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From Under The Cork Tree comes out during Fall Out Boy’s sold–out headline tour with Gym Class Heroes and The Academy Is… The 7-week, 38-city marathon cross-country tour schedule also featured Midtown and Silverstein on select dates.  Following their U.S. headline tour and album release, Fall Out Boy will be joining the punk rock elite on the main stage of the 2005 Vans Warped Tour.  In addition, Fall Out Boy will make their national television debut on Late Nigh With Conan O’Brien (NBC) on May 10th.

The upcoming release follows the band’s 2003’s cd Take This To Your Grave released on Fueled By Ramen.  The album has sold over 200,000 copies to date and yielded back-to-back #1’s on FUSE’s Ovenfresh, “Dead On Arrival” and “Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy.”

Meanwhile, Take This To Your Grave has become an industry phenom over the past two years, holding the #1 spot on the influential Alternative Press Reader’s Chart for months.  The magazine went on to vote Fall Out Boy the #2 most under-rated band of 2003, and one of “100 Bands You Need To Know For 2004,” before putting them on the cover of last August’s issue. 

Fall Out Boy has taken their “thoughtful, andrenalized punk rock...” Rolling Stone on the road logging over 550 tour dates in two years.  The band has established an incredibly dedicated fan base touring with top acts such as Taking Back Sunday, Blink 182, Yellowcard, Less Than Jake and many others. In addition, their impressive sales figures and press buzz will help catapult Fall Out Boy to the next level with From Under The Cork Tree.  States the New York Daily News, “This Boy is voted most likely to succeed.”

“From Under The Cork Tree” is in stores now on Island Records.

"It's all been unbelievable," says the group's vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jason Wade. "We didn't expect any of this, but we're so grateful to have so many people hearing our songs."

Wade is humble and soft-spoken by nature. He's also just 20 years old, which is another reason why he speaks with such awestruck appreciation for his band's early success. His introspective songs are rooted in personal experience, which is a key reason why they've connected so well to the trio's young audience.

Lifehouse, which plays a passionate brand of mainstream rock, has already toured with such rock titans as Matchbox Twenty, Everclear and Pearl Jam. The group also became an MTV staple and appeared with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.

After spending his formative years in Camarillo, CA, six-year-old Wade and his family moved to Hong Kong where his parents did Christian missionary work. It was hardly an easy, carefree life for the young Wade.

"We lived in a small village and the people hated us," he recalls. "They thought we were witches bringing trouble to their neighborhood. They lit firecrackers at our door every morning, and they actually stole our cat and ate it! I was totally scared and freaked out and I didn't have any friends."

However, Wade experienced his greatest trauma when his family left the Orient and settled in Oregon. His parents divorced when he was 12 and he lived with his mother in Washington State and then in Los Angeles. He began pouring his tangled emotions into poetry, and then into songwriting while playing his mother's guitar.

At age 15, he met bassist Sergio Andrade. Eventually, the pair hooked up with drummer Rick Woolstenhulme to form the current Lifehouse lineup. The group of teenagers had developed a strong following in the Los Angeles area, which led to a meeting with producer Ron Aniello. Several years later, Aniello introduced the band to recording artist Jude Cole, who fell in love with the band and is now its manager. Cole helped the group land its current deal with DreamWorks Records.

Learning How to Smile features the same upbeat, layered sound Everclear listeners are used to, but with more of a pop feel. The first single off the album, "Wonderful," makes it clear that despite a positive sound, the band is not necessarily singing about positive issues. Like many of his songs, "Wonderful" comes from a personal experience of the band's leader, and shows a divorce through a child's eyes.

Other tracks that use the ironic contrast between dark lyrics and bright sounds include "Here We Go Again" and "Thrift Store Chair," which talks about a crumbling relationship. As the album is entitled Learning How to Smile, one would expect to do just that while listening to it, and tracks such as "The Honeymoon Song" and a remake of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" provide a break from the depressing subjects that dominate most of the album.

Everclear will return to its hard-rock roots in the upcoming release, Good Time for a Bad Attitude, with the guitar-driven sound that helped them achieve critical acclaim with their 1997 album, So Much for the Afterglow. The album, which sold over two million copies in the U.S., had three tracks that hit the Billboard modern rock top five. It also went double-platinum in Canada and platinum in New Zealand and Australia. In 1998, the band was named the "Alternative Artist of the Year" based on airplay and the Billboard Modern Rock Artist of the Year. The band's 1995 sophomore album, Sparkle & Fade, which was their first release on Capitol, brought Everclear into the mainstream and went on to sell over one million copies. Even then, their sound was popular internationally, with the album going platinum in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Everclear has also been a hit on the silver screen. Last year, their remake of Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" was featured in the film Detroit Rock City. In the upcoming Miramax dark comedy Committed, Alexakis landed a role as a drug-addicted car thief. It would seem that Everclear has become experts at putting a positive twist on dark topics.