Subject: Fall Out Boy

• To Do Tonight - 11/27

  FALL OUT BOY, 7pm Doors open at Long Beach Arena – Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach SWITCHFOOT, 7pm Enjoy Switchfoot live in concert. Bren Events Center located on the UC Irvine Campus SO CAL MUSIC LIVE ACOUSTIC COMPETITION, 8pm The So Cal Music Live Acoustic Competition is a contest to determine the best live acoustic performers in the Southern California area. It is comprised of four categories – Best Female, Best Male, Best Band and Fan Favorite. The Gypsy D

  November 27, 2007

• Last Night: Gym Class Heroes, The Roots and Estelle at The Grove

  Better Than: Breaking up with a girl friend and writing a sappy song about it...leave that to the pros. I didn't quite believe my eyes when I stumbled across The Grove's Oct. 16 concert listing a few weeks ago. As a perpetual sucker for hip hop bands, a chance to watch The Roots, Gym Class Heroes and Estelle all on one stage seemed too good to be true. Ok, so MOST of my excitement was for The Roots, but still I was curious to see if GCH and Estelle, two of Billboard's latest darlings, could pu

  October 17, 2008

• Album Review: Franz Ferdinand, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'

  New Franz Ferdinand album out today! We've got a review this week in the Weekly, but here it is, a couple days early. It's like we traveled through time somehow!Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)Bowing in early 2004, Franz Ferdinand's superb self-titled debut album hit at the exact right time. Modern American-rock radio was finally beginning to unearth itself from years of turgid nu-metal and was ready to embrace, if half-heartedly, arty indie acts such as Interpol, the Yeah Yeah

  January 27, 2009

• 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, to Headline Bamboozle Left

  We talked about the Bamboozle Left lineup a couple of weeks ago, but something seemed to be missing--namely, headliners. It's a situation that's been remedied through an announcement via Live Nation today: We've got Fall Out Boy (pictured) on Saturday, April 4, and 50 Cent on Sunday, April 5. FOB makes perfect sense, natch, and fits in right with the rest of the lineup (The Used, The Get Up Kids, The Bled, etc.). Plus, they're headlining the east coast version, too (along with No Doubt--hey, why

  February 3, 2009

• Taking Back Sunday, Deftones, Added to Bamboozle Left

  We told you earlier in the week about headliners 50 Cent and Fall Out Boy being added to the Bambooze Left lineup, and now, guess what: there's even more bands!You can "Tell All Your Friends" (ahaha, get it?) that Taking Back Sunday will be playing on Sunday, April 5. So will the Deftones. You remembers then, right? I know some kids who I went to junior high with that would be pretty psyched right now!Tickets are on sale this Saturday, Feb. 7, at noon.

  February 5, 2009

• Unknown bands battle to break out at Bamboozle Left

  This weekend, while your band is hot boxing in the drummers van, it might be worth while to put down the bong and see what more enterprising young rockers are doing. Chain Reaction in Anaheim is giving local acts a chance to take the main stage at the 2009 Bamboozle Left Festival. This Sunday, seven bands are gearing up to compete in the Bamboozle "Break Contest", which, as you can probably guess, basically amounts to an average high school battle of the bands....times a thousand. Over the next

  February 28, 2009

• The Vandals, Asher Roth, More Added to Bamboozle Left

  With less than a month to go before Bamboozle Left, a whole mess of new acts have been announced for the two day festival, set for April 4 and 5 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. Pleasantly, a couple of the acts are even from Orange County--like punk legends the Vandals (on April 5) and Irvine's The Jakes (April 4). Splendid!Also added: white boy rapper Asher Roth (pictured, whose Asleep in the Bread Aisle album is scheduled to be released next month and will feature collaborations

  March 9, 2009

• Last Night: Jimmy Eat World at Club Nokia

  Photo by Andrew YoussefLast Night: Jimmy Eat World, No Knife at Club Nokia, Los Angeles, March 5, 2009.Better than: Hearing John Mayer do his song "Clarity."Preemptive justification: Sure, we don't really cover LA shows here, but I haven't reviewed one since Jenny Lewis at the Orpheum back in October, so I think it's OK."I still like Jimmy Eat World, even though it's not cool to like them anymore." That's what photographer Andrew Youssef said when we first talked about going to see Jimmy Eat Wor

  March 6, 2009

• 50 Cent's performance at Bamboozle Left: Some thoughts

  Like most people who saw the bill for Bamboozle Left when the new additions were announced last month, there was one name among the list of nonsensical sentence fragments (sorry, band names) that stuck out no matter who you came to see....50 Cent?WTF?! Yeah, you all thought it, don't lie. I did too.But last night, as I positioned myself a healthy distance away from the stage to see the crowd react as the DJ blasted the night air with gunshot sound effects, I have to say part of me was confused b

  April 6, 2009

• [CD Review] Franz Ferdinand, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand' (Domino)

  January 29, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 31, 2008

• [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

  June 12, 2008

• [CD Review] Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' (Hear Music)

  June 4, 2009

• Locals Only

  No Doubt About It
  OMG! New Year's Day pops with excitement!

  April 5, 2007

• Hits!

  Music Revolution

  March 15, 2007

• Hits!

  Virgin Megastore

  March 1, 2007

• Kkkcuf Amerikkka

  Jan. 4-Jan. 11

  January 4, 2007

• Fall Out (Heavy Metal) Boy

  The unexpected connection between hyper-liberal metal and pop-punk

  January 4, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 10, 2006

• Talk About the Passion

  May 11, 2006

• Get Out!

  April 27 - May 4: the Slaughtahouse
  

  April 27, 2006

• Virgin Megastore Costa Mesa

  August 25, 2005

• Incoming: Second Blink-182 Show Added at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (With Fall Out Boy)

  Sometimes things happen by "popular demand." That's kid stuff. A mere trifle. A pittance. This second Blink-182 show just added to the schedule at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater? Why, that was a result of OVERWHELMING DEMAND! At least according to the Live Nation press release.It's happening Friday, Sept. 18 at the former Irvine Meadows, a day after the sold out previously announced show. Weezer won't be there this time around, but there's another pretty big band in their stead--Fall Out Boy, mar

  June 16, 2009

• Album Review: Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane'

  This album review runs in OC Weekly this week--summer guide issue!--but why wait until then? The record's out now! Yeah!Elvis CostelloSecret, Profane & Sugarcane(Hear Music)In this phase of his career, Elvis Costello seems determined to convince people he can do just about anything--jazz (2003's North), classical (2004's Il Sogno), pop duets (2006's The River In Reverse, recorded with Alan Toussaint) and collaborations with indie-rock darlings (last year's Momofuku, which featured cameos fro

  June 3, 2009

• Blink-182 coming to Irvine

  The recently reunited Blink-182 is bringing its summer tour to the Corporate Sponsored Outdoor Venue formerly known as Irvine Meadows Sept. 17. The show (and subsequent tour) also includes Weezer, Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects. I hated Blink-182 when I was a teenager, but I've grown to like some of their tunes as I get old and lame. The less I considered them a punk band and the more I thought of them as a pop band, the more I liked them. But...I saw Blink-182 a few times, mostly a

  May 15, 2009

• Travis Barker: More Hip Hop than Hip Hop

  ​Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has had plenty of side gigs over the years. Box Car Racer and 44 both featured other Blink members, while a duo called TRV$DJAM included his friend Adam Goldstein. Known as DJ AM, Goldstein, of course, was with Barker in a Learjet crash that killed four people in September, 2008, and he died late last month in an apparent drug overdose.

  September 17, 2009

• Blink-182; Fall Out Boy; All American Rejects

  September 17, 2009

• Saturday Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the House of Blues, Anaheim

  Andrew Youssef​Saturday Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the House of Blues, Anaheim; October 10, 2009. Better Than: The Creed reunion. The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, and Sunny Day Real Estate all made waves in the early '90s with their heart-on-a-sleeve lyrics and alternating quiet/loud guitars to be unfairly tagged as "emo." While bands like Fall Out Boy have sullied the genre, it is good to see these bands come back on the scene and reclaim their glory.

  October 12, 2009

• Last Night: Blink-182, Weezer at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

  Andrew YoussefNo, you da man.​Last Night: Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine; September 17, 2009.Better Than: Growing up.Hostile Territory: Blink-182 is doing a huge promotion with the T-Mobile Sidekick, and advertisements were plastered all over the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Blink-182 and Weezer both released their first albums in 1994. They're both two of the most successful "alternative rock" bands of the last couple decades.

  September 18, 2009