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We caught up with Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith of Panic! At The Disco to talk about their new album, their upcoming tour and just what their parents think of their music.

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The arc of the career of Panic! at the Disco has been a wild ride. Over five years, the band went from underground darlings to massive headliners on the strength of their debut A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. Then came the difficult second album (2008′s Pretty. Odd.), the loss of the exclamation point and the splintering of the group. But now the band is back (and so is the exclamation point) with Virtues & Vices, which hits stores on Tuesday (March 22).

Vices & Virtues is being considered a return to form for the band, as it taps back into the energy and perspective of the debut. It’s full of big riffs, rugged rhythms and frontman Brendon Urie’s signature vocals and hyper-literate lyrics. But it’s not a step backwards by any means, as Urie and drummer Spencer Smith explained to MTV News.

The first single from Vices & Virtues is “The Ballad of Mona Lisa,” a lively jam with a larger-than-life chorus that taps into Panic! at the Disco’s greatest strengths.

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Panic! At The Disco – Vices & Virtues
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REVIEW.

Serious questions were asked about the future of Panic! At The Disco following the departure of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker. Being that Ross had been the vanguard of the band’s previous song writing efforts, it seemed that the remaining members Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith would need to ascend quite a summit to recover the loss. Nevertheless, they pressed on. Vices & Virtues is the third studio record from Panic! At The Disco, though it is the first from the modest duo that remains from the founding line-up.

Approaching Vices & Virtues expecting a carbon copy of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out would be a sad mistake to make. It’s a spirited, light-hearted record, and is unmistakably Panic! At The Disco – though it is hard to determine at times which version of the band they’re trying to be. There is evidence of both the frenzied Fever, and more baroque-pop inspired Pretty Odd days. Read the full article »

Interview with MTV’s James Montgomery at SXSW in Austin, Texas. March 18, 2011.

A limited amount of tickets for SXSW will be available at 7PM at the Stubb’s box office for $20.

Tickets for the US Tour (and Canada date) go on sale this weekend through Ticketmaster and Live Nation, if you couldn’t get them through the fanclub pre-sale now is your chance.

Thanks @ThePanicAttack Learned something new today.I just saw the first edit for our next video ‘Ready to Go’. Now you learned something new — Spencer’s Twitter 3/18/11

After a bit of confusion it seems the guys did film the music video for Ready to Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind). We posted a dancer’s account from the video shoot here a few weeks ago, “it will have a 20′s feel to it with various costumes and dancing sequences in the rain.”.

We thought the shoot was actually for The Overture after finding out about the short film and their plans to feature the song in it, upon it’s release we saw no traces of the described dancing taking us back to being unsure. Now it’s confirmed, no official word yet when the video is expected to be released.

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We recently got to sit down for an interview with Rhapsody at the first venue we ever played in our hometown Las Vegas. Check out the clip for a trip down memory lane and more details on Vices & Virtues.

“This has meant more than anything in the past two years,” Brendon Urie earnestly told a sold-out crowd at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Feb. 1. The Panic! at the Disco frontman’s sentiment was matched only by the excitement of the revved-up crowd of die-hard fans that turned out on the bitterly cold evening to welcome the band back into the spotlight.

Panic! at the Disco first broke out in 2005 with the dramatic synth-pop record “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out,” which has sold more than 1.8 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In 2008, the group ditched its teenage circus routine for the Beatles-esque follow-up, “Pretty. Odd.,” which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 422,000 copies.

Now, after 18 months away from the U.S. stage, Panic! at the Disco has reinvented itself again. Gone are the flowers and hippie-themed decorations from 2009; in their place is a plain black backdrop with the band logo written in a dramatic yellow script. Also missing are bassist Jon Walker and founding member/primary songwriter Ryan Ross, who left Panic! two years ago to start the Young Veins, leaving Urie and drummer Spencer Smith to pick up the pieces.

Following the departure of half the band, Urie and Smith have emerged with third album “Vices & Virtues,” due March 22 on Fueled by Ramen in conjunction with Decaydance Records. Together, the two seem to have found a middle ground between their previous releases, but the journey had left fans-and even Urie and Smith-questioning whether they’d make it.

“There were a few months of not really knowing what we wanted to do, and Brendon going through a bunch of demos from writing stuff on his own,” says Smith, sitting in the Atlantic Records dining room the day of the Bowery show. Read the full article »

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