Panic! At The Disco
Barely high school graduates successfully made a
full-length debut called, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. It transformed the
suburban Las Vegas teens into national emo-pop stars. The band begun a few years
earlier, when friends Spencer Smith (drummer) and Ryan Ross (guitarist). After
trying to play another group's band, they recruited two additional classmates,
guitar/vocalist Brendon Urie and bassist Brent Wilson. Together they decided to
name themselves after a line in Name Taken's "Panic." Panic! at the
Disco posted several demos online that caught the attention of Decaydance
Records, the same producer who helped make famous Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz. Even though Panic!
At the Disco had yet to play a live show, they subsequently became the first
band signed to Wentz's label.
With
their new album set to be release in late 2005, the band begun touring and soon
after, their hit single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" found its way
onto MTV and the Billboard Top 40. Pretty. Odd. released in March 2008. The
group took a hit in June 2009, when Smith and Ross left the band, and formed
their own, the Young Veins. Urie and Smith stayed together as a duo. They did
eventually fill the holes in their group with Ian Crawford and Dallon Weekes.
In 2011 the band released their third studio album, Vices & Virtues, and in
October 2013, the release of Las Vegas-themed, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to
Die! Came out.
Brendon Urie and Brent Wilson
