FALL OUT BOY ANNOUNCES DATES FOR THE ‘BLACK CLOUDS AND UNDERDOGS TOUR’ THEIR US HEADLINE ARENA TOUR

GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR “BEST NEW ARTIST”

Island Records act Fall Out Boy has announced the dates for the ‘Black Clouds And Underdogs’ tour, the band’s 2006 headline arena tour. The tour comes to the Tweeter Center Sunday, March 19th at 6:30pm! Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at the Tweeter Center Box Office, EFC Box Office (111 Presidential Blvd., Bala Cynwyd), all Ticketmaster locations, Ticketmaster.com and Charge-by-Phone 800-736-1420.
In addition, Fall Out Boy been nominated for a Grammy Award in the “Best New Artist” Category, alongside Ciara, John Legend, Keane and Sugarland. The 48th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on February 8, televised at 8pm EST on CBS. This year’s MTV2 VMA award-winner, Fall Out Boy –recently featured on the cover of the December issue of Spin magazine and currently as Alternative Press ‘Artist Of The Year’ – was also named the “Breakout” band of the year by Entertainment Weekly and the “Breakthrough” act by People. Their RIAA platinum-plus major label debut album on Island Records, FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE, is currently #11 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

After completing their two-month sold-out headlining spot on the Nintendo Fusion Tour last Fall, Fall Out Boy is already gearing up for 2006 tour. They move up from ballroom and auditorium dates to full-out arena shows – headlining a bill with All American Rejects, Hawthorne Heights, From First to Last, and a Decaydance Records act to be named

While the album’s current single – “Dance, Dance” – continues to receive extensive radio airplay and video airplay, December was packed with key performances for Fall Out Boy. The band performed on VH1’s Big In ’05 (December 4th), NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (December 9th) and on MTV’s New Year’s Eve Special. Fall Out Boy rounded out their run with an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on January 2nd. They will head to Europe next before the headline US Tour.

FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE, produced, recorded and mixed by Neal Avron (New Found Glory, Everclear, Wallflowers) was released on May 3rd to a ««« rave review in Rolling Stone; it went on to hold the #1 spot on the influential Alternative Press Reader’s Chart for months. One week after the album’s release, the band made its national television debut on NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

“Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” a career-defining single, made it to #1 on MTV’s “TRL” countdown shortly after its debut in April, stayed in the “TRL” count?down for over 10 weeks, and was the #1 most played video on MTV. At the same time, MTV2 “unleashed” the clip with a rare all-day video premiere, and it rose to the music channel’s “Elite 8,” emblematic of the support for Fall Out Boy going back to 2004, when MTVU first ran a contest during the recording of the album. The cable network FUSE has also been influential in Fall Out Boy’s success, with the video airing hundreds of times since its premiere on “Seventh Avenue Drop.”
Chicago’s Fall Out Boy – Patrick Stump (vocals/guitar), Pete Wentz (bass), Joe Troh?man (guitar), and Andy Hurley (drums) – won over audiences on the annual Vans Warped Tour this past summer, playing to thousands of fans daily and drawing the biggest crowds each night. It was followed by their headline run on the sold-out Nintendo Fusion Tour. Critics lauded the band and their performance on the tour. The Chicago Sun Times claimed, “Fall Out Boy’s music has a great sense of urgency and depth… Fall Out Boy’s wild stage presence is also a breath of fresh air.