Friday 5 September 2008

Fall Out Boy's New Release FOLIE A DEUX Scheduled for November 4th Election Day

FIRST SINGLE 'I DON'T CARE'
FALL OUT BOY HEADLINES 'ROCK THE VOTE BALLOT BASH' IN DENVER, ON FIRST
NIGHT OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Fall Out Boy's 'Beat It' nominative for Best Rock Video at twenty-fifth annual MTV
VMAs

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 -- Multi-platinum three-time MTV
VMA-winning Island Records grouping Fall Out Boy have officially announced
their upcoming new third Island record album FOLIE A DEUX, to be released on
November quaternary 2008. The band told a jammed audience about the waiver last
night at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, when they headlined the
"Rock the Vote Ballot Bash." FOLIE A DEUX was produced by Neal Avron at The
Pass Studios in Los Angeles. The first base single will be the track "I Don't
Care." Radio dates to be announced shortly.

For FOLIE A DEUX, Fall Out Boy spearheaded a politically charged group
that unveiled deep "Big Brother" type messages in order to keep and
wake a popular process. Impressively, the creative album roll
garnered over 1 meg impressions in just one week on-line across
literally hundreds of websites such as absolutepunk.net,
friendsorenemies.com, Live journal communities and many other popular music
websites, including the band's own site, hypertext transfer protocol://www.falloutboyrock.com. "This
roll-out was started to hire people and let them tell their own stories.
We came up with the beginning and the end, while the rest happened
organically," says FOB basso player Pete Wentz.

Meanwhile, Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" has been
nominative for Best Rock Video at this year's 25th annual MTV VMAs. The
worldwide cablecast takes place live from Paramount Studios in Hollywood,
on Sunday night, September 7th at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern).

Since their first major securities industry headlining North American sports stadium tour in
spring 2006, Chicago's Fall Out Boy -- Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete
Wentz (bass), Joe Troh man (guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums) -- induce
appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Spin, Blender, and Alternative
Press and have performed on NBC's The Today Show, Saturday Night Live, The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS's The
Late Show with David Letterman, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and more.




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