(tie) 1. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock And Roll

• What It Is: A band, after a multi-year hiatus, that could have fallen flat on their collective face, instead reinvents themselves and delivers enormous hooks, top-notch vocals and musicianship, and an album stocked top-to-bottom with hits
• Why I Love It: I'm amazed that this band is able to add yet another ( Read more... )

Below, you can watch fan-posted videos of Fall Out Boy's New Year's Eve performance last night. The band performed three songs-"Alone Together," "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark" and "Young Volcanoes"-on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.

Check out the videos below, and let us know how you think they did.
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Out of all the acts who'll be performing on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest Tuesday night, very few of them could be described as rock -- you've got Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Blondie and Billy Joel, but in terms of current acts, there are only two who've appeared on the rock charts as well as on the pop charts: Fall Out ( Read more... )

Unfortunately deemed as the year of the “selfie” and “twerk”, 2013 also marks a time when radio-friendly artists actually made “good” music. Infectious, yet not overly repetitive songs from Fall Out Boy, Miley Cyrus, Beyonce and Avicii restored my faith in commercial music. As these singers rose to stardom this year, some past favorites plummeted ( Read more... )

Every year, The A.V. Club invites our regular music writers and staff to pick their favorite albums of the past 12 months. While in previous years we asked contributors to allot weighted points on up to 15 records, this year we went a more straightforward route. Writers were asked to pick their top 10 records and rank them in order, with their ( Read more... )

Fall Out Boy is listed several year-end charts of Billboard.

• Top Artists (No.61)
• Billboard 200 Albums (No.59)
• Hot 100 Songs (No.40)
• Top Rock Artists (No.8)
• Rock Albums (No.12)

28. Fall Out Boy: Save Rock N Roll Released: April 15 Chart Peak: No. 2 We said: “It’s on the Elton John-assisted title track that the band truly shine. The rousing mid-tempo track has a chorus as big as the statement it makes. Fall Out Boy aren’t actually saving rock and roll (does it need saving?), but their return to music is more than ( Read more... )

SiriusXM Hits 1 Unexpected Hit of the Year
Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up)

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