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Fall Out Boy‘s Joe Trohman is taking the rest of the year off.

The 40-year-old guitarist shared a statement via the band’s Instagram announcing that he would be taking a break from touring for the rest of 2025.

Joe said in the statement that he needs to undergo surgery on his hand in order to avoid permanent damage to his hand.

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Joe wrote in the statement: “Hey everyone, after years of managing ongoing issues with my right hand, it’s become clear that I need surgery to avoid permanent damage. Unfortunately, this means I’ll have to take the rest of the year off from playing with the band. The silver lining is that I’m on track for a full recovery.”

According to Joe, the band will be playing all their remaining 2025 tour dates as planned and that he’s looking forward...

Fall Out Boy will be performing the rest of their shows for the year without founding guitarist Joe Trohman, who will be taking time off to undergo surgery for his hand.

The band member announced the news on Monday in a statement shared to social media. “After years of managing ongoing issues with my righthand, it’s become clear that I need surgery to avoid permanent damage. Unfortunately, this means I’ll have to take the rest of the year off from playing with the band,” wrote Trohman. “The silver...

Right Now, a web series that centered around John Goblikon, the former life insurance sales goblin turned lead singer of metal band Nekrogoblikon, is moving into podcasting.

After four seasons as a web series, the show will now become a podcast, launching on October 1.

The podcast sees Goblikon interview stars such as Andrew Santino, Pete Holmes and Adam Pally in character. The web series featured the likes of Workaholics’ Blake Anderson, Comedy Bang Bang’s Reggie Watts, Bad Friends’ Bobby Lee, If You Didn’t Want Me Then’s Beth Stelling and musicians such as Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman and Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland.

Goblikon is the lead singer of Nekrogoblikon, a death metal band that echoes Gwar and which has toured with Limp Bizkit, Dethklok, Dragonforce and Gwar.

The podcast was created by Brandon Dermer (I’m Totally Fine), Dave Rispoli (What Would Diplo Do?), and Alex Alereza,...

Comedian Andy Samberg and Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman are teaming up with Image Comics for a new superhero comic, The Holy Roller, which follows a pro-bowler turned vigilante. The comic brings together a talented team of writers and artists, including Rick Remender, Roland Boschi, and Moreno Dinisio, to create a unique and action-packed story. The Holy Roller is described as a blend of Inglourious Basterds, Batman, and the movie Kingpin, with a deeper message and emotional depth that promises to resonate with readers. Available on November 22.

In collaboration with Andy Samberg and Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman (among other creators), Image Comics is preparing to bring audiences The Holy Roller. Now, the unexpected duo will be taking their talents to Image Comics for a project with a truly unexpected premise.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Image Comics unveiled The Holy Roller, the publisher's latest superhero comic coming out through their Giant Generator Studios line.

One week after kicking off their So Much (for) Stardust tour at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Fall Out Boy have shared an updated version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” The Billy Joel original covers world history from 1949 to 1989, and Fall Out Boy’s new take continues the story from 1989 to the present, tackling everything from Balloon Boy and Harry Potter to Trump’s two impeachments, Brexit, George Floyd, and Sandy Hook. Check out a lyric video right here.

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Fall Out Boy’s founding guitarist is back in the band. On Monday, Joe Trohman announced his return to the group after taking a step away to focus on his mental health earlier this year.

“Hey everyone, I’m officially back! I want to thank everyone for the love and support while I took some time away to focus on my brain and get healthy for my family, my friends and myself,” Trohman wrote on Instagram, thanking “true gentleman and scholar” Ben Young, who took his place during the shows he missed with the band.

Joe Trohman, founding member and guitarist of Fall Out Boy, has reunited with his bandmates after a months-long hiatus to concentrate on his mental health.

The musician took to social media on Monday to announce his return.

“Hey everyone, I’m officially back!,” Trohman captioned a photo of himself playing guitar. “I want to thank everyone for the love and support while I took some time away to focus on my brain and get healthy for my family, my friends and myself.”

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The musician thanked the band’s longtime guitar tech, Ben Young, “for stepping up and filling in on the shows I missed,” calling him “a true gentleman and a scholar.

“I’m stoked to be back in action and I can’t wait to see everyone on tour this summer!

Joe Trohman has announced that he is returning to Fall Out Boy after a five-month leave of absence to focus on his mental health.

“Hey everyone, I’m officially back!” the 38-year-old guitarist wrote in an Instagram post on Monday night. “I want to thank everyone for the love and support while I took some time away to focus on my brain and get healthy for my family, my friends, and myself.”

Trohman first announced that he would be stepping back from his regular duties with Fall Out Boy on January 18th, the same day the legendary emo outfit announced their eighth studio album, So Much (for) Stardust. The record debuted in March, and guitar tech Ben Young has been standing in for Trohman during live appearances since then.

“I also want to thank Ben Young for stepping up and filling in on the shows I missed — he is a true gentleman and a scholar,...

With a trace of terror in his eyes, Patrick Stump is reliving the ultimate punk rock dilemma. If your bandmate looks like he may have just died onstage, do you keep playing? “His head hit this thing hard, and he was out,” the Fall Out Boy singer says, recalling an early club gig during which bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz took a bad fall. “I was like ‘Is he actually dead, or is he gonna wake up and be p***ed off that we’ve stopped the song?’”

Wentz – provably alive and sporting a flowing dyed-blonde mane where he’d once modelled emo’s most swooned-over fin – laughs along, recalling other show misadventures. There was the night that the stage collapsed beneath them at Chicago’s Knights Of Columbus club. The time three people showed up to watch them play a pizza parlour. Or the riots that kicked off at...

Fall Out Boy just released the new album So Much (for) Stardust, and where their last few records dabbled in a more commercial sound, the new LP harkens back to the band’s most rock-heavy days. In a new interview with Variety, Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump looked back on their evolving sound, explaining that their previous shift toward pop — specifically on the 2018 record Mania — was a result of trying to “survive” pop radio.

Guitarist Joe Trohman wrote in his 2022 memoir that he didn’t exactly love the sample-heavy Mania, so much so that he didn’t really participate in its creation. When asked if Trohman’s bristling inspired Fall Out Boy to return to rock on So Much (for) Stardust, Wentz replied,

“I feel like our thoughts on Mania were taken a little out of context. Two records before, we were making albums in a landscape that was not particularly friendly to bands,...

After going extremely viral with the recent release of its outlandishly oversized Big Red Boots — which were worn by the likes of Janelle Monaé and Lil Nas X, among others — Brooklyn-based creative collective Mschf has another stunt shoe ready to roll out soon.

The footwear, dubbed the Bwd Shoe, are a pair of sneakers in which each shoe has two openings to select, allowing the shoe to be worn either forward or backward, depending on what the wearer feels like at any given time. The shoe is predominantly made in white leather, with red suede at the heel, plus a grey stripe and black-speckled midsole.

Founded by Gabriel Whaley, Mschf is also known for creating buzzed-about items such as the Satan Shoes, in partnership with Lil Nas X, said to include a drop of human blood in the sole, and the Jesus Shoes, worn by Drake and containing holy water from the River Jordan.

Fall Out Boy appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase their latest single, “Hold Me Like a Grudge,” and took the opportunity to don theatrical costumes. Singer and guitarist Patrick Stump wore fake muscles and a curly-haired wig, while bassist Pete Wentz rocked an eye patch.

“Hold Me Like a Grudge” appears on the band’s new album So Much (For) Stardust, which drops today. The 13-track project also features lead singles “Love From The Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good.”

“Our band has been an ongoing art project...

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...

Fall Out Boy revealed the track listing for their upcoming album Friday, and fans were surprised to see that Ethan Hawke is featured on “So Much (For) Stardust,” which drops March 24.

Hawke appears on a song titled “The Pink Seashell feat. Ethan Hawke,” and as bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz explained in 2020, it’s inspired by a moment in Hawke’s 1994 film, “Reality Bites.”

“There’s this bit in the movie ‘Reality Bites’ where Ethan Hawke’s character talks about seeing his dad after he found out he had cancer. They’d talk about life and he gave Ethan’s character a pink seashell to help explain things,” Wentz told NME.

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Fall Out Boy’s song titles have become less and less unhinged with each passing album, but the tracklist for their forthcoming eighth record So Much (For) Stardust suggests that they still have that weird sparkle in them.

The 13-track project, arriving March 24, will feature the lead singles “Love From The Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good.” The rest of the tracklist is littered with titles like “Baby Annihilation,” “Flu Game,” “Heaven, Iowa,” “The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years),” “I Am My Own Muse,” and “The Pink Seashell,” which features...

Fall Out Boy has announced a series of upcoming 2023 tour dates. Starting in June, the band will perform in support of their new album So Much (for) Stardust.

The new LP is scheduled to be released on March 24. It includes the singles “Love From the Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good.”

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Throughout the tour, the band will be joined by Alkaline Trio, Bring Me the Horizon, New Found Glory, the Academy Is…, Royal & the Serpent, Daisy Grenade, Carr, Games We Play and Four Year Strong.

Just after So Much (for) Stardust was publicly announced, founding guitarist Joe Trohman said that he would be “stepping away from Fall Out Boy for a spell.” The reason for Trohman’s departure remains unknown.

Fall Out Boy is a pop-punk band formed in 2001. They originated from Chicago’s hardcore punk scene.

Their debut album, Take This to...

Fall Out Boy have released a new song, “Heartbreak Feels So Good,” which will appear on the pop-punk outfit’s next album, So Much (For) Stardust, out March 24.

The record arrives with an accompanying music video that began as a prank but didn’t exactly go as planned. “You’re gonna jump out of the van and grab me or something?” Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo asks Pete Wentz, confirming their plan with deep uncertainty. “I am not really sure about this.”

When they hop out to grab him, their scheme is uncovered,...

Phoebe Bridgers has confirmed she is not engaged while discussing a new song by her band boygenius.

Back in November, Bridgers and Normal Peoplestar Paul Mescal were rumoured to be engaged. However, their fans now believe they have broken up.

boygenius are a three piece supergroup made up of solo artists Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker.

On Wednesday (18 January), the band announced the record, and shared three new songs from the forthcoming album.

“The record is out 31 March and three songs are out now,” they wrote on Instagram.

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While discussing the new album in an interview with Rolling Stone, Bridgers explained that one of the forthcoming singles from the new record, “Revolution O” is about “falling in love online.”

“With the attention span of being in lockdown, it was just really beautiful,” Bridgers said.

Mescal and Bridgers began...

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.

Brenda Edwards, the mother of the late Jamal Edwards, has revealed that Ed Sheeran spent time at her family’s house following her son’s death.

DJ and music entrepreneur Edwards, who was awarded an MBE for his contribution to the music industry, died on 20 February last year, aged 31.

Now, almost a year after his death, his mother Brenda Edwards has recalled how the singer helped her and the family in the weeks following Jamal’s death.

“When Jamal passed he [Sheeran] was literally at my house with me and Tanisha [her daughter] for a whole week just looking after us,” said Edwards while being interviewed on Good Morning Britain ahead of the anniversary of his death.

"There wasn’t anything that he wasn’t sorting out and doing if we needed anything, and everybody has been so, so wonderful and so supportive,” she added.

To honour the anniversary of his death, Sheeran...

Adam Lambert has shared an unenthusiastic response to the suggestion that Theo James should play George Michael in a future biopic.

James, who starred in the most recent season of The White Lotus, appeared on the Bravo talk show Watch What Happens Live last week.

Sat next to co-star Meghann Fahy, James responded to a question about whether he’d be interested in playing the pop star in a possible movie about his life.

“Oh yeah, I would love that, he’s an icon,” he replied. “He’s a lot of Greek, and I’m a lot of Greek. Put that Greek together, and you get falafel.”

However, when the online publication The Advocate shared the story on social media, frequent Queen collaborator Lambert didn’t hesitate to share his feelings about the possible casting.

“Yay another straight man playing a gay icon,” he commented on Tuesday (17 January), adding an...

Fall Out Boy’s guitarist, Joe Trohman has announced he’s taking a break from the band due to mental health reasons.

The guitarist shared the news on a post via Instagram on Thursday morning (19 January).

The post comes ahead of the band’s forthcoming album release, So Much (for) Stardust, due in March.

“I can tell you unequivocally that burning out is dreadful,” wrote the 38-year-old musician, explaining his decision.

“Without disclosing the details, I must tell you that my mental health has rapidly deteriorated over the past several years,” he wrote.

“So to avoid fading away and never returning, I will be taking a break from work, which regrettably includes stepping away from Fall Out Boy for a spell.”

He continued: “It pains me to make this decision, especially when we’re releasing a new album that fills me with great pride.”

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On the same day that Fall Out Boy shared news of their first album in five years, founding guitarist Joe Trohman shared a post on social media announcing that he will be taking a break from the band.

“Without divulging all the details, I must disclose that my mental health has rapidly deteriorated over the past several years,” Trohman said in a message on Fall Out Boy’s official Instagram. “So, to avoid fading away and never returning, I will be taking a break from work which regrettably includes stepping...

"Heavy Metal", the illustrated sci-fi, fantasy and horror magazine commemorates the start of its 46th year with a brand new "Volume 2", #1 issue, available February 22, 2023, featuring original stories by Joe Trohman, Brian Posehn, Matthew Medney, Didier Tarquin, Lyse Tarquin, Chris Anderson and Joe Harris, with art by Scott Koblish, German Ponce, Federico Pietrobon, the Tarquins, Santa Fung, Chris Anderson, and covers by Peach Momoko, Tehani Farr:

"...Whatnot Publishing is a collaboration between live streaming sales platform Whatnot, Inc. and Starburns Industries Press, who earlier this year bought 'Heavy Metal Magazine' and related titles. 

"And now the previously planned 'Heavy Metal Magazine' #321 is now 'Heavy Metal Volume 2 #1..."

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Featuring the latest adventure of two brothers (one of whom is a robot) traveling treacherous lands as they seek to reclaim their family fortune, Vasator and Crunch: Into the Valley of Ash is one of several comic book stories showcased in Heavy Metal Magazine #319, and with the new issue out now, we've been provided with an exclusive preview of the new Vasator and Crunch story to share with Daily Dead readers!

Below, you can read our exclusive preview of Vasator and Crunch: Into the Valley of Ash, which was written and created by David Erwin and features artwork by Andrea Milano, lettering by Saida Temofonte, and editing by Morgan Rosenblum.

To learn more about Heavy Metal Magazine #319, visit:

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Vasator and Crunch: What if Conan the Barbarian had a younger brother, and he happens to be a robot? Well, you end up with the story of Vasastor and Crunch.

Joe Trohman’s new memoir, None of This Rocks: A Memoir, is a funny, sometimes dark, ultra-honest confessional from Fall Out Boy’s co-founder and lead guitarist. In this excerpt, he gives a detailed account of the formation of his band.

Many people know the story, so I think it’s wise that I tell it with brevity. Pete Wentz and I wanted to start a pop-punk band. Not only were we fans of the genre, but that particular music scene seemed to be budding in its own revitalized fashion,...

“I am a pretty normal guy in a very extraordinary situation, that I’m still trying to navigate,” says Fall Out Boy co-founder and lead guitarist Joe Trohman, whose first book, None of This Rocks, is out on Sept. 13.

It’s a very different kind of rock memoir from most, offering a darkly funny, revealing, and relentlessly neurotic look at his own story and his band’s rise. We learn about his rough relationship with his mom, who endured personality changes after the removal of a benign brain tumor, and his battles with drug addiction,...

As the guitarist for Fall Out Boy, Joe Trohman has been entertaining millions of people for decades, and now he's also channeling that creative energy into the world of comic books with his new series The Axe. Co-written by Joe Trohman and actor/comedian Brian Posehn and illustrated by Scott Koblish, The Axe continues with its third chapter in issue #317 of Heavy Metal Magazine (which is now available), and we've been provided with exclusive preview pages to share with Daily Dead readers!

Following a group of teenage metalheads on a journey into a hellscape brimming with deadly creatures, The Axe will contain six chapters overall, with the final chapter being released in August's Heavy Metal Magazine #320 ahead of its eventual release as a comic book series and then a trade paperback collection. Additionally, a screen adaptation of The Axe is in development at Heavy Metal.

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The current social distancing climate has artists turning to new ways of staying connected to fans, whether through Twitch or Instagram live, releasing cover songs, or in the case of Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman, dropping an entire animated series.

The Fob guitarist has released all 10 episodes of his animated series “Mondo Trasho 3042,” which were created with his friends Wade Randolph and Spencer Berman. Trohman kept the soundtrack in the Fob family, with music written by himself with singer Patrick Stump and bassist Pete Wentz producing. They considered pitching it around, but decided to release it for everyone’s stuck-at-home enjoyment instead.

The animated series follows the fictional band Mondo Trasho, which includes a murderous alien-fish creature and a robot, in the year 3042. The intro of each episode sums up the show’s tone and humor perfectly, “We’re Mondo Trasho. We’re a band. We should break up.

Celebrities took to social media on Monday to express their heartache following reports that iconic rocker Tom Petty had suffered cardiac arrest.

The 66-year-old singer was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at his Malibu home on Sunday. On Monday, reports surfaced that he had died, however those were later retracted and TMZnow claims that the musician is still clinging to his life, but is not expected to make it through the day.

“Oh man Tom Petty is gone,” singer Cyndi Lauper tweeted following initial reports of Petty’s death. “He was really great. He will be missed. Thoughts and prayers go to his family right now. Rip.”

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Carole King shared her condolences for the singer’s family, friends and fans, adding “of which I am one,” while actress and musician, Juliette Lewis, shared a video from the legend’s final concert at Hollywood...

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,...

After years of struggling with bipolar disorder, Pete Wentz has found a treatment plan that works for him - one that doesn't include a prescription. "I don't take any medication," he told HuffPost Live earlier this week. "I went to therapy ... but I think the idea that there's a one size fits all [solution] is one of those myths. Everybody figures themselves out in a different way." Now with his band, Fall Out Boy, back out on the road, Wentz is surrounded by a strong support system. "We therapize each other," he joked. "There's no shame in talking about that kind of stuff,...

After years of struggling with bipolar disorder, Pete Wentz has found a treatment plan that works for him - one that doesn't include a prescription. "I don't take any medication," he told HuffPost Live earlier this week. "I went to therapy ... but I think the idea that there's a one size fits all [solution] is one of those myths. Everybody figures themselves out in a different way." Now with his band, Fall Out Boy, back out on the road, Wentz is surrounded by a strong support system. "We therapize each other," he joked. "There's no shame in talking about that kind of stuff,...

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!

Pete Wentz plays bass in Fall Out Boy, but his real instrument of choice is a Sidekick smart phone – a device he employs to write lyrics, manage a business empire, argue with girls, check fan sites and take the occasional glamour shot of his dick. He never stops his virtuoso thumb-typing, even when he’s rehearsing for a Letterman appearance: As the rest of the band – singer Patrick Stump, lead guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley – fools around with a tricky riff from Steely Dan’s “Reeling in the...