Fueled by Ramen will print the affair with two nights of concerts in New York, and MTV.com will stream Wednesday`s show live!
By James Montgomery
Paramore`s Hayley Williams
Photo: MTV News
Fifteen days ago, Fueled by Ramen began living in the hall room of John Janick, a pupil at the University of Florida.
These days, thanks to a catalogue that includes releases by Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, Jimmy Eat World and Yellowcard (to discover but a few), an unusually strong dedication to their roster of artists and a harnessing of social media that borders on masterful, FBR headquarters is now located many stories above Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, in a space shared with the very major Atlantic Records.
Needless to say, things have improved somewhat since those dorm-room days. And on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the judge will keep both their travel and their birthday with a two-night stand at New York`s Terminal 5, a double bill that will admit the likes of Paramore, Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes. Wednesday night`s show will stream live on MTV.com, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET, but to rush off the celebration, we asked some of Fueled by Ramen`s biggest acts to think back to the day they inked their deals with the label - starting with Wednesday night`s headliners, Paramore.
"We were performing a lot of local shows, it was around 2004. The guy we were running with in Franklin [Tennessee], he was tolerant of our manager at the time, and he was like, `This guy, he has this label,` " frontwoman Hayley Williams laughed. "A couple people from [FBR] came down and watched us play older songs and newer ones - I suppose we played `Hallelujah` for them, `Here We Go Again,` I don`t know, like a number of five songs - and thank God they liked it. We were very excited. From then on, I was like, `OK, what are we release to do?` and we recorded most of those songs, and they showed up on our album, which was on Fueled by Ramen!"
The signing story of another of the label`s breakout stars, Panic! at the Disco, is a little less traditional. Fall Out Boy`s Pete Wentz discovered the ring online and rush to their hometown of Las Vegas to add them to FBR`s roster. Of course, given the label`s strong Web-based presence, it would get the design for the way they`d do business moving forward.
"We started doing demos ourselves, just on our laptop, and mailing to our personal websites, like MySpace or PureVolume, and just tried to air out links to anybody that was in a ring that we were fans of in hopes they would listen. And somehow, we got lucky enough, and Pete contacted us, so that was our first institution to Fueled by Ramen," Panic! drummer Spencer Smith explained. "Pete drove out and bought us Del Taco and listened to the songs and said that he cherished to bless us as we were driving him back to his hotel. So it all but happened within two weeks, I think, from him listening to the songs."
Help MTV celebrate Fueled by Ramen`s 15th anniversary this Wednesday, September 7, as we introduce a lively party featuring some of your favorite FBR acts, including Paramore. Check out MTV.com at 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday to capture all the action!
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