Earlier this year, Alex “Yung Skayda” Calderon, a vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist in the duo XIX, was trying to make the time pass quickly while working at a warehouse job for Amazon. “I was just by myself for hours, so I would rap flows all the time,” he says. “I …
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Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy have officially postponed their massive Hella Mega stadium tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Hopefully this doesn’t come as a surprise,” the bands wrote in a joint statement on Instagram, “but as much as we were all looking forward to seeing you all …
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From the start, the Damned Things’ existence seemed unlikely: What were two dudes from Fall Out Boy doing in a band with the guy from Anthrax? But FOB lead guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley knew their hard rock, and ended up sounding right at home on the band’s …
Read More »Pete Wentz on New Fall Out Boy LP: 'Sometimes You Need a Hard Restart'
Fall Out Boy are releasing their seventh album,Mania,on September 15th, but so far they’ve said very little about it and let the singles “Young and Menace” and “Champion” do most of the talking. But with the release date closing in, we reached out to Pete Wentz so he could let …
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