Chicago-based punk-pop rockers Fall Out Boy have garnered a variety of MTV Music Awards and mainstream success for upbeat albums such as 2005’s “From Under the Cork Tree,” featuring the breakout hit, “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” and 2007’s “Infinity on High.”
But what’s next?
According to lead guitarist Joe Trohman, a lot, including new album “Folie a Deux” being released Tuesday.
Trohman took some time off from a sound check in Burbank, Calif., to talk about wishes for the New Year.
Here’s what he said.
Q: What can fans expect from your tour show — a lot of new songs or older stuff?
A: I love how you ask that question based on music, because I don’t know what to expect. I don’t have a crystal ball!
Actually, we play some songs from a mix of our albums and aren’t super heavy on the new material. . . . We will definitely play stuff from “Infinity” and “Cork” and songs like “I Don’t Care” and “America’s Sweetheart.”
We want to hear the fans sing along to the music. It’s all about making the fans happy.
They’re the ones that enable us to do what we’re doing in our career. And we’re thankful.
Q: What do you think makes Fall Out Boy stick together as a band amid all the stress of touring?
A: I don’t think people realize that there was a time we toured for, like, seven years straight.
That can get stressful. But we’re friends.
We do fight, but we’re friends. We like each other, and that’s what works.
We do get along and don’t fight over too much; we make sure there aren’t many petty things to fight over at any time. This industry can make you insecure, and the more insecure they are, the uglier people act.
You have to learn to deal with it the best way possible.
Q: Your album comes out Tuesday. Are you guys looking forward to it, and do you have a ritual as a band that you do every time a new album is released?
A: The album already leaked, and we were actually excited that it leaked.
You know why?
Because you get to listen to what songs fans like, who to me are the real critics, and you get to experience it before the record comes out.
As for rituals, we always play a record release show and buy the album.
This time, we are playing a record release show at the Nokia Theater in New York City, and then each and every one of us has to pick up a copy of the CD the day it comes out.
We always do.
