Artist of the Week: Panic at the Disco

Here's the deal, another week another artist, so lets get to it. So last night I was at the Honda Civic Tour. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a yearly music tour sponsored by, you guessed it, the Honda Civic. Despite the name, it's a concert I look forward to every year. Last year's show was really good with four out of the five bands that played (Cobra Starship, The Academy is, +44 and Fall Out Boy) putting on a great show. This year was no different with all four bands playing being bands that I know and enjoy. Those bands being: Phantom Planet, The Hush, Motion City Soundtrack and Panic! at the Disco. Even though they are all pretty good bands, this week is about just one of them. If you don't know, Panic! at the Disco is a band from Las Vegas that sprung up a little less than 4 years ago. After signing with Pete Wentz's label Fueled by Ramen, they released their first album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.


The album included the singles "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage", "But it's Better if You Do" and "I Write Sins Not Tragedies". Thanks to their following on Pure Volume and Myspace, the album went on to sell over 2 million copies. After numerous tours including a head lining tour, they went back to the studio to work on their next album. So on March 25 2008, they dropped the ! from their name and released their second album "Pretty. Odd."

The album made it to number 2 on the billboard charts and in just over a month, it has sold over 500,000 copies. With the recent release of a new single, "The Green Gentleman", I'm sure this album can top the last. That being said, this week's artist is Panic at the Disco with their video Nine in the Afternoon, enjoy.