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Fall Out Boy Delay Folie A Deux Release To Avoid Election Day
'This is not the election to be cute,' band says in a statement.
By James Montgomery


These days, albums are delayed for all sorts of reasons, but Fall Out Boy's Folie à Deux could be the first in history to get bumped for patriotic purposes.

In a statement posted Monday (October 13) on FriendsOrEnemies.com, FOB announced that Folie, which was originally — and very pointedly — scheduled to hit stores November 4, is being delayed because the band felt that the upcoming presidential election is too important to be mocked. Seriously.

"Six months ago, we thought it would be a fun idea to release our album on Election Day, but this is not the election to be cute. This is the most important election of our time and, as much as the record is a social commentary and the term 'folie à deux' is relevant to the candidates, we felt as though rather than making a commentary, we were only riding the wave of the election. This seemed less and less like what we intended to do and more of a gimmick," their statement read in part. "While we have all individually expressed our positions on the candidates that we support, we feel that many of the interviews and press for the record have skewed us into a partisan band. We never intended to be the band that shoved our ideas down people's throats. We only hope people look at the bigger picture and investigate the issues further on their own."

So, just when will Folie see the light of day? Why, that's a very good question — one the guys in Fall Out Boy don't seem to have the answer for.

"It is our intent to get our record out this year and as soon as possible, as we made sure to have it done in time for its original release. It is now in the hands of our label to give us a new release date," the statement continued. "When is the record coming out? Currently, we're not sure. We will be working hard to put pressure on our label to get it out before the end of the year, but it is now in other people's hands."

And while the whole "this is the most important election of our time" thing does seem rather, well, honorable, it might not be the only reason for the delay. For months, there have been whispers that FOB might be at odds with their label, Island Def Jam, over the handling of the album. Just a few weeks back, Pete Wentz publically fumed about a product-placement-heavy version of their "I Don't Care" video that debuted on iTunes without the band's permission — and Monday's statement doesn't exactly shy away from placing the onus squarely on the label.

It also probably didn't help matters that the label already has a rather stacked November release schedule, with both the Killers' Day and Age and Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreaks due later in the month.

MTV News' calls to Island Def Jam for comment on the Folie delay were not returned, nor were e-mails to FOB's management company, Crush.

In the meantime, Fall Out Boy promised fans that they would make up for the Folie delay by adding "a surprise or two to the record," including a "golden ticket" campaign and a new preorder scheme "that will take into account the current state of our economy." They also wrote that they would honor all existing preorders for the album and announced plans for a special fans-only small-club tour, to kick off when Folie was supposed to hit stores.

"We are extremely sorry, but we feel that we are doing this for reasons that suit our ideals and are unselfish," they wrote. "We are now playing a select series of extremely small-club shows in the States in November. This will not be a tour and will not be in areas we have played in a while. These shows will take place in extremely small clubs that we played in prior to Take This to Your Grave. Tickets will be very affordable and only available on day of."

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Fall Out Boy's New Album To Feature Lil Wayne, Pharrell And ... Blondie's Debbie Harry?
'The record is going to be diverse,' bassist Pete Wentz tells MTV News of Folie à Deux.
By James Montgomery


It's perhaps testament to Fall Out Boy's clout that even when they're publically denouncing rumors about big-name musicians making cameos on their albums, there's a pretty good chance that those big-name musicians actually will end up making an appearance of some sort ... and they'll probably bring along some of their friends too.

Case in point: Last month, an underage — yet apparently very knowledgeable — blogger named Justin Goldberg posted on his site that Kanye West and Lil Wayne were lined up to make appearances on FOB's Folie à Deux album, citing "a reliable source."

"Knowing the right people has finally paid off," Goldberg wrote in the post.

A few days later, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz addressed that post on his blog, writing that "none of the guests but the ones we have named are currently on the record, to clear [things] up."

And yet, at the same time, he was apparently working overtime to make (some) of said cameos happen, because on Thursday, Wentz confirmed to MTV News that Wayne will appear on Folie, along with a few other guests that might raise an eyebrow or two.

"We got Wayne and Debbie Harry cameos done," he wrote in an e-mail. " Pharrell produced a track too."

The Wayne cameo we can understand — after all, FOB's last album, Infinity on High, kicked off with a spoken intro from none other than Jay-Z — and Williams did spend plenty of time hanging out on the set of the band's "I Don't Care" video last month, so we get that one too. But where does Debbie Harry — frontwoman of groundbreaking NYC punk/ new-wave act Blondie — fit in on Folie?

Well, Wentz isn't exactly sure either, but he knows that her cameo works with the entire vibe of the album. "I just think the record is going to be diverse," he wrote. "It goes all the way between [Blondie and Wayne]."

He remained tight-lipped about just what FOB fans can expect to hear from Wayne and/or Harry, but he did hint that there were more surprise guests still to be revealed — and some of them may be even more head-scratching than Harry. He also was mum about just what song Williams produced on the album — though perhaps you can venture a guess using the just-released track list.


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Album Preview: Fall Out Boy Explore Soul, Baseball on “Folie A Deux”

This morning, Fall Out Boy dropped by the RS offices to feed us breakfast and play a few tracks off their upcoming album, Folie A Deux (out November 4th). On their fifth disc, the guys pump out chunky, Eighties-inspired riffs and lung-busting choruses sure to hook anyone who’s not already a FOB fan. “I must confess, I’m in love with my own sins,” Patrick Stump sings on “America’s Sweethearts,” a strutting, tongue-in-cheek ode to narcissism that cops Beatle-esque harmonies. (A snippet of the song was on FOB’s recent Welcome to the New Administration mixtape.)

Another standout track was “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown,” a dark, New Order-reminiscent stomp about an unfaithful chick. (The title originally name-dropped Pete Rose, but the band was discouraged because of the lawsuit brought against OutKast over the reference to Rosa Parks in the title of an Aquemini single. This bums Pete Wentz out: “I wanted to see Pete Rose in Cooperstown,” he says. “I was all about it.”) Stump shows off his soul chops on the cut, belting, “Does he know the way the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?” before ripping into the defiant refrain: “I will never end up like him.”

After the listening session, we asked the blog-happy Wentz for some tips on improving RollingStone.com. “I’m absolutely the wrong guy to ask,” he admitted sheepishly. “I put the wrong stuff on the Internet.”

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Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Fumes Over Surprise Product Placement In 'I Don't Care' Clip
'This is NOT the edit the band approved,' bassist wrote in now-removed blog post.
By James Montgomery


On Thursday, at precisely 10:03 p.m. ET, Fall Out Boy fans received an e-mail from Island Records trumpeting the premiere of the band's new "I Don't Care" video on the iTunes Music Store.

"It's Here! It's Here! 'I Don't Care' Video Premiere on iTunes!" the subject line shouted. "It's the moment you've all been waiting for. The 'I Don't Care' video is now premiering on iTunes!"

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AP EXCLUSIVE: PETE WENTZ EXPLAINS STORY BEHIND NEW FOB VIDEO
Posted by Scott Heisel

The video for Fall Out Boy's latest single "I Don't Care" premiered on iTunes yesterday with a slew of cameo appearances: Gilby Clarke, Mark Hoppus, Pharrell, even Spencer from The Hills make appearances disguised as members of the band causing all sorts of havoc (don't worry so much about the last one--he gets punched out in the end).

But don't think Hoppus is getting into street fights or Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship is a flasher. "The reveals of these characters have no implication on what we believe them to be. It's just mayhem and chaos," Pete Wentz tells AP. "Don't go thinking Mark Hoppus is a bad guy or anything." The former Guns N' Roses guitarist was called in to represent the quintessential Sunset Strip rocker, and ignites the action by challenging the guys when he says rock has gone soft. "Clarke is like the old-school Nick Nolte character in Tropic Thunder," says Wentz.

As for the fascist imagery of the performance parts of the video, Wentz says the band were inspired by the documentary called 638 Ways To Kill Castro. "It's like, 'What if there was a Che Guevara/Castro rally for an '80s rock band?' We got those diesel trucks and used whatever uniforms we could afford to make everybody look the same," he says.

The banners flanking the band include images of Wentz's dog Hemmingway and a bear, a nod to Luke Chueh's artwork for the cover of FOB's upcoming album, Folie A Deux.

"People can take away whatever they want from a bear screaming into a microphone," says Wentz. "I'm sure they will." -J.R. Griffin

You can view the "I Don't Care" video below; what do you think about it?

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New Fall Out Boy video removed from internet
Pete Wentz unhapy with product placement in ‘I Don’t Care’ clip


Pete Wentz has expressed his dissatisfaction at a new Fall Out Boy music video, after a phone company had rather too much product placement in the clip.

On his blog, Wentz said that the video the band worked on for ‘I Don’t Care’ was not the one that aired, and that they were not aware of the addition of the camera phone shots that ended up in the video.

The video went on sale on iTunes, and was full of product placement of Nokia phones, reports rollingstone.com, prompting Wentz to have the clip removed from iTunes and Youtube.

Wentz blogged: “This will probably end up deleted either by me or someone else but the version of the video that we worked on night after night is not the version that aired. Yet somehow a cut full of glorious camera phone shots did. Just to let you know. It doesn’t make any sense to us.”

Dad-to-be Wentz also said that any deals done with the phone company would not benefit charity and not Fall Out Boy saying:

“That bag of money is being donated straight to a cause far more worthy.”

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