- Rolling Stone’s New Critic: Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump has been in Rolling Stone before — he’s even been on our cover. But the Sean Penn issue hitting newsstands today marks the first time the singer-guitarist has written for the magazine: Yes, Stump reviewed the forthcoming CD/DVD The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience under the byline P.V. Stump for Issue 1072.
“It’s insane to say, but I never planned on being a singer,” Stump tells Rolling Stone. “The thing I really wanted to do was write about music; it’s what I planned on doing when I went to college.” Stump says he grew up with a subscription to Rolling Stone and spent hours listening to radio shows hosted by Chicago critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis.
When Stump visited our offices late last year, he confessed he’d always wanted to review albums for RS — so we put him to work. Why Peter Tosh? “I had a huge ska and reggae phase in junior high, so he’s always been a background character in my study of music,” Stump says. In his four-star review, Stump writes, “If Bob Marley was reggae’s Bob Dylan, Peter Tosh was its MC5: less accessible, more cocky and a whole hell of a lot more dangerous.”
Even though Stump is currently overseas with Fall Out Boy and the band will be hitting the road Stateside in the coming months, he’s already got his next assignment.
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