By: Daniel Kreps

There’s another new supergroup of sorts on the horizon: two members of Fall Out Boy are using their time away from the band to provide riffs and beats for a new heavy metal side project called the Damned Things. FOB guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have teamed with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano, Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley and bassist David Karon in the new band, which Ian describes to Rock Sound as “Kyuss meeting Thin Lizzy.”

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By Kyle Anderson

Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz isn’t just a friend to Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta — he’s also his label boss and friendly rival. As a result, the two have been maintaining a prank war for the past few months, culminating in a recent victory for Saporta.

Paying up on a bet he made a few months ago, Wentz got a new tattoo on his leg — a tattoo of Saporta’s face.
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By Cortney Harding

In this age of oversharing, it seems strange to think that until 10 or 15 years ago the most a fan could hope for in terms of communication from a famous artist was a signed picture from a fan club or a few minutes outside a tour bus after a show.

When Pete Wentz and his band, Fall Out Boy, started making noise in 2003, the band was noted not only for its emo-pop music but also the way it used e-mail and blog postings to forge closer relationships with fans at a time when most acts were still getting online.
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