Fall Out Boy

This article is about the Chicago pop punk band. For the Simpson's character, Bart's comic, see Fallout Boy.

Fall Out Boy are an American pop punk band from Wilmette, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago, Illinois) that formed in 2001. The band consists of Patrick Stump (lead vocals, guitar), Peter Wentz (bass, backup vocalist, and primary lyricist), Joe Trohman (lead guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums).

The band released a Split EP with Project Rocket in 2002 on Uprising Records.

The band then released their debut album Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, on Uprising Records in 2003. During this period Fall Out Boy built a following playing in Chicago and surrounding suburbs. The Knights of Columbus Hall was the site of many early Fall Out Boy shows. Their video for "Dead on Arrival" was shot there, which also served as a site for several "secret shows".



Drummer Andy Hurley joined the band after Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend was released. The same year they released their second full-length album, Take This to Your Grave, on Fueled by Ramen, with singles such as "Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy" and "Saturday" receiving airplay on FUSE and mtvU. The album achieved Gold status, though only after the success of their next album. In 2003, the band signed with Island Records. They released the acoustic EP My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue on Fueled by Ramen, which included a DVD, in 2004.





2005-2006: Commercial beginnings (From Under the Cork Tree)

In 2005, the band's stability was threatened when Wentz overdosed on the sedative Ativan in a suicide attempt. He told Rolling Stone that he has a fascination with the suicides of Elliott Smith and Ian Curtis and was quoted saying "It's so hard to think about and understand. I'm not making an argument for being a disturbed genius; I was a confused kid. I felt like I was Pete Wentz for everybody else, and I didn't have Pete Wentz to turn to." The song "7 Minutes in Heaven ( Atavan Halen) ," from their album From Under the Cork Tree, is based upon Wentz's attempted suicide.



On May 3, 2005, Fall Out Boy released their major label debut and third full-length album, From Under the Cork Tree, which debuted on the Billboard 200 at #9, selling over 70,000 copies in its first week, and soon thereafter achieving Double Platinum status. Their first single, "Sugar We're Goin' Down," peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100" and reached #1 on MTV's TRL, where the video was retired. The video also won the MTV2 Award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. The band was nominated for "Best New Artist" at the 2006 Grammy Awards.



They were a featured band on the 2005 Nintendo Fusion Tour, headlining with Panic! at the Disco, The Starting Line, Motion City Soundtrack, and Boys Night Out.



The band was also featured on the soundtrack for the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland video game which was released in October 2005. For this they recorded their version of the punk classic "Start Today" by Gorilla Biscuits.



Fall Out Boy has toured with multiple bands, including Taking Back Sunday, Less Than Jake, blink-182, Panic! At the Disco, Midtown, Hawthorne Heights, The All-American Rejects, The Academy Is..., The Hush Sound, October Fall, and From First to Last.





2007: Infinity on High

Fall Out Boy's next album was announced to be titled Infinity on High, and is scheduled for release on February 6, 2007. The lead single, titled This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, debuted at the 2006 American Music Awards. The video debuted on MTV Tuesday, December 19, 2006.



Infinity on High will have 14 tracks on the US version.



On December 16, the official Island Records newsletter confirmed the cover art for the album. It had been previously submitted into a contest that had been running on their website by a "PT WNTZ" (Presumably a shortened version of Pete Wentz).



The band showed up for a set on AOL sessions, playing two new songs, "Thriller" and "The Takeover, The Break's Over", the first single of their album Infinity on High, This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, and their old hit from From Under the Cork Tree, "Sugar, We're Going Down".



The Album was leaked on to the Internet on Friday, January 19th, 2007 to file-sharing sites, however, it is unknown if the track-listing is correct. While the listings on sites such as Amazon and Wikipedia have 13 tracks, the leaked version comes with 14 songs, the "unlisted" one being titled "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am"