From Issue #23
THE SCENE
Panic! At The Disco
By: Melissa Fargas, 17
Their
name may be confused for a headline in a 1970s newspaper, but
rest assured, there is definitely nothing to panic about with
these boys. Ryan Ross, 19, Spencer Smith, 18, Brendon Urie, 18,
and Brent Wilson, 18, are just regular guys from Las Vegas with
amazing musical talent and a gift with words. Panic’s big
break came when Ryan posted a demo on Fall Out Boy’s Pete
Wentz’s LiveJournal. Ryan didn’t think anything would
come of it. “I was just like, ‘Well, I’ll post
it on here and maybe he’ll listen to it.’ It wasn’t
like a, ‘Okay, this is our chance….’”
Luckily, Pete gave the demo a listen and loved it. The boys were
signed to Pete’s record label, Decaydance Records. They
released their debut album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out,
in September 2005. For anyone who hopes to one day make it big
in the business, they advise going the electronic route: “It’s
so easy just to demo your songs however you can. You could do
it off your laptop—just put a microphone on it. Then put
them on a website like PureVolume or MySpace. Anybody in the world
can hear them.”
