by Thomas Laisne
January 2008

Jon and Ryan discuss Pretty. Odd. track by track, watch: Part 1 and Part 2.

“Pretty. Odd.,” the eagerly awaited sophomore album from Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen recording group Panic At The Disco, has made a stellar debut on this week’s SoundScan/Billboard 200 album chart. The critically acclaimed collection enters in the #2 spot with sales of 139,000. “Pretty. Odd.” — which follows the Las Vegas-based band’s RIAA platinum-certified 2005 debut, “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” — debuted at #1 on SoundScan’s “Current Alternative Albums” chart and #2 on the “Digital Albums” chart. In addition, “Pretty. Odd.” debuted at #2 in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, with top 10 debuts in New Zealand, Austria, and Ireland.

The album’s out-of-the-box success marks the band’s best-ever sales week, and one of the highest sales and chart debuts in Fueled By Ramen’s history (second only to Fall Out Boy). “A victory for artistic ambition over cynical careerism,” raved NME, “one of the feel-good psych-pop albums of the year.” Read the full article »

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MTV.com – by Ben Ritter

Panic At The Disco at rehearsals and wardrobe for Saturday Night Live. April 3, 2008.

NME interviewed Panic At The Disco before their HMV in-store appearance in London, watch it here.

In Rock (Japan) – April 2008
Credit: shiola_shiola @ LJ

These scans are from an older issue of In Rock magazine from Japan, they feature never before seen pictures from the cabin. Credit: shiola_shiola @ LJ

It is 7:40 a.m., the computer is locking up and after a quick restart I am up and running. Garage Band is now working, too. It is 7:45 a.m. I am beginning to get the full effect of too much coffee too quickly. So, after I get back from the bathroom, the clock strikes 7:49 a.m. I am sitting, ready to ask Jon from Panic at the Disco some important questions.

The phone rings 10 minutes early. It’s some guy from Germany and he says he has a band member on the phone. Well it’s sound check right before a show in Germany so the noise and chaos in the background was loud as can be and I hear a voice say, “Sorry man they mixed up the times.”
I ask him, “Who’s this?”
“Oh, it’s Spencer” (Smith, drummer from Panic).
“Who’s Jon Gault?” I ask.
He laughs. Thus begins our interview.

Zero Magazine: Pretty. Odd is your new album and it’s really good, but it has a different sound than your last. What were the influences on these recordings? Read the full article »