Fall Out Boy reunites after four years to tour and release their fifth studio album

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">By </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Zayda%20Rivera" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" rel="author" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zayda Rivera</span> </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - OCTOBER 15: (L-R) Musicians Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy arrive at the "Los Premios MTV 2009" Latin America Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 15, 2009 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1255093.1360010165!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/falloutboy5f-2-web.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">(L-R) Musicians Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy arrive at the "Los Premios MTV 2009" Latin America Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 15, 2009, in Universal City, California, before the bands four-year hiatus.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There doesn’t seem to be any actual fallout from Fall Out Boy’s four years off.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As promised, band members <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Pete+Wentz" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Pete Wentz">Pete Wentz</a>, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley are back from their “indefinite hiatus,” announcing Monday that they’ll head out on a reunion tour and release their fifth studio album “Save Rock and Roll” on May 7.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“When we were kids the only thing that got us through most days was music,” FOB said in a statement. “It’s why we started Fall Out Boy in the first place.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kicking off the tour in their hometown Chicago on Monday night the band will continue making stops in the states with shows planned in New York on Tuesday and Los Angeles on Thursday before heading to Europe, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1701294/fall-out-boy-reunion-tour.jhtml" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MTV News reported</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The long awaited reunion eases the panic fans felt when the band announced their break in 2009.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><img alt="FALLOUTBOY5F_1_WEB" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1255094!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/falloutboy5f-1-web.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><br /><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a four-year break, Fall Out Boy reunites for a tour and the release of their fifth studio album, 'Save Rock and Roll.'</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s weird because, if you look it up in the dictionary, ‘hiatus’ is a synonym for ‘a break,’” Wentz said in a 2009 MTV interview to clarify rumors that Fall Out Boy was done for good. “We’re on a break that doesn’t have a definite ending. There’s no ending date. I’m making a new term for it: we’re decompressing right now.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The musicians took advantage of their time off: Stump released an R&B-influenced solo album, “Soul Punk,” in 2011, while Wentz performed several shows with Black Cards, the electropop side project he formed.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile, Trohman and Hurley joined a hardcore supergroup, The Damned Things, that also included Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano and Every Time I Die’s Josh Newton and Keith Buckley.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fall Out Boy is reuniting in time to release a new album for the 10th anniversary of their 2003 debut, “Take This To Your Grave.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This isn’t a reunion because we never broke up,” the band said in Monday’s statement. “We needed to plug back in and make some music that matters to us. The future of Fall Out Boy starts now.”</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span></div>

Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy reunites after four years to tour and release their fifth studio album

By Zayda Rivera / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS(L-R) Musicians Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy arrive at the "Los Premios MTV 2009" Latin America Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 15, 2009, in Univers…

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