Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy rose to the forefront of emo pop in the mid-2000s, selling more than four million albums thanks to the band's tabloid-grabbing bassist, able-voiced frontman, and a handful of multi-platinum, Top 40 hits. Rising from the punk underground, the band made their mainstream breakthrough in 2005 with their sophomore set, "From Under the Cork Tree," and hit number one in 2007 with "Infinity on High." Shifting from the Warped Tour crowd to sold-out arenas by the 2010s, they issued a string of chart-topping albums that decade -- Save Rock and Roll, American Beauty/American Psycho, and M A N I A -- while scoring mainstream hits that served the mosh pits as well as sports stadiums. The group's four members first came together in Wilmette, a bedroom community north of Chicago, around 2001. Vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz, drummer Andrew Hurley, and guitarist Joe Trohman had all taken part in various bands connected to Chicago's underground hardcore scene.