:: Jersey Shore’s Snooki is everywhere these days — even at the Grammys, interviewing Phoenix like a good guidette. Italian-American stereotypes are funny. Because they’re true.
:: MetalSucks listed five good songs by Ugly Kid Joe that aren’t Everything About You or Cat’s in the Cradle. Wait, I didn’t know there were five good Ugly Kid Joe songs including those two.
Looks like Fall Out Boy might be breaking up. There obviously isn’t much to go on, and it’s all unsubstantiated rumor at this point — but hey, what else would you expect from Buzzgrinder?
But this isn’t the first bit of confusion regarding the ultimate fate of the band who taught chunky teenage girls to wear even more eye makeup than they already did (which is a feat). The current will they/won’t they bologna comes on the heels of Pete Wentz being all non-committal about the fate of Fall Out Boy a little while back.
It could mean that millions of people will be very happy and/or very sad — and that’s whether or not they break up. The only thing the outcome changes is the demographic.
UPDATE: NME is reporting that Fall Out Boy is on a break, but it’s an “indefinte break,” according to the band. That essentially means they’re broken up… until they all need some more money for makeup and cut-and-sew T-shirts.
Remember when Buzzgrinder was good? You know, before we jumped the shark? Yeah, we don’t either. But we are going to crack open our archives once a week anyway, to see what we were talking about around this date in the middle of the decade, now that it’s almost over and all.
:: Frantic Mantis was doing interviews. Almost forgot about that Frodus/Division of Laura Lee collab deal, what with FCI getting back together and all.
:: Pete Wentz and Brandon Flowers were getting ready to start slap-fighting. I don’t know for sure that it would’ve been that kind of fight, but it’s not like either of those dudes could punch — much less take a punch.
:: The dude from Five Finger Death Punch who disappeared not too long ago keeps denying that his stint impersonating Houdini wasn’t just a publicity stunt. Right…
Fall Out Boy vocalist — and fellow hair loss victim, judging by his mugshot — Patrick Stump was recently arrested by California authorities on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid license.
It seems that Stump was so proud of being from Chicago that he failed to exchange his Illinois driver’s license for one from California. Either that, or he was too busy playing Fall Out Boy Trail to get anything done.
Looks like he’ll be facing a $1,000 fine or six months in jail if convicted. But hey, I can relate. When I moved to Kentucky, the last thing I wanted to do was turn in my Ohio license. The real legal travesty is that there’s no charge for writing Fall Out Boy songs.
It’s good to see that The Get Up Kids are in full apology mode for making me want to stab my ears — and eyes — with icepicks. Granted, I hate to think that a band I love so much helped spawn My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy. But it’s true. They did. And they aren’t happy about it, either.
Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic recently talked to Drowned in Sound about it, and here’s a little bit of what he had to say:
Honestly, I don’t often think about the state of ‘emo.’ The punk scene we came out of and the punk scene now are completely different. It’s like glam rock now. We played the Bamboozle fests this year and we felt really out of place. I could name maybe three bands we played with. It was just a sea of neon shirts to us. If this is the world we helped create, then I apologize.
If a band gets huge and they say we inspired them, great. The problem is most of them aren’t very good. What does that say about us? I don’t know. Maybe we sucked. We at least can play our instruments.
While fielding questions on a temporary Twitter account from mindless doofsFall Out Boy fans on Sunday, Pete Wentz said that the band’s latest album “may be the swan song.” People were buzzing about the possible break up of Fall Out Boy, and tweens everywhere started dying their hair black(er) in memoriam.
Sadly, though, Pete Wentz had to go on record with MTV and say that the speculation about a break up was just that. Here’s the inside scoop from Wentz via email:
No, we’re not calling it quits, but [we've got] no future album plans right now. We can’t quit, we’re waiting to get fired.
Well, I guess I should go put the champagne back on ice.
Man, this just gets worse and worse. I was already bummed enough when word got out that Weezer might be opening for Blink 182. But now Rivers and the boys are having their once good name sullied even further with the addition of Fall Out Boy to the bill.
No dates are available yet, but they will be soon. Sadly.
Looks like Pete Wentz (and some other chick who people both don’t care or know about) will be making an appearance in the upcoming Degrassi made-for-TV movie about the kids going Hollywood — or something like that.
Personally, I preffered the Hollywood-related arc where Kevin Smith guest starred while making Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh? Yeah, that’s right. I liked it. I like the show. Does that mean I caught the gays? Probably. Or at least that melodramatic teenage girl disease. That’s what my wife tells me, anyway.
Fall Out Boy vocalist — and fellow hair loss victim, judging by his mugshot — Patrick Stump was recently 
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