Artist of the Day: The Damned Things

As metalcore heroes Every Time I Die kick off a new tour with letlive. and Code Orange Kids this week, Fall Out Boy revs its pop engine across the U.S. It's easy to forget heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things, consisting of Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Rob Caggiano of Volbeat and ex-Anthrax, Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die and Josh Newton who has since left Every Time I Die, these big-name artists created a big sounding alter ego rooted in hard rock and punk that's worth your time more than almost everything on the radio.

Artist of the Day: Fall Out Boy

Say what you will about the quality of their members, especially about Pete Wentz, since nothing is funnier than a joke about Pete Wentz, but Fall Out Boy put out some damn catchy music in their day. Yes their most recent album, Folie a Deux, was a, pardon my french, *folie*, but From Under the Cork Tree and Take this to Your Grave still hold up surprisingly well as pop-punk cornerstones that we like to convince ourselves we forgot about. However, one would be hard-pressed to find a kid coming into his own from 2004-2007 who isn't ready to shout the chorus to "Sugar, We're Going Down" as loud as they can at the drop of a hat. Granted, after Fall Out Boy went on hiatus in 2009, it was really easy to forget about their music in general since everyone except Patrick Stump fell off the map entirely. Stump actually got the worst treatment of any of them though, eventually getting bullied out of the music industry altogether by the harsh words of music critics.