ARTIST: Kanye West and Fall Out Boy
TITLE: Blends, Mashups, And Remixes
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 22, 2007
RELEASE DATE: N/A

ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Please, you took one look at that cover and either a.) vomited slightly into your mouth or b.) already started downloading this mixtape of freestyles, new verses, and old Kanye songs over rejiggered Fall Out Boy tracks out of sheer perverse curiosity. Some of the tracks are rebuilt from the ground up with hip-hop beats colored in with hooks provided by Fall Out Boy’s guitars and warbling. Others are basically FOB songs left intact with some rapping dropped on the intros and breakdowns. All of it is designed to make you cringe/laugh/secretly sing along/worry for the future.
THE BEST TRACK: The “Arms Race Megamix,” which sounds like a pretty decent mixtape posse cut with some odd samples. It’s also hopefully the only time T.I. will come anywhere near a Fall Out Boy song. (Lil Wayne, on the other hand, is probably recording with them right now, the big whore.) Second best is the “Sugar We’re Going Down” remix, imagine a lite-grunge pop “Party Like A Rock Star.” (I know, I know–I’m not really dong a very good job at selling this, am I?) Worst track is most definitely the mawkish “Jesus Walks” rework, where the new FOB-assisted, guitar-led beat drops out midway through for an inexplicable (if explicably awful) acoustic take on Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Sadly it’s Patrick Stump singing it and not Kanye.
WHERE TO FIND IT: The Leak Source

Source: Idolator

Chicago based band Fall Out Boy was brought to life in 2001 and since then they have been riding high not only on the US music scene but worldwide.

Their rise to fame all began when Pete Wentz, frontman of admired hardcore band Arma Angelus joined forces with good friend and guitarist Joe Trohman and began writing pop songs for fun. It was then that the vibrant pair stumbled upon the charismatic high schooler Patrick Strump, who then auditioned as a drummer, but after discovering he had an impressive vocal range, he became the lead singer of the newly born band. Now in search of a drummer, the trio auditioned many short-lived members but after using their try-fail-try method they teamed up with an old friend Andy Hurley. At last they had found the perfect combination. (more…)

Rockers FALL OUT BOY feared for their lives during a charity trip to Africa when local bandits held up their convoy and demanded money. The band visited Uganda in July (07) to raise awareness for the Invisible Children charity, which provides healthcare, education and employment for kids displaced by civil war in the country. Bandmember Pete Wentz says, “There was one moment when I really feared for our lives. We were riding motorcycles and these local guys used barricades to lock us in this little patch of ground. They saw that we were American and thought that we should give them money for being on their ground. When they locked us in, I actually thought, ‘We’re going to die, right now.’ “Luckily we had our guide Kenny to bail us out and pay them off but that was really, really terrifying, living through something like that. It was a real Hotel Rwanda moment. “The whole experience brought our band closer together and that’s a great thing.”

Source: Contact Music

As a rule of thumb, Pete Wentz is excited about pretty much everything, so when I was talking to him yesterday about Fall Out Boy’s upcoming arena tour — which he’s dubbed the “Young Wild Things Tour,” in a nod to Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” — it wasn’t exactly breaking news that he was super-pumped to hit the road. But what was rather interesting was just closely he was following the upcoming Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of the book (which is tentatively due from Warner Bros next October (see our first look from the film here).

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Next week, Fall Out Boy will make their first appearance in Russia, at the B1 Maximum arena in Moscow. But contrary to what some of their fans have been told, they won’t be appearing at an “autograph session” immediately beforehand.

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FALL OUT BOY bassist PETE WENTZ is known for rocking the airwaves, but now the young musician — who’s recently been seen out and about with ASHLEE SIMPSON — wants to rock the runways.

According to Women’s Wear Daily, Wentz — who started his own clothing line, Clandestine, last year — is teaming up with DKNY Jeans to launch a capsule collection, set to come out in August.

The junior sportswear line includes items that will range from $39 to $298, with graphics that were reportedly inspired by Wentz’s tattoos.

For now, Wentz’s main gig remains music — emo-rockers Fall Out Boy released their most recent album, Infinity on High, in February, and are set to tour the States this May.

Source: ET Online

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz has vowed to keep quiet over his private life after his naked photo humiliation last year. Wentz was experimenting with prescription medication when revealing pictures were published online - and the experience has taught him to safeguard his privacy.

He says, “I’ve been so candid in the past, and it’s burned me. I used to speak without a filter, but I ended up in hot water. I can barely remember those years. I was taking prescription medication; I was a drugstore cowboy, mixing this with this, seeing what the combinations did. I couldn’t picture myself in two years. People would ask, ‘What are you going to do on the next record?’ And I’d say, ‘Dude, I can’t even see myself being alive.’”

Source:Star Pulse