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"There's a road I'd like to tell you about/lives in my hometown/Lake Shore Drive the road is called/and it will take you up or down..."
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17 May 2013 @ 09:23 pm
By Thomas Conner
We knew this would happen. A band calls a time out, some members go solo, it doesn't fly, the band regroups. Happens all the time -- the question is: What's changed?
In the case of Fall Out Boy, Chicago's suburban emo heroes, just listening to the new record -- "Save Rock and Roll," the band's fifth album and second to debut at No. 1 -- one is confronted immediately with galloping strings, thundering drums and new overall sonic ambitions. The guitars aren't as brash and in-your-face as the production and vocals. This North Shore-born band -- singer-guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist-lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley -- clearly has evolved way beyond this album's endangered namesake.
Let's get right to that audacious title. Seriously?
"Over the past three years, I've spent a bunch of time driving around with a kid in the car," Wentz said recently from his current California home. "A lot of music sounded the same. Rock has become this quiet and quaint little thing. It's not that capital-R rock and roll needs saving -- the leather jackets and blues chords -- but I think little-r rock and roll does. Someone like Kanye or 2 Chainz seems very rock and roll to me. That's what we hope to inspire: a generation that could take that mantle back -- an attitude of fun, danger."
The first video from "Save Rock and Roll," for the single "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up)," features the band -- with rapper 2 Chainz -- pulling a Steve Dahl and torching piles of vinyl records.
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We knew this would happen. A band calls a time out, some members go solo, it doesn't fly, the band regroups. Happens all the time -- the question is: What's changed?
In the case of Fall Out Boy, Chicago's suburban emo heroes, just listening to the new record -- "Save Rock and Roll," the band's fifth album and second to debut at No. 1 -- one is confronted immediately with galloping strings, thundering drums and new overall sonic ambitions. The guitars aren't as brash and in-your-face as the production and vocals. This North Shore-born band -- singer-guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist-lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley -- clearly has evolved way beyond this album's endangered namesake.
Let's get right to that audacious title. Seriously?
"Over the past three years, I've spent a bunch of time driving around with a kid in the car," Wentz said recently from his current California home. "A lot of music sounded the same. Rock has become this quiet and quaint little thing. It's not that capital-R rock and roll needs saving -- the leather jackets and blues chords -- but I think little-r rock and roll does. Someone like Kanye or 2 Chainz seems very rock and roll to me. That's what we hope to inspire: a generation that could take that mantle back -- an attitude of fun, danger."
The first video from "Save Rock and Roll," for the single "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up)," features the band -- with rapper 2 Chainz -- pulling a Steve Dahl and torching piles of vinyl records.
( Read more...Collapse )
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