Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, formed in 2001. The Grammy-nominated band consists of vocalist, guitarist and composer Patrick Stump, bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band released five studio albums from 2003–2008. They announced an indefinite hiatus in late 2009. Fall Out Boy have not broken up, rather they are taking a rest and the members are engaging in various side projects. Fall Out Boy was ranked the 93rd Best Artist of the 2000–10 decade by Billboard.[2]
With Pete Wentz as the band's primary lyricist and Patrick Stump as the primary composer, Fall Out Boy broke out of the underground music scene and reached mainstream success with their major label debut, From Under the Cork Tree. Released in 2005 as the follow-up to their 2003 effort Take This to Your Grave, the album won several awards and achieved double platinum status after selling more than 2.5 million albums in the United States. It spawned two top ten hits: the double platinum certified lead single "Sugar, We're Goin Down" which reached number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the platinum "Dance, Dance". The group headlined tours around the world in 2005 and 2006 to support their record. In 2007, Fall Out Boy released their follow-up album, Infinity on High, to major chart success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 and selling 260,000 copies in its first week, with top five chartings worldwide. Infinity saw a musical departure from Fall Out Boy's previous releases in which the band implemented a variety of styles other than pop punk. The album's first single, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", reached the top position on the defunct-Billboard Pop 100 and number two on the Hot 100, and was the band's first song to chart successfully worldwide, reaching the top five in many countries. The album also spawned the second single "Thnks fr th Mmrs" which was certified gold but has sold over two million units. The group released Folie à Deux in 2008 and further evolved their musical pallete. Fall Out Boy announced an indefinite hiatus in late 2009, leading to breakup rumors. Since then, Stump explained that Fall Out Boy never broke up and are simply "on a break" while the members work on other projects[3] and commented that "Fall Out Boy is just not planning anything right now. I would be very, very surprised if we don’t do another record again".
With the release of their 2009 greatest hits album, Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits, and in regard to the legacy of the band, Allmusic senior-editor Stephen T. Erlewine wrote that Fall Out Boy "seems like one of the quintessential mainstream rock singles bands of the 2000s."[4]
The members of Fall Out Boy have pursued various side projects during the band's hiatus. Singer and guitarist Patrick Stump announced his solo project in January 2010. His solo album is the ultimate solo effort as he wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, produced it, funded it and did everything entirely himself without any help. He later revealed the title of his debut full-length studio album to be Soul Punk and has set the release date as October 18, 2011. Stump originally completed Soul Punk in 2010 but started again from scratch to re-build the album around a song called "This City" that he wrote at the eleventh hour because he wanted to include it but felt it didn't fit on the record. He has released a remix of "This City" to iTunes and a music video for the track has premiered on Vevo. For the album's delay he released an extended play, Truant Wave in February 2011. He has said that his solo music is an outlet for what he couldn't do with Fall Out Boy and that it won't affect the band's future, also saying that because of it, the next Fall Out Boy album would sound more Fall Out Boy. Stump has toured in support of his solo project and his next dates are with Panic! At The Disco on their month-long US fall tour. Guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley formed The Damned Things, a heavy metal supergroup with members from Anthrax and Every Time I Die, and have released their debut album, Ironiclast (2010). Bassist Pete Wentz started an experimental/electropop band called Black Cards with lead singer Bebe Rexha and have been working on their debut album.