- Pianos Become The Teeth are beginning to write new material.
- Houston Calls began teasing fans about a possible reunion.
- Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy started a new band called With Knives.
- Pete Wentz opened up about Fall Out Boy’s future.
- The Mars Volta announced a new album.
- The Bamboozle Festival released its full lineup.
- The Devil Wears Prada and Every Time I Die will be touring together.
- Say Anything announced a US tour with Kevin Devine and Fake Problems.
- Senses Fail and six other bands were confirmed for Warped Tour.
- Death Cab For Cutie revealed the dates for their spring tour.
- Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows lost their bassist.
- Jimmy Eat World are writing for their new album.
- Tigers Jaw are aiming to release their new LP in the fall.
- Taking Back Sunday have begun demoing new music.
- Ace Enders released a surprise EP.
- Drive-Thru Records released a statement on their current status.
- Frank Turner has at least 15 new demoes for his next release.
Pete Wentz recently did an interview on CNN where we answered questions for fans. In the interview, Wentz stated that he currently could not see himself playing with Fall Out Boy or writing new music with the band. You can check out the full interview here.
Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things) has started a new band with Josh Newton called With Knives. You can check out a lengthy update from Trohman below on the band by clicking “Read More.”
Bebe Rehxa confirmed earlier today that she had indeed left Black Cards to pursue a solo career. Pete Wentz has now issued his own statement on the band that makes it seem like the band could possibly be coming to an end, but that they will be releasing a new mixtape soon and will be touring on it. Read the statement below by clicking “Read More.”
Vocalist Bebe Rexha has confirmed that she has left Black Cards. The decision was mutual between her and the remaining members in the band. Check out a message from Rexha below by clicking “Read More.”
Historically, when singers of wildly popular bands have stepped out from the acts that made them famous, success has been all but guaranteed, even if that singer wasn’t the driving musical force. Call it the Rod Stewart phenomenon. But Fall Out Boy aren’t exactly your typical band. While Patrick Stump may have been the guy behind the mic, bassist Pete Wentz was in most people’s minds, including those of much of Fall Out Boy’s highly-dedicated fanbase, the band’s ostensible frontman, or at least its public face. But while popular perception placed Pete Wentz at the heart of Fall Out Boy’s creative process, it becomes quickly apparent listening to Soul Punk just how integral Stump was to their sound, especially as that band’s sound grew to match their arena-sized ambitions. Soul Punk operates in a different sonic space than did Fall Out Boy, it has a different locus of influences, but there are myriad common threads to be followed from one to the next; there’s nothing about this progression that feels unnatural, and fans of Fall Out Boy’s Folie A Deux should feel right at home amidst Soul Punk’s outsized hooks and unrestrained bravado.
To be sure, Stump’s vocals—full-throated and unhindered, smooth with deep soulful tones, often ululating wildly just on the edge of control but never crossing that line—are the clearest link between the band and his solo work. But Soul Punk finds Stump lots of opportunities to toy with new vocal possibilities. The opening verses of “The ‘I’ In Lie” and “Allie” find him affecting a Prince-ly falsetto; “Dance Miserable” is full of New Jack Swing-style harmonies. There’s a moment in “Cryptozoology” when Stump hisses “Some days I may express myself in curious ways” that makes for a startlingly perfect Rick James impression.
But it’s Stump’s lyrical bent on Soul Punk that really breaks new ground. In Fall Out Boy, Stump often served as a sort of librarian for Wentz’s stray thoughts, cataloging and organizing his bandmate’s deeply personal revelations and singular turns of phrase. There was a sort of clubbiness to the Fall Out Boy approach: to be a fan was to be a member of the team (albeit a team which anyone was welcome to walk on), a soldier in the Clandestine-cloaked army of Overcast Kids with lyrics for marching cadences. On Soul Punk, Stump takes a much more universalist tack, repeatedly invoking the sort of broad-brush we-isms of Sly Stone and Marvin Gaye and large swaths of the 70s soul music he clearly holds dear. If Fall Out Boy were “us against the world,” Soul Punk is a little more “We Are The World”
A rumor began spreading like wildfire tonight that Fall Out Boy would be playing a show in Lancaster, PA. Both Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman have confirmed that the show listing was a fake and that there are no plans to reunite Fall Out Boy in the immediate future. Check out tweets from Wentz and Trohman below by clicking “Read More.”
William Beckett (ex-The Academy Is…) and Bonaventure recently played a cover of Fall Out Boy’s “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out.” Check it out below by clicking “Read More”.
New Live Performance: “Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers)” // Patrick Stump
New Cover: ”This Christmas (Live)” // Patrick Stump
Patrick Stump recently stopped by the set of Hoppus On Music while he was in New York City to play a solo show. You can check out clips of his appearance below by clicking “Read More”.
New Live Performance: ”This City” // Patrick Stump
Black Cards have released a new remix of Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” Stream it below by clicking “Read More”.
New Cover: ”Kiss (Originally by Prince)” // Patrick Stump
