Panic! At The Disco have scrapped their second album after recording a batch of songs they say are too weird.

The band told NME that the follow-up to 2006′s ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’ sounded too much like another band.

Guitarist Ryan Ross said: “We’re taking a lot longer than we thought we would. It’s almost as if we were writing two records. We did almost an entire album and then started over, so at the moment we’re trying to catch up, but we’re all really happy with the songs right now and we’ll be done by February.”

Initially thinking they were making great progress, Panic! At The Disco wrote their first batch of songs at sessions in a hidden away cabin deep in the Nevada desert last summer. Read the full article »

Word has it Panic! At the Disco scrapped almost all the songs they’ve written for the follow-up to A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (guess they’re not nearly done with it anymore). So maybe the “new song” (a helpful commenter says it’s called “9 in the Afternoon”) they played last night at New York’s Nokia Theatre will never be heard from again. Just in case, we’ve recorded it for posterity. – RS.com

Watch the performance from AOL AMP’d Up on September 24th.

• Panic at the Disco are currently working on their second album, so we asked frontman Brendon Urie what we can expect this time around. “Because we wrote the last album maybe three years ago. The sound is already different just because we’ve been progressing as musicians, and we turned on to a different type of music. It’s just automatically a different sound.” No word as to when that album will be out, but the band plan on finishing it this month. They play San Diego on Saturday.

• Last year was a big year for Las Vegas band Panic at the Disco as they took home the Video of the Year award at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.” The guys turned up for the show again this year, but according to guitarist Ryan Ross things have been kind of strange since their win. “That was amazing, but then it’s kind of weird to go right home back into my one room at my moms house. And it’s like, you guys just won the biggest award that we could ever dream of winning. And so I guess that’s when a lot of people started treating us a little bit differently.” The guys in Panic are writing their second album, which they hope to have out by February 2008.

Source: MTV Canada

After scrapping a host of songs they wrote earlier this year, Panic! At the Disco say they are finally ready to hit the studio next month to record the follow up to 2005′s ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.’ “We have about six [songs] now,” guitarist Ryan Ross tells Popeater. “We threw out a bunch and just restarted about a month-and-a-half ago.”

Among the tracks the group might just lay down in what looks to be a studio in their hometown of Las Vegas, include ‘Nine In the Afternoon’ and ‘When the Moon Fell in Love With the Sun.’ The cuts written prior to the writing restart might not even see the light of day.

“The songs we were doing when we first got off tour were really complex,” Ross explains. “We all had a talk after Summerfest, and we just decided to stop and start over.”

As for who will help the studio during the group’s October studio stint, Ross confirms it will be Rob Mathes, who they worked with on a cut for the re-release of the ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ soundtrack. “He’s a great guy, really, really great string arrangements and we thought that having someone like that around would be really helpful,” the cherubic axe-slinger recounts.

Panic hope to drop their new record in February 2008, followed of course, by a much needed live trek. “I feel we haven’t been on tour in a long time,” he says. “We’ve been writing songs [and] we’re kind of ready to go back out.”

Source: music.aol.com

Despite what you might’ve previously thought … and despite what their label’s online store tells you, Panic! at the Disco’s upcoming album isn’t their second, but rather, their third.

“We’ve had quite an interesting last nine months,” guitarist Ryan Ross said. “We were in the mountains for a while, writing songs, and we moved to L.A. for a bit, and then we decided to start over in July. So now we’re kind of trying to finish writing this second second record. Actually, it’s almost like our third record, since we were like three-quarters finished with the other one before we scrapped it.”

By now, the process of making album number thr — uh, two, has been about as well-documented as it has been confusing: Sessions started in earnest earlier this year, when Panic took up residence in a log cabin to begin writing songs, songs which the band had apparently scrapped — in favor of more stripped-back numbers — by the time MTV News spoke with them in August. But up until now, no one was really sure why the band decided to trash an album’s worth of material (though some have certainly had suspicions).

So, RyRo … care to fill us in? Read the full article »

a belated birthday to both joe trohman and ryan ross

two great tastes that taste great together.

i have to figure myself out some day as well as the rest of the world has.

“things have changed for me, but thats alright i know”…. this new panic song is all i ever want to listen to.

got a bit down the other day thinking about the beginnings and the endings of everything. but then i went to superbad and everything felt ok.

have a good weekend. go get sandy and make some bad decisions.

love

Last night Panic! at the Disco’s Ryan Ross turned twenty-one in New York City at Angels and Kings, the East Village “dive bar” owned by labelmates Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, the Academy Is…, Cobra Starship and their management, Crush.

Ross was in town between last weekend’s gigs at the Reading and Leeds festivals and this weekend’s Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle. After that, it’s back to work on the band’s sophomore disc, which is Ross’ main focus: “We’re trying to finish up in the next month, month and a half,” he says. After Bumbershoot and San Diego Street Scene at the end of September the band plans to head into the studio with a release slated for February or March of 2008.

The scene at the bar last night was suitably carnival-esque for the dramatic Panic! guitarist.

Ross’ girlfriend, Keltie Colleen (of Pussycat Dolls-esque troupe Sugar and Spice) planned the ordeal: She hung mini versions of Ross’ high school yearbook photo (which she found on the Internet) from the ceiling by ribbon, commissioned Ross’ friends to wear T-shirts sporting the image of a twelve-year-old Ross holding a fish, and planned her own midnight surprise: having fellow Sugar and Spice members wheel her out in a wrapped box.

Though Ross and his bandmates chose not to invest in Angels and Kings when it opened because they were underage, the band is now halfway to legality (singer Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith still have to hit the twenty-one milestone) and Ross says its possible the band would buy into the investment in the future. Some of the current owners were also in attendance last night: Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy, whose band is heading out on the Young Wild Things Tour with Fall Out Boy this fall, and Gabe Saporta and Ryland Blackinton of Cobra Starship, whose next album comes out October 23rd.

Source: RollingStone.com

A member of Panic! At The Disco was bottled for a second year running on the main stage at the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival today (August 25).

Last year frontman Brendon Urie was briefly knocked out seconds into the band’s first song on the main stage by a bottle thrown from the crowd.

This time, the band took the stage to an ineffectual barrage of bottles none of which threatened the singer as they opened with ‘The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage’.

“Alright, this is going better than last year,” joked guitarist Ryan Ross. “We made it through the first one.” Read the full article »

Panic! At the Disco performed at the Decaydance Fest last night in Paris and Ryan introduced one of the new songs known to us as “Back To The Streets” as Nine in the Afternoon. Watch the performance here.

Panic! At the Disco emerged from their Las Vegas studio to play Virgin Fest, and, of course, to roll through Spin‘s tent backstage at Baltimore’s Virgin Festival (Aug. 5) for a chat with Spin’s Steve Kandell following their midday performance. Uncharacteristically dressed down in t-shirts, flip-flops, and jeans, the boys of Panic! divulged details about writing their much-anticipated follow up to 2005′s debut A Fever Your Can’t Sweat Out, their newfound musical influences — “the classics,” including the Beatles and the Band, the latter, — of whom they covered in their set — and their performance of two new tunes. Watch the video interview at Spin.com.