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Hey all! It’s been quite a while since an update, so here’s some big news for you. We at FOBAT have spent our entire winter break grinding on making our website more professional, useful, and filled with content.

For perspective, we meet regularly for hours doing research and collecting information on the bands we plan on archiving… However, much of that archiving wasn’t getting done. Some brutal honesty: Finding lost media isn’t hard. Archiving it on a mass scale is, and it’s not nearly as fun. But with the surplus of info we have, we don’t want to gatekeep, so that hard work must be done. Here’s what we’ve tackled so far:

• We’ve completely reorganized the way our pages are set up on here. There used to be a heavy focus on articles about bands, but we are prioritizing the archived content first now.
• Updated a few descriptions, internal documents, and pages, such as our HUNTS page.
• Created pages for Knockout and 504 Plan, two bands very close to FOB in the TTTYG era. Knockout has an article, 504 Plan’s is in progress.
• Created a media submission form so anyone can submit media to our archive.
• Updated our Google Drive to be far more organized (still a lot of work to be done, frankly, but it is getting better).

So what are we tackling next?

• Our number one goal is to keep uploading more band content and making more pages. It takes time. We’re going to focus on actual Fall Out Boy stuff once we finish fixing up the pages we currently have.
• Fixing/updating a few pages. Our STAFF and ABOUT pages need some clean-up.
• We’re working on planning another trip to Chicago. Yeah, we never wrote about the first one… WE’LL GET TO IT!
• We’re working with a ton of different guys in the scene who have various audio, video, and photos that need digitized. Can’t be much more specific about that yet. Also working on doing more interviews!
• Making more long-form content. We still will eventually make that PDI search video for anyone interested. We have a few other ideas brewing, too.
• A big surprise coming in the next couple of months… We are VERY excited to share it with you all. 😉

As always, we’re pretty active in our Discord server, so join us to get even more involved! Here’s to even more progress and archiving!

-Joey

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!

Slides to follow along

What is Public Display of Infection?

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