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Just FYI, even though the webstore says all the t-shirts are sold out, most of them are still available to buy at shows. There are a lot of youth sizes left (I even saw the scribble shirt and the small faces shirt), lots of S/M/L in the light-colored shirts (but most of the dark colors are gone except for "Blood", especially in S/M), and a pretty big selection in XLs. There are also a lot of second-pressing CDs left. :-)
If anyone has taken pictures at the last couple shows, I hope you'll post them at theyareempires. Thanks!
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| Rock Sounds Reviews Folie a Deux |
[17 Nov 2008|06:35pm] |
Rating: (8)
Love them or loath them FOB won’t be ignored! ‘Folie À Deux’ is the fifth album from a band that have shifted over six million records worldwide – so it’s safe to assume they’re doing something right. Success aside, FOB have not been without their critics, having been accused of dubious pop-punk authenticity and songs prizing ‘ooh la la’s’ over substance, which have prevented the band from being taken seriously. That ends here! ‘Foile À Deux’ is a non-stop exotic cabaret for the ears, delivering a far-reaching selection of songs that leap between a blend of catchy pop punk like ‘Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet’ to the grandiose ‘Disloyal Order Of Water.’ It’s a pick’n’mix approach that was either going to see them crash and burn - or raise the stakes on the future capabilities of the band. Having upped the ante, it’s impossible to dismiss these gentlemen as a one trick pony. The new album is a crazed cacophony of crashing drums, guitars, and experimental distortion. To top it off, guest artists include Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry and Lil’ Wayne. Occasionally repetitive, but never dull, there is enough familiarity to keep old fans loyal, but this is a mature move forward which will see new fans welcomed into the FOB fold.
FOR FANS OF: Panic At The Disco, The All American Rejects, Elvis Costello
FAYE LEWIS
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The reviews in this post and the previous two posts were originally linked by AP.net.
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| The Guardian Reviews Folie a Deux |
[17 Nov 2008|06:33pm] |
The puppy dog eyes, under bite and pubescent-looking torso of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz have aided his band's ascent to the position of chief poster boys of the now lucrative emo scene. The twist being that he's neither his band's singer, nor its creative driving force. Fall Out Boy, rather, are led by Patrick Stump, a marshmallow-faced anti-frontman who has steered the Chicago four-piece from angst-fuelled post-Green Day punk rockers into a multi-platinum-selling pop machine.
The remaining traces of the punk sensibility that marked 2007's Infinity on High out as arguably the ultimate realisation of the oxymoronic 'commercial punk' canon are but a vague memory on the band's fifth full-length studio outing. Their recently released cover of Jacko's 'Beat It' appears to have been more than just idle between-album fun. Wentz's love of the limelight - he's in a much-publicised relationship with teeny-bop delinquent Ashlee Simpson while photos of himself, nude, turned on up the web - has allowed Stump to retreat further into his childhood Eighties fantasies and MOR aspirations.
These are most evident on their vogue-ing Duran Duran tribute, 'Tiffany Blews'. 'You're a classic, like a little black dress,' runs its startlingly suave refrain. Indeed, one wonders whether an entirely separate vocal studio was required for the harmonic textures that spill over from the dizzying rock opera of '27', or the Justin Timberlake-like falsetto that dominates 'The (Shipped) Gold Standard's FM radio rock. As for 'w.a.m.s.' and 'West Coast Smoker', they combine extravagant orchestral drama with a sleek, hooky momentum that's more Quincy Jones than Mick Jones.
The combination of hotshot producer Neil Avron (also known for his work with Linkin Park) and Stump's nostalgic leanings mean that each chug, roar and wail of the band's guitars come shrinkwrapped within squeaky-clean studio compression. And while this all may sound suspiciously over-indulgent, the fact is these self-styled 'soft-core' rockers are fulfilling their own prophesy. Having always eyed the glitz and gleam of the mainstream, it's hard to begrudge them these overblown gestures at this stage in their career. They are, it would seem, finally coming out of themselves.
Download 'Home is Where the Heart is'; 'You're a Classic'; 'Hurry Hurry'
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| Blender Reviews Folie a Deux |
[17 Nov 2008|06:26pm] |
Boys Will Be Boys: Emo champs mock life in the fast lane, totally admit they love it there.
Reviewed by Rob Sheffield
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There comes a time in every Fall Out Boy’s life when he realizes it is time to become a Fall Out Man. For Pete Wentz, this is not the time.
Wentz—ambitious son of a lawyer and the Chicago suburbs, not necessarily in that order, a showman and exhibitionist who has taken to the limelight like algae takes to the sunlight—is living the dream and in no hurry to make big changes. No matter how tormented or conflicted his lyrics, he always covers his tracks by treating rock stardom as some kind of class prank. Therein lies his greatness. With his Joan Collins slabs of eyeliner and his what, me worry? grin, looking uncannily like an emo version of Guy Smiley from Sesame Street, Wentz always seems to be having a blast, even when he’s stuck on MTV interviewing Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. He loves the show-biz hustle, whether covering Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” with John Mayer or walking red carpets with wife Ashlee Simpson.
Nobody should expect Wentz to start getting mature on Folie à Deux. And who would ever want him to? Now that he’s married and fatherhood looms, this is the brightest, breeziest, giddiest record Fall Out Boy have ever made. Wentz still comes up with ripe puns about teenage angst, set to sunny pop melodies and fleshed out by Patrick Stump’s gritty-as-Lubriderm vocals. The guitars still have rock momentum, yet every song seems to come with harmonies straight from a collegiate a cappella society. Even when they’re revisiting the self-involved adolescent malaise of “I Don’t Care,” they burst into a chorus of defiant Wentzfulness: “The best of us can find happiness in misery.”
Fall Out Boy have been talking up Folie à Deux as their big political statement (it was originally scheduled to come out on Election Day). Maybe your neighborhood Wentzologist can elucidate the political significance of “She’s My Winona” or explain how they critique the subprime-credit collapse in “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet.” It sounds more like they’re playing around in the studio, constructing tracks out of stream-of-Twitter-feed song ideas and stacking up vocal overdubs into Electric Light Orchestra or Queen territory. (Panic at the Disco’s Brendon Urie adds vocals and keyboards to the not-very-adultly-titled “20 Dollar Nose Bleed.”) FOB pile on celebrity cameos like there’s no tomorrow, passing the mic with the zeal of an old-school Hollywood talk-show host. Lil Wayne raps a few barely audible words in “Tiffany Blews,” and Pharrell hams it up on the luxuriantly squishy Neptunes production “w.a.m.s.” Blondie singer Debbie Harry supposedly appears on “West Coast Smoker,” though if you can find her in the mix, you are probably with Scotland Yard.
The unlikely highlight is the piano ballad, “What a Catch, Donnie,” where Stump shows off his R&B vocal chops on some of Wentz’s most over-the-top lyrics. (“What a catch” rhymes with “I’ve got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match.”) A backup choir features members of Panic at the Disco, Gym Class Heroes and The Academy Is … , and just when you think the song is over, Elvis Costello comes in to sing one line. Ridiculous? Very. Which makes it a very Fall Out Boy moment.
DOWNLOAD “I Don’t Care,” “What a Catch, Donnie,” “(Coffee’s for Closers)”
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| More Pictures From The TRL Finale |
[17 Nov 2008|05:54pm] |
 
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| FOBR News Update |
[17 Nov 2008|05:30pm] |
Your Holiday Gift Bill on FOB! And a Sweet Tshirt.
There's a new contest up on FOB's MySpace where you can win a custom fob/myspace tshirt and get your holiday shopping bill paid by FOB - check it out!
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| New Fall Out Boy Myspace Bulletin |
[17 Nov 2008|04:08pm] |
Holly A Deux - Gifts on us!
Welcome to Holly a Deux!
We want to celebrate the upcoming release of Folie a Deux and the Holidays all together with our friends, on MySpace. We're giving away some great stuff include a custom FOB tshirt everyday for the next 30 days - there will only be 30 made.
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| Pete Wentz on baby names and Ben Affleck |
[17 Nov 2008|03:52pm] |
Pete Wentz on baby names and Ben Affleck
With the birth of Pete Wentz’s first child rumored to be just days away, associate editor T.J. Walter caught up with the dad-to-be in Philadelphia last week for an upcoming feature in the magazine. He reports that Wentz and the rest of Fall Out Boy (they're pictured at left; Wentz is second from the left) arrived in a very low-key manner: in two minivans. Not exactly rock 'n' roll style, and they grabbed their own bags before making their way into their hotel lobby. The easy arrival was a break from the norm for this rock quartet, especially Wentz, who has become a favorite of the paparazzi in L.A. and New York City. A little later T.J. met up with Wentz in his suite. With his signature flat-ironed hair tucked under a cap and a Clandestine hoodie (his clothing company), Wentz opened up becoming a dad, baby names and what Ben Affleck taught him. Click on read more below for all the details, and check the Dec. 14 issue of USA WEEKEND for more of our interview with Wentz, including his thoughts on the new album, Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy’s inaugural plans and his high-ranking political relative.
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| Pete Wentz Envelops ‘Real World’ Kids in Warm Emo Embrace |
[17 Nov 2008|03:49pm] |
Pete Wentz is letting The Real World shoot at his East Village bar, Angels & Kings, because nobody in Brooklyn, where the cast is living, wants them in their bar.
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