- Fall Out Boy and Snoop Dogg... For Rizzle.
I may have been a bit out of the loop on this one, but apparently there are still some dark corners of the network called MTV that actually are still focused on music.
I know, it surprised me, too, but I doubt that I’ve lingered on MTV for more than a few moments since Jackass was still in production.
Apparently, though, the network still likes to focus on music a little bit at least; enough so that they gave a talk show to Snoop Dogg. It’s called "Dogg After Dark," and features all of that stuff that people like on late night talk shows.
OK, I guess that’s not really all that music related, but it’s pretty music intensive for the way MTV has gone recently.
And Snoop Dogg isn’t all that punk, either. Really, the only reason I even brought it up is that Fall Out Boy recorded a music number for the show, and a clip of the performance has been put on the YouTubavision. You can watch Fall Out Boy treating Snoop Dogg to some of their pizzop pizzunk right here.
"Dogg After Dark" is on Tuesdays on MTV. Check your local listings and all that.
http://punkmusic.about.com/b/2009/03/02/fall-out-boy-and-snoop-dogg-for-rizzle.htm
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- Pete Wentz Is Convinced Someone Will Murder Him Pete Wentz is famous for his bare-it-all past interviews, in which he either discussed his relationship with pop star Ashlee Simpson or his fondness of women’s apparel. This time, the rocker reveals that he’s terrified for his life, living under the conviction that someone will eventually murder him – which is why he never answers the door, as he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail.
Wentz, who, in the past, has also spoken about his bipolar disorder and suicide attempt, shares that his life is now mostly lived in the shadow of fear. It’s not that he’s receiving death threats that has got him to believe that, he adds, but some inner voice that keeps telling him that he will be killed. The best way to prevent this, as of now, is to never answer the door, Wentz also reveals.
“I used to think that some day I’d end up murdering a close friend or relative. Now it’s reversed and I’m convinced it’s going to happen to me. That’s the way I’m going out, I’m completely sure of it. So I refuse to answer the front door – it greatly minimizes that risk.” Pete Wentz explains for the Mail. However, he does not let that interfere with his life as a husband, father and musician, since these three are fixed points in his life that offer him the ability and power to tackle the bipolar disorder he’s been diagnosed with.
Speaking of music, Pete also points out that one of his greatest nightmares would come true if Johnny Depp ever joined Fall Out Boy. It’s not that the actor does not have a great voice – which he admittedly does – that frightens him, but the fact that he would virtually have to stand so close to someone who is the epitome of coolness.
“Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy’s work. But imagine being in a band with someone who’s a million times better-looking and charming than yourself. I wouldn’t stand a chance. Same goes for Barack Obama. How could I say no if he wanted to join the band? Maybe he could do some dancing at the side of the stage. That would be cool.” Pete jokingly concludes.
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- Fall Out Boy blazes a new trail for the music business Fall Out Boy recently launched a new contest for fans, giving them a chance to win tickets to the band’s upcoming North American tour. To be entered into the drawing, they must successfully navigate their way on the long, hard, zombie-infested road known as the Fall Out Boy Trail.
Based on popular computer game, The Oregon Trail, this updated version has kept many of its predecessor’s original features (graphics, text, and fording that damn river) while switching up some aspects to suit a fresh audience. Players are still required to ration food and supplies (McNuggets and laser beams) while facing some interesting new challenges--homesickness, sexually transmitted diseases, and that pesky Perez Hilton.
While Fall Out Boy Trail was created as a site for FOB fans, it’s also a clever marketing strategy. As they are playing the game, users can stream songs from Fall Out Boy’s latest album Folie a Deux and can even purchase music directly the iTunes Store. Players can also find a list of tour dates as well as information about other bands featured on the Friends or Enemies website, where the game is hosted.
Fall Out Boy is just one of many bands seeking creative solutions to stay afloat in an ever-changing music industry. No Doubt recently announced they will offer a free digital download of their complete album collection to those who purchase a full-price ticket to their new reunion tour. Depeche Mode has even teamed up with Apple, yielding the company’s first ever iTunes Pass for a single musical artist. With the iTunes Pass, fans pay a one-time fee of $19 in exchange for music videos, remixes, and more exclusive content that will be released over the next few weeks. A digital copy of Depeche Mode’s new album, Sounds of the Universe, will automatically be sent to customers when it drops on April 21st.
Though there’s no telling if any of these strategies will actually work, for Fall Out Boy the odds are stacked in their favor. Fall Out Boy Trail is already the buzz on entertainment blogs and music websites, appealing to a diverse group of users. Fans of the band are the obvious audience but the game is also a draw for old-school Oregon Trail aficionados (geeks) and one possibly overlooked demographic: the haters. Now multitudes of people who despise Pete Wentz have the perfect opportunity to inflict bodily harm without the risk of jail time, all while bopping their heads along to some Fall Out Boy tunes.
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- Fallout Boy is coming to the San Francisco bay area Fall Out Boy is on tour in support of their album Folie a Deux. Bands Cobra Starship , All Time Low , Metro Station, and Hey Monday will be joining them. If you want to see Fall Out Boy, they'll be in town April 7th and 8th. If you want more details than that, then I highly recommend you check out my Must See Music Calendar. In addition to making recommendations for who to see here in articles, I'll be posting all my weekly picks on the calendar so you can go there for a quick reference.
It's just getting started now, but will be growing in the coming weeks.
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- Falling for Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy's appearances in Singapore have all been rather timely.
Their last visit, in March 2007, took place soon after the band's platinum album Infinity on High was released. Playing to a packed hall, their hyper performance left the mostly teenage audience wanting more. Two years later, the rock group from Illinois is back - barely two months since the release of their new album, Folie A Deux.
Folie A Deux, which translates from the French as "madness shared by two", refers to a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom is transmitted from one individual to another. But on February 10 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, the madness was passed among 4,000 audience members (mostly teens), who flocked to see the quartet, consisting of 24-year-old Patrick Stump on vocals and guitar, 29-year-old bassist Peter Wentz, 28-year-old drummer Andy Hurley and 24-year-old guitarist Joe Trohman.
An opening act by fellow American band, Hey Monday, warmed up the stage for the main performance. Although the voice of frontwoman Cassadee Pope was unstable and most of the time drowned by the drums and guitars, they seemed to keep the crowd happy.
At 9 p.m., all hell broke loose: The audience screamed their lungs out as Fall Out Boy kicked off the show with a 2007 hit from Infinity on High, "Thnks fr the Mmrs". The second song, "Thriller", was taken from the same album.
Next they gave the crowd an older tune, "A Little Less 16 Candles, A Little More `Touch Me'" from the band's 2005 record From Under the Cork Tree.
Three back-to-back hits - "Sugar, We're Goin Down", "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", and new single "I Don't Care" - sent the temperature and the decibels rising.
While it was mayhem in the standing area, chaperoning moms and dads sat quietly on the bleachers, occasionally nodding their heads and tapping their feet.
The band, known to perform famous renditions during their concerts, included in the night's song line-up Michael Jackson's "Beat it" and a surprising-but-nice take on Estelle's R&B number, "American Boy".
The boys are clearly not into lavish stage decor. The barren black stage was pretty much filled with the drum set, microphones and lighting stands. An enormous black backdrop with the band's name in white was the only stand-out decoration from the audience's view.
They did use some impressive lighting during "I Don't Care" - the whole stage went pitch black with only blinking LED lights on the band's guitars and bass on, having the effect of making the guitars look like heroes.
Although some of the audience members who were standing complained of a poor sound system, from the bleachers the band sounded neat. Patrick Stump's strong vocals and his mean solo guitar segment on "The Take Over, the Breaks Over" came through strongly. Although he did most of the singing, it was bassist Peter Wentz who did most of the talking.
New dad Wentz, who made a great contribution to the popularity of "guyliner" (as in eyeliner for guys), greeted the audience in between songs, asked them to shout "Welcome to Singapore" to their camera crew on stage, dished out some life advice ("school is cool, guys") and at one point read out a note handed by an audience member to promote his band.
He also performed his signature 360-degree jumping twirls across the stage several times. At the end of the show, he moshed into the audience and came out with his jeans halfway down his boxers.
Drummer Andy Hurley, comfortably engrossed in his playing, was drumming away barefooted and bare-chested, showing the top half of his body covered in tattoos. Guitarist Joe Trohman was rocking in his own world with his crazy curls covering his face as he jumped around the stage.
Sixteen songs and 70 minutes later the boys ended the show with "Saturday" from their 2003 album Take This to Your Grave.
While their music is widely labeled pop punk, they're often described as an "emo" band, and an influential one, too.
This much is true - just ask the groups of teenagers who showed up at their gig dressed all in black outfits with incredibly skinny jeans and their hair covering half their faces.
http://old.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20090221.Y02&irec=1
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- Lil Wayne to Duet With Fall Out Boy in Upcoming Rock Album Rapper Lil Wayne will enter recording booth with alternative rock band Fall Out Boy and make a collaboration with the Patrick Stump-fronted band for his upcoming rock-themed album "REBIRTH". Unfortunately, the title of their duet track has yet to be disclosed.
Wayne's duet with Fall Out Boy in "REBIRTH" will not be his first joint forces with the band as he has previously done several projects with them. He was featured in the band's single "Tiffany Blews" from their latest album "Folie a Deux". He also did a remix to the group's 2007 song "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and shared stage with them at 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.
Lil Wayne will not drop "REBIRTH" across U.S. until May 19. In the meantime, he is ready to once again rock U.S. as he has added more dates for his national "I Am Music" roadshow with T-Pain, Keri Hilson, Gym Class Heroes and Gorilla Zoe as his guest stars.
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- Fall Out Boy: "Folie à Deux" The members of Fall Out Boy are no strangers to the spotlight, and, as they demonstrate on their fifth studio album, "Folie à Deux," they really don't mind. Nowhere on the album is this fact more obvious than when Patrick Stump sings, "I don't care what you say as long as it's about me," in the first single, "I Don't Care."
Even with this dose of blatant narcissism, it's hard to know when, exactly, to take Fall Out Boy seriously. Bassist and lyricist for the band Pete Wentz has always had a tongue-in-cheek quality to his words, but there has always been an impression that he was having too much fun to be taken entirely seriously. It used to be one of the band's most alluring qualities - that, for the most part, they just looked like four, painfully normal guys from Chicago who just kind of happened to befriend Jay-Z and go on to sell millions of records.
But with Wentz's tabloid-magnet of a wife and his being the subject of many PerezHilton.com posts, it's possible the lyrics are becoming more of a reality than ever. After all, how many self-involved lyrics does a band have to sing before they finally start to hold some semblance of truth in them?
In true celebrity status, a collage of Fall Out Boy's pop-punk contemporaries mash up previous FOB singles, from "Dance, Dance" to "Sugar We're Going Down," on one of the best achievements of the record, "What a Catch, Donnie." Even new-wave legend Elvis Costello pitches in an acceptable, but awkward, refrain. Lil' Wayne and even Debbie Harry also lend vocals to the album.
Although it's by no means a distant departure from their last release, "Infinity On High," in typical Fall Out Boy fashion, "Folie à Deux" is brimming with hooks and performed with the band's usual razor-sharp, snarky perfection. Stump's distinct tenor is at its best on "Coffee's for Closers," when he reaches for stratospheric ranges. It's more apparent on this album that with each additional release, Stump's voice has grown increasingly soulful: if emo is truly the music of emotion, what better timbre to sing it with than Rhythm and Blues?
Unfortunately, as is the case with most Fall Out Boy records, "Folie à Deux" starts out impeccably strong and gradually loses steam before finally simmering out. Cuts like "27" and "W.A.M.S." are largely forgettable and might have been better off being cut from the album.
Fall Out Boy is undeniably a master of pop hooks, and the band has proven again that it remains relevant today and even has a few tricks up the sleeve. Pay special attention to the opening track of "Folie à Deux" … the opening lines of the song may not be the first of the album. At least some credit must be given to the band for still making it fun to actually buy a CD and even be surprised in doing so.
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