After two years off the stage, Panic! At the Disco was more than excited to finally bring their new album, ‘Vices & Virtues,’ to their fans at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night. Emotions ran so high that frontman Brendon Urie couldn’t stop the tears.

“Oh f—, I just cried,” he said after the band performed ‘Northern Downpour.’ “I should stop crying like a little boy.”

But he quickly overcame the sentiment and delivered an energy-packed show that was filled with the same theatrics Panic! At the Disco is known for including various costumed characters walking around with bird cages and masks on, freestanding movie lights onstage and a large funeral wreath to give the dark ambience they were going for that night. Read the full article »

Panic! At the Disco performed an acoustic set at Radio 104.5′s “Studio Session” earlier today, they played “The Ballad of Mona Lisa”, “Nine in the Afternoon” and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”. The videos are now up at Radio1045.com.

Radio 104.5 Studio Session
February 2, 2011

Thanks to znoby we have audios from the full show last night available for you guys, they are of very good quality.  He also recorded videos but they’re from further away, up in the balcony, you can stream those on YouTube.

Bowery Ballroom – Audios (Full Show)
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This entry was updated from this posted earlier today:

Here’s a few fan videos from the show last night, two new songs and a cover.
- Kill Tonight
- Nearly Witches
- Science Fiction/Double Feature (Rocky Horror cover)

Bowery Ballroom – New York
February 2, 2011

The overall theme of Tuesday (February 1) night’s Panic! At The Disco show seemed to be “Professor Layton and the Enchanted Entombment,” with a sundry of funeral wreaths hung around the Bowey Ballroom (and onstage), candelabras resting atop tables in the VIP section and a gaggle of vaguely steampunk-y lords and ladies who dutifully milled about the audience (no word on whether they were on the Panic! payroll or simply, you know, teleported in from the future).

Needless to say, all of that was rather odd … because while the mood inside the Bowery was anything but somber. The show marked Panic’s first appearance on a U.S. stage in nearly 18 months, AND THEIR first in support of the upcoming Vices & Virtues album, and everyone — from the kids crowded together at the front of the stage to the parasol-clutching steampunk gals in the balcony — was ready to celebrate. Shoot, even Panic! were in the mood to party.

“Goddamn, I’m ready. I’m so ready!” frontman Brendon Urie shouted early in the set, to much squee-ing. And when he wrapped things up by declaring, “This has meant more than anything in the past two years,” you got the feeling he meant it, because what fans saw in-between those two statements was a band finally bereft of internal conflict, lean and mean — even when they brought out a string section — and focused primarily on having a blast. Read the full article »

Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie might be forgiven for feeling a little panicky himself last night before his band’s sold-out show at Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom. Panic! would be debuting never-before-heard tunes from their third record, Vices & Virtues (due out March 29) – the band’s first since 2008′s Pretty. Odd., and their first without guitarist Ryan Ross, who left abruptly in 2009 with bassist Jon Walker to form the Young Veins.

This, in other words, would be their fans’ first taste of the new Panic!, a preview of what might be next for these platinum-selling emo-poppers. But if Urie — or fellow founding member/drummer Spencer Smith — were nervous last night, it didn’t show. Urie and Smith, along with touring guitarist Ian Crawford and bassist Dallon Weekes, were bundles of gracious energy, feeding off the ecstatic post-teen crowd and blowing through their short 13-song set with every ounce of energy that had been bottled up for two whole years. Read the full article »

The guys sat down with Artisan News for a quick interview before the show last night, watch it here.

Panic! stopped by the MTV Studios for an interview, watch the videos below:

- Panic! At The Disco Talk Song Selection For Vices & Virtues
- How Does Vices & Virtues Compare To Past Panic! Records?
- Panic! Bandmembers On Becoming A Duo
- Brendon Urie On Vices & Virtures Tracks About The Split
- Panic! On The Challenges Of Recovering From A Split

February 2, 2011

Band

#1 – RT @Billboarddotcom: Missed our live Q&A with @panicatthedisco? Watch the archived video now! http://bit.ly/gIItGp #bbpanic — 11:46AM

Brendon

#1 – words couldn’t capture how i felt tonight. it’s too sacred. i don’t think i would trade this feeling for anything. #thankyou — 1:48AM via web Read the full article »