Fall Out Boy
The four members of Chicago's Fall Out Boy came together in suburban Wilmette around 2001. As Fall Out Boy, the quartet used the unbridled intensity of hardcore as a foundation for melody-drenched pop-punk with a heavy debt to the emo scene. They debuted with a self-released demo in 2001, following it up in May 2002 with a split LP on Uprising that also featured "Project Rocket". The band returned on the label in January with the mini-LP "Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girl", but by this point a bidding war of sorts was already in full swing.
