Panic! at the Disco is a pop rock/electronica band based mostly out of Las Vegas, Nevada. The band is comprised of Brendon Urie (vocals, guitar, keyboard) and his formative years friend, Spencer Smiths (drums), which includes their schoolmate, Ryan Ross (guitar, keyboard, backing vocals).
To promote their music, the band made contact with Pete Wentz (of Fall Out Boy) using his LiveJournal web site. Impressed by means of the band, Wentz personally met with the band and signed them to his imprint label Decaydance. Under the label, the band launched their debut album, A Fever You Cant Sweat Out, which may debut at #112 at the Billboard 2 hundred album charts.
Featured in Spin magazine as their band of the day in early October 2005, accomplishing #1 at the MySpace chart, and consistently staying in PureVolumes Top 10 chart, would purely assistance develop the bands top selling reputation. An visual appeal on MTVs TRL on January 17, 2006, at the most reliable in their music video for I Write Sins Not Tragedies, additionally helped garner the band a whole lot publicity.
To date, the bands 2005 debut album, A Fever you Cant Sweat Out has offered over 750,000 sets. The band is recently headlining a North American summer time journey with The Dresden Dolls and The Hush Sound, a band additionally signed to Decaydance.
