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Out now: Our interview with Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy. We discuss every inch of his musical career spanning over 20 years: his first ever band and the show where FOB got their name, clearing the air around decade-old FOB demo rumors, reflections on his solo album Soul Punk, his hardcore music features, and more!

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Thank you endlessly to Patrick Stump for his participation both in this interview and in our ongoing archive efforts! Despite his busy schedule, he has made time for passionate fans like us to engage one-on-one. We never intended to be an “official” archive by any means. After we reached out to the producer of Take This To Your Grave Sean O’Keefe in 2024, Patrick made the effort to get in contact with us!

SPECIAL THANKS: David Safran, Sean O’ Keefe, Dave Hoffa, Joe Edmonds, Guav The Straight-Edge Weapon XXX, the fan artists who lended their pieces, Sera, Ghoul, Mac, Muttley, Shrew, Rachel, Kirk, Ben, Jamie, Jason, Evan, Ava/Michael, Glitch, Laura, Jen, Bray, and the rest of our archive helpers!

Fall Out Boy forever!

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Hi everyone! As you can see, our detailing of Hellfest is up and able to be read, but our story detailing Chicago is still a work in progress. We are working as fast as we can, but between school, work, and other archive activities, progress always takes time.

If you would like to view the various materials we digitized at the Wilmette and Glenview libraries, click the buttons below.

All of these materials will one day be hosted on our website directly, but due to multiple factors, that is not a possibility or priority right now. We currently have limited space, finances, and time we are able to dedicate to our project, and we want the most exclusive information on our website above all else. Organizing the materials we find and uploading them takes far longer than it does to find them, so please have patience.

Thank you to the library staff at both libraries for all their support, and thank YOU for your support!

-Joey

The page for Patterson is now 100% complete. It’s the first page complete to have something in the “WEB” category, so check that out as well. Thank you all for your patience in getting these done.

Joey

If you’re wondering what our articles are actually supposed to look like finished, well now you know. Check it out here. We still have to add the audio files section and tweak a few things, but it’s basically mostly there.

Now only… how many more? o.o

-Joey

Howdy everyone! This is Joey here to give you a bit of an update on what’s going on with our website. Since our inception in June, the website has been… empty, for lack of a better word. This is because we wanted to focus on researching the basics first before we attempted to write articles about everyone’s favorite band. Now that we have a sufficient amount of information and files to be uploaded, we will begin doing this now! Expect to see a big overhaul of the website’s look and feel, plus actual content, haha. Here is a general list I’m following.

1. Making a lot of needed cosmetic changes.
2. Fully finishing articles for Pete, Joe, Andy, and Patrick.
3. Getting the actual article for FOB rolling.
4. Getting the “OTHER” directories started.
5. Working on uploading the actual media/files to the website.
6. LOTS of article writing.

This is all done in my free time outside of classes/work, so please be patient! If you’d like to help, or be more in the know about progress, please join our Discord server!

-Joey