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by Rudy Klapper [24 Dec 2008 | One Comment | 797 views]

Fall Out Boy – Folie à Deux
Island 2008
Rating: 3.5/5
This year, 2008, was one of change and growth in more than one respect, and the realm of emo was no different. First it was theatrical Vegas boys Panic at the Disco dropping the ! from their name and releasing an album of Beatles-influenced psychedelic-pop (Pretty. Odd.) that threw all preconceived notions about the band to the wind. Then emo grandfathers Weezer dropped the ball on their new album, hearkening back to a time …

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by Rudy Klapper [24 Dec 2008 | 3 Comments | 796 views]

All American Rejects – When The World Comes Down
After 2005’s commercial smash and new emo-pop standard Move Along, a record that gave birth to three ubiquitous top 20 singles and a legion of teenage-girl fans, Oklahoma’s most cheerful rockers had nowhere to go but down. Enlisting Good Charlotte and Smash Mouth producer Eric Valentine and releasing the album more than three years after Move Along, an eternity in the Billboard world, singer/bassist Tyson Ritter and Co. brandish their inner arena-rockers on When …