Listening to: The Young Veins–and not Panic! at the Disco.
I was a huge fan of Panic at the Disco around two years ago. I started liking them right in between their first and second albums, and just in time for me to blow money on a concert ticket just so I could stand in the midst of hoodie-clad tweens, most likely virgins, who still found it exciting and risque whenever Brendon Urie yelped “Faster! Faster!” in the song “Lying is the Most Fun”. You could tell from the way they yelped along.
But sometime last year the band split up due to creative differences, with Urie and Spencer Smith staying as Panic! at the Disco (and putting that godforsaken exclamation point back in, for heaven knows what reason), and Ryan Ross and Jon Walker finding three other guys and forming The Young Veins. The two acts have since each put out their own music: P!aTD’s “New Perspective”, from the film Jennifer’s Body, and The Young Veins’ album Take a Vacation. (more…)
