A few years ago, Panic! at the Disco were on top of the world, riding their awesome debut A Fever You Can't Sweat Out to platinum status and collecting an MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for the spectacularly spastic "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." One difficult second album (the lovely but strange Pretty. Odd.) and some personnel upheaval later (members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left to form the Young Veins, leaving behind frontman Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith), the group is back with Vices & Virtues, their third album. Though there are psychedelic elements left over from the experiments on Pretty. Odd., Vices & Virtues gets back into the habit of cranking out big emo riffs with splashes of goth and a lot of theater.
The album deals with a number of lyrical issues, but it also focuses on the split with Ross and Walker. As...
The album deals with a number of lyrical issues, but it also focuses on the split with Ross and Walker. As...
- 3/22/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Their mini-movie is out now; their new album is in stores Tuesday.
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco
Photo: MTV News
Panic! at the Disco officially return Tuesday with Vices & Virtues, their first album in three years and the first since the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker. But, of course, if you're a fan, you probably already knew both of those things.
What fans may not know is the message behind "The Overture," the mini-movie teaser the band posted earlier this month. Opening with a scene of frontman Brendon Urie telling two shadowy specters — who most assume represent Ross and Walker — "I'm gonna miss you guys ... looks like we're going to have to part ways" and featuring Panic! and a host of fantastical characters embarking on a journey (to points unknown), most seem to assume the clip represents the band putting their past to bed and heading out into the future.
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco
Photo: MTV News
Panic! at the Disco officially return Tuesday with Vices & Virtues, their first album in three years and the first since the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker. But, of course, if you're a fan, you probably already knew both of those things.
What fans may not know is the message behind "The Overture," the mini-movie teaser the band posted earlier this month. Opening with a scene of frontman Brendon Urie telling two shadowy specters — who most assume represent Ross and Walker — "I'm gonna miss you guys ... looks like we're going to have to part ways" and featuring Panic! and a host of fantastical characters embarking on a journey (to points unknown), most seem to assume the clip represents the band putting their past to bed and heading out into the future.
- 3/21/2011
- MTV Music News
We preview the band's third album, which recalls their Fever heyday and pushes past Pretty. Odd., in Bigger Than the Sound.
Panic! at the Disco
Photo: Jennifer Tzar/ Atlantic Records
Just who, at this point in their career, after a breakout album, a benign follow-up, and a near breakup, are Panic! at the Disco? Are they the frilly dramaturges made famous by A Fever You Can't Sweat Out? The stony, California-dreamin' canyon children that showed up on Pretty. Odd.? Or, with the release of their third album, Vices & Virtues (due March 22), have they transformed themselves once again?
Well, yes to the latter. And no. Because while Vices sees Panic! physically changed (it's their first album since the departure of guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker, it is very much an album that harks back to their halcyon days. A whirling, whooshing thing that's long on dramatics — trilling strings, chittering electronics,...
Panic! at the Disco
Photo: Jennifer Tzar/ Atlantic Records
Just who, at this point in their career, after a breakout album, a benign follow-up, and a near breakup, are Panic! at the Disco? Are they the frilly dramaturges made famous by A Fever You Can't Sweat Out? The stony, California-dreamin' canyon children that showed up on Pretty. Odd.? Or, with the release of their third album, Vices & Virtues (due March 22), have they transformed themselves once again?
Well, yes to the latter. And no. Because while Vices sees Panic! physically changed (it's their first album since the departure of guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker, it is very much an album that harks back to their halcyon days. A whirling, whooshing thing that's long on dramatics — trilling strings, chittering electronics,...
- 3/2/2011
- MTV Music News
'The Calendar' from March 29 album directly addresses the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker.
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie
Photo: MTV News
During Panic! at the Disco's Tuesday night show in New York City — the first time they'd been on a Stateside stage in nearly 18 months — they made no bones about the fact that they had put the past behind them. Free of the internal bickering that threatened to derail them, they were loose, lively and, most of all, happy.
But just because they've moved on doesn't mean Panic! aren't still dealing with the past. Their new album, the upcoming Vices & Virtues (due March 29), is directly indebted to the ground they covered on their debut, 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (some may even suggest it's that album's logical successor), full of whirring electronics, stirring strings and a definite sense of theatrics, something that was missing on their follow-up,...
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie
Photo: MTV News
During Panic! at the Disco's Tuesday night show in New York City — the first time they'd been on a Stateside stage in nearly 18 months — they made no bones about the fact that they had put the past behind them. Free of the internal bickering that threatened to derail them, they were loose, lively and, most of all, happy.
But just because they've moved on doesn't mean Panic! aren't still dealing with the past. Their new album, the upcoming Vices & Virtues (due March 29), is directly indebted to the ground they covered on their debut, 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (some may even suggest it's that album's logical successor), full of whirring electronics, stirring strings and a definite sense of theatrics, something that was missing on their follow-up,...
- 2/2/2011
- MTV Music News
Band just shot video for 'The Ballad of Mona Lisa,' the first single from March album.
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith
Photo: Jennifer Tzar/ Atlantic Records
The last time MTV News spoke with Panic! At The Disco, Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith had just premiered "New Perspective," a song they'd written for the Megan Fox horror flick "Jennifer's Body." They were fresh off a run of shows opening for Blink-182 and only two months removed from the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, who were still 10 months away from releasing their first album as the Young Veins.
So, yeah, it's been a while.
But in recent weeks, Panic! have slowly begun edging their way back into the spotlight. They've announced plans for a new album — Vices & Virtues, due March 29 — and unveiled the first single from that disc, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa,...
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith
Photo: Jennifer Tzar/ Atlantic Records
The last time MTV News spoke with Panic! At The Disco, Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith had just premiered "New Perspective," a song they'd written for the Megan Fox horror flick "Jennifer's Body." They were fresh off a run of shows opening for Blink-182 and only two months removed from the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker, who were still 10 months away from releasing their first album as the Young Veins.
So, yeah, it's been a while.
But in recent weeks, Panic! have slowly begun edging their way back into the spotlight. They've announced plans for a new album — Vices & Virtues, due March 29 — and unveiled the first single from that disc, "The Ballad of Mona Lisa,...
- 1/25/2011
- MTV Music News
It’s been three years since we’ve a new album from Panic! At the Disco, but the band is coming back with “Vices & Virtues,” on March 29. The new set was produced by Butch Walker and John Feldmann. As you may recall, Panic! At the Disco has been through a little upheaval since we last heard from them. The former foursome is now a duo: singer/instrumentalist Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith. In 2009, guitarist/vocalist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker left the group. They were replaced by Ian Crawford and Dallon Weekes for Panic’s tour with Blink-182, but aren’t permanent...
- 1/18/2011
- Hitfix
A delicious cupcake and a glass of champagne to former Panic! at the Disco songwriter and current the Young Veins frontman Ryan Ross, who turns 24 years old today. Ross first made an impression on the music world as the chief songwriting brain behind Panic! at the Disco, and his theatrical, genre-bending take on pop-punk earned the band a huge following and turned their debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out into a multi-platinum smash. The band scored a string of huge singles and even took home an MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 2006 for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," besting superstars like Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Following a gigantic tour, the band settled in to record their second album Pretty. Odd., which saw the band indulge in a more psychedelic and hook-heavy version of their sound. Dissatisfied with the results,...
Following a gigantic tour, the band settled in to record their second album Pretty. Odd., which saw the band indulge in a more psychedelic and hook-heavy version of their sound. Dissatisfied with the results,...
- 8/30/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monáe and more have provided the soundtrack for the first six months of the year, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
- 6/30/2010
- MTV Music News
Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monáe and more have provided the soundtrack for the first six months of the year, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
By James Montgomery
Bigger Than The Sound's Best Albums of 2010 (So Far)
Photo: MTV News
The first half of 2010 is in the books, and if you're a fan of oil spills, Tea Parties and vuvuzelas, well, congratulations on having the best six months of your entire life.
For the rest of us, January through June has been a bit of a bummer. If you're like me, you've found refuge from the bad news in good music, and thankfully, there's been a whole lot of that so far this year too.
If you've been asleep at the switch (or hiding out in your bunker), I don't blame you. But there's really no excuse for missing out on soul-charging, life-changing music — even if some of it really is pretty sad.
- 6/29/2010
- MTV Music News
Ryan Ross and Jon Walker emerge from Panic! at the Disco with a crackling new album, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
- 4/14/2010
- MTV Music News
Ryan Ross and Jon Walker emerge from Panic! at the Disco with a crackling new album, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
By James Montgomery
Young Veins
Photo: One Haven Music
Last month, as I stood in a half-filled Austin, Texas, dive bar watching Ryan Ross, Jon Walker and the rest of the Young Veins fumble and fuss with their vintage guitars and organs, I couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for them. When Ross' girlfriend (the Like's Elizabeth "Z" Berg) began crawling around onstage, attempting to hook up her guitar pedals for him — because, as Ross would tell me later, he had "forgotten" his — I somehow felt a lot worse.
After all, this was Ryan Ross, the same kid I had watched stalk the stage at a sold-out (and very loud) arena in 2006, the same brilliant boy-child who had written one of my favorite albums of 2008. I had such high hopes for him.
- 4/14/2010
- MTV Music News
'If you like it, then you do,' he says of new group's debut album.
By James Montgomery
The Young Veins' Jon Walker and Ryan Ross
Photo: MTV News
When MTV News last spoke to Ryan Ross, he was in the process of finding a label to release Take a Vacation, the debut disc from his new band the Young Veins.
He was confident that the hunt for a label would be resolved in a matter of weeks and that, finally, the Veins would have something (a single, a video, a tour) to show for all their hard work. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out that way.
When MTV News spoke to Ross and the Veins at South by Southwest, Vacation still hadn't been released, and their tour was only a few dates old. Yet, to a man — and there are five of them in the band these days — their confidence hadn't waned,...
By James Montgomery
The Young Veins' Jon Walker and Ryan Ross
Photo: MTV News
When MTV News last spoke to Ryan Ross, he was in the process of finding a label to release Take a Vacation, the debut disc from his new band the Young Veins.
He was confident that the hunt for a label would be resolved in a matter of weeks and that, finally, the Veins would have something (a single, a video, a tour) to show for all their hard work. Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out that way.
When MTV News spoke to Ross and the Veins at South by Southwest, Vacation still hadn't been released, and their tour was only a few dates old. Yet, to a man — and there are five of them in the band these days — their confidence hadn't waned,...
- 3/25/2010
- MTV Music News
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