"Fooled By Ramen" Month: Introduction

Hello and welcome to "Fooled By Ramen" Month where in the month of April we will be taking an in-depth look on at a variety of bands under the "Fueled By Ramen" label. We'll be doing this in preparation for the new Fall Out Boy album entitled Save Rock and Roll that will be releasing later this month. Now before I get a bunch of spam mail stating "Fall Out Boy isn't apart of 'Fueled By Ramen' anymore idiot," I'd like to rebute that with a nonchalant, so what? The reason behind this is I feel that Fall Out Boy would not be where they are today without their time being apart of "Fueled By Ramen." This is where they released their first album Take This to Your Grave(2004) as well as setting up a chain reaction of artists to interact with the label, a number of which we will be taking a look at this month (most notably Paramore).

Started by a team up by John Janick and Less Than Jake drummer/lyricist Vinnie Fiorello, Fueled by Ramen opened it's doors in 1996 and had it's first success from the band Jimmy Eat World. After JEM's self-titled EP set fire across the country it yielded a huge breakthrough for not only the band but for the  label as well in 1998. They eventually set up an office space in Tampa Florida and had a few bands come through their studio such one in particular being Fall Out Boy. After Take This to Your Grave went gold Pete Wentz (then bassist of Fall Out Boy) came up with an idea with John Janick to create the subsidiary "Decaydance Records" releasing music from a wide variety of artists such as Gym Class Heroes and The Hush Sound. Luck definitely struck as in 2005 they both released the smash hit A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by Panic! at the Disco that went double platinum. Luck wouldn't ended there as they later signed the band Paramore and released the wide selling Riot! in 2007 after acquiring an office in midtown Manhattan.
But see all of this brings us to today. With FOB out of Fueled By Ramen and Panic! at the Disco slowly trying to churn out the magic they once had who do they have to really take the mantle and keep Fueled By Ramen alive? Well, with the new self-titled Paramore album dropped this month and the small little band I covered in January Fun(.) we're gonna dive a little deeper and explore just how great this label is and answer the question if Fueled By Ramen can stay alive in a changing musical market or if they will simply sink as many labels do once their musical genre's flame is gone with the wind. Either matter this should be a hugely fun month here at ROCK D3C0D3D and I look forward to sharing this journey with you! 

This week's artist will be the newest of the bunch but don't take their immaturity with the label to mean that they are not a sleeping lion ready to break through an offer a new age of musical prowess. I am course speaking of the Ohio native duet none as Twenty One Pilots and their debut album Vessel.

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