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Two weeks after Conan O’Brien’s triumphant return to his former home at 30 Rock, another homecoming of sorts is set to take place on his old show.

Drummer Jay Weinberg, who currently serves as drummer for crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, will sit in with Late Night with Seth Meyers’ 8G Band next month.

Under the musical direction of Fred Armisen, The 8G Band frequently invites artists to sub in for Armisen on drums. Other recent guest drummers have included Fall Out Boy’s Andrew Hurley, No Doubt’s Adrian Young, and Mudhoney’s Dan Peters.

Weinberg’s presence on Late Night creates something of a full-circle moment for the franchise. His father, Max Weinberg, was the drummer and bandleader for O’Brien’s house band.

Best known as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Max led the Max Weinberg 7 throughout O’Brien’s tenure on Late Night,...

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian celebrated his 60th birthday on December 31st with an “epic” party featuring a number of his musician friends participating in a 42-song all-star jam. Among the highlights was Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell belting out the Billy Joel classic “You May Be Right.”

The festivities at Galpin Speed Shop in Van Nuys, California, got underway when Ian entered the venue as a passenger in a Batmobile as Slayer’s “Raining Blood” played over the P.A. system.

According to Blabbermouth, among the musicians attending and/or participating in the jam session were Cantrell, Anthrax bandmates Charlie Benante and Frank Bello, Gary Holt, Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Brendon Small (Dethklok), Doug Pinnick (King’s X), Andrew Hurley (Fall Out Boy), Whitfield Crane (Ugly Kid Joe), Roy Mayorga, Robb Flynn (Machine Head), Jay Buchanan (Rival Sons), Danny Lilker, John Bush, and Joey Vera (Armored Saint).

“Greatest birthday party entrance of all time,...

Turns out Maya isn’t the only musician in the Hawke/Thurman family. Ethan Hawke is making his debut as a music artist this month in an unexpected place: iconic pop-punk band Fall Out Boy’s upcoming eighth studio album, “So Much (for) Stardust.”

The news was announced by the “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” and “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” band on Friday, via a Twitter post revealing the full tracklist of their upcoming record. Hawke is listed as a featured guest on the song “The Pink Seashell,” and the only guest on the 13-track album. Fall Out Boy — which consists of Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Andy Hurley, and the on-hiatus Joe Trohman — has promoted the album with two singles, “Love from the Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good,” released in January.

Although best known for his work as an actor on acclaimed...

Top-selling L.A. real-estate agent Tyrone McKillen, one of the marquee names at Compass, is leaving his perch there to join Official, the new brokerage co-founded last year by star agents Oren and Tal Alexander. McKillen’s move marks Official’s expansion into the Los Angeles real estate market; the company currently operates in South Florida, New York City and the Hamptons. McKillen, who has career sales topping 1.5 billion, joins Official as a founding broker for California; he is bringing along his Plus Real Estate Group team with him.

“Tyrone is the ultimate exemplification of Official’s vision, defined by the quality of our talent, depth of our expertise and level of transcendent service provided to clients across the most important markets in the world,” said Richard Jordan, Official’s CEO, in a statement. The new brokerage touts that one of the ways that it differentiates itself in the market...

Hours before Joe Trohman announced his temporary departure from Fall Out Boy, the now-trio appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to deliver their new single “Love From the Other Side.”

The performance kicked off with Patrick Stump on lead guitar and drummer Andy Hurley playing the opening riffs while bassist Pete Wentz slowly made his way toward the stage, leading a pack of emo-haired doppelgängers who ultimately formed the mosh pit.

Fall Out Boy’s performance was taped before — but broadcast after — Trohman revealed in a statement that he would take a hiatus from the band.

Now I loves me some catharsis. This past weekend I went down to New York’s lower east side to enjoy a David Bowie tribute night at The Delancey. They played the Cracked Actor documentary, had a cover band play a set exclusively from my favorite Bowie era – Station To Station through Scary Monsters And Super Creeps. It was a good time that I’m still reeling from.

With the impending conservative wave reaching its pinnacle in less than two weeks, I’ve been searching for other means to cope. Luckily I received my Kickstarter reward from backing the Black Mask Studios comic Toe Tag Riot the other day. That reward was the graphic novel collecting every bit of it including the shorts and, boy, could it have not come at a better time.

For those of you that don’t know, Toe Tag Riot is a four issue miniseries...

The Ghostbusters reboot comes with a rebooted theme song, natch. Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott teamed up for "Ghostbusters (I'm Not Afraid)," inspired by Ray Parker, Jr.'s original, which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. Parker's theme was nominated for the Best Original Song at the 57th Annual Academy Awards, but it lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from Gene Wilder's movie The Woman in Red. The boys of Fall Out Boy— drummer Andy Hurley, vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump, guitarist Joe Trohman and bassist Pete Wentz—put their own rock 'n roll spin on the track, while Elliott gives it some hip-hop flavor. Wentz tweeted...

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Since they returned after a three-and-a-bit-year hiatus in 2013, Fall Out Boy have been a different group from the cult kings they once were. After a number of years at the top of the pop punk mountain, the quartet felt disillusioned and decided to take a break, although always left the door open for a return at some point. Each band member went through his own personal evolution during the break – frontman Patrick Stump lost over 60 pounds and bassist Pete Wentz “grew up” in his own words, while Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley… had haircuts – which made their return all the more satisfying when it eventually happened.

Fall Out Boy’s two post-hiatus albums – 2013’s Save Rock and Roll and 2015’s American Beauty/American Psycho – definitely mark a shift in style from the albums which made them famous, favouring high production values, heavy beats and repetitive pop lyrics over the previous formula of raw,...

It didn't take "Centuries" for Fall Out Boy to release new music! After a three-year hiatus, the multiplatinum punk pop band regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll in 2013. Instead of making fans wait an additional three years for a follow-up, band members Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Pete Wentz released a new single via iTunes Tuesday morning. DCD2 artist Lolo appears on the track. The "Centuries" music video is coming soon. "We never had a plan to jump right back into it after whirlwind year we've had…but sometimes the song calls you," the band told its fans on Facebook Monday. "We started writing 'Centuries' while we were on tour because...

Pete Wentz's newborn son is getting a playmate! During a Kiis FM interview, Fall Out Boy's lead vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump announced that he and wife Elisa Yao will welcome their first child together in late October. "I'm about to have a kid or a tattoo. I'm like the snows of Siberia—just untouched," Stump joked of being the band's out man out. Stump and Yao tied the knot in Chicago in October 2012. Bassist Wentz has two sons, Bronx and Saint Lazslo, with ex-wife Ashlee Simpson and girlfriend Meagan Camper. Guitarist Joe Trohman and wife Marie Wortman Goble welcomed a daughter, Ruby, in April. Drummer Andy Hurley doesn't have any kids, but he does have...

Fall Out Boy is back at it, releasing a new music video for the band's latest single off of the recent album "Save Rock and Roll."

The music video to "Alone Together" made its debut on Monday. Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, and Pete Wentz appear in the video as torture victims, subject to the moves of a group of leather-clad women. The band members are shown individually in straitjackets, undergoing various forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

The video to "Alone Together" follows the same dark theme that Fall Out Boy took for the first three music videos off of "Save Rock and Roll." The music videos to "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)," "The Phoenix," and "Young Volcanoes" all focus on the band's battle with a group of women. Fall Out Boy has dubbed this music video story "The Young Blood Chronicles.

They’ve been working overtime to promote their new album Save Rock and Roll, and Fall Out Boy gave a live performance at the Y100 Miami Performance Theater.

Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman, and Andy Hurley all showed some love to their (mostly female) fans while fielding questions and playing some live songs.

At one point an audience member brought up some “Happy Birthday” balloons for Pete, who turned just turned 34. Y100’s Mack in the Afternoon also had his own surprise for Wentz.

Check out the photos as well as links to the chats and performances, courtesy of the fine folks at Y100 Miami!