Fall Out Boy to Play Antarctica for World Record

Capping off a multi-continent tour, emo rockers Fall Out Boy just announced they will play a live concert at an Antarctic research station on March 25. After a 90-minute flight to the frozen continent from southern Chile, the band will set up in a gymnasium located in a research facility and play such hits as "Dance, Dance" and "Sugar We're Goin' Down"' before an assembled team of scientists and presumably startled snow petrels. If all goes well, FOB will gain entry into the Guinness Book of World Records as the only band to play a concert on all seven continents in less than nine months. 
The impetus behind the record-setting concert?  "Well, I was just sitting around and wrote [FOB's manager] Bob [McLynn] an e-mail saying, 'Let's be the first band to go to all five continents,' singer Pete Wentz told MTV News. "Only he wrote wrote me back, 'There are seven.'" (And who says Americans' geography skills are slipping?)
No word yet if the band will team up with Nunatek, the "indie-rock house band" at the nearby British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station, for an impromptu jam session. The question also remains if sending a tight-pantsed, mascara-wearing emo band from Illinois is the best way to reward scientists who've spent thousands of solitary hours in one of the harshest, most unforgiving environments in the world.
--Damon Tabor

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pete wentz isn't the lead singer, patrick stump is. pete wentz is the bass player.