The Las Vegas rockers are taking the revamped outfit on the road with their album Vices and Virtues — and their eerily good video, “The Ballad of Mona Lisa.”
Tuesday, Panic! at the Disco shows off its new music at the Ogden. The show is sold out.
The band’s set to play, despite Urie’s recent stage accident.
“Luckily, I didn’t break my foot, but I did have a bad sprain,” Urie said. “I usually go out into the crowd to do something acoustic. We were playing Pompano Beach and I was sprinting back to stage.
“I could feel something tear, but I crawled back to stage. I’m lucky it was just a sprain and it hasn’t stopped us from playing.”
Panic! at the Disco is one determined band, and it would take a lot more than a sprain to put the breaks on this outfit.
The indie rockers started their band in high school. The group had barely graduated when it signed a record deal.
“We weren’t really associated with any music scene in Las Vegas —it all happened organically,” Urie said. “The vision from the beginning was to have no limitations. We were listening to pop punk, but we didn’t want to copy anyone.
“We were excited about the music. We’d go to school and then practice — and we managed to graduate. We were really concentrating on writing and getting out and touring.”
Along the way, Panic! at the Disco figured out its musical formula.
“We’ve been called everything from emo to baroque pop,” Urie said. “We generally just rock. We’re really big fans of rock’s past and present.
“Our music has no limitations. We do try to convey messages that I try to tell in the stories of the lyrics, but musically we’re all over the place.”
Panic! at the Disco was at the right place at the right time, with the right music.
The band was still in high school when it recorded a few demos and placed them on PureVolume.
“We put it up there. It was a shot in the dark,” Urie said. “We even e-mailed Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. He replied and came to see us play acoustically in Vegas.
“He took us out to Del Taco and signed us to his label. It was that quick and easy.”
It may seem like an overnight success story for Panic! at the Disco, but the band paid its dues pumping out records and touring non-stop.
The group started recording Vices and Virtues in the spring of 2009. By July, long-time Panic! members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker had departed the band.
“We were touring for three years and it just got crazy,” Urie said. “The signs were there. Everyone had their own concept of where the music should go.
“We’re still on friendly terms with Ryan and Jon, but it is easier going as a twosome. We finally got in terms with each other’s musical decisions. We knew we wanted to do something different and this made sense.”
Panic! at the Disco tried some other new tricks. The band enlisted ace producer Butch Walker (Katy Perry, Pink) and composed its songs in the studio.
“We had the songs, but Butch gave us the confidence,” Urie said. “Sonically it changes song to song. We wanted to add synthesizers to the new songs, but there are always ballads. It will sound familiar with modern stuff.
“The lyrics are metaphors for the stuff we were going through. We wanted to talk about the split. But we still like to have fun with the lyrics and they still have invisible jokes.”
Now Panic! at the Disco’s ready to bring its veiled lyrics and eclectic batch of songs to Denver.
“Our live show has changed,” Urie said. “We’ve seen some acts we still love dressing up with theatrics and props — and we still like to dress up ourselves.
“The show will be a mix of the past and the new songs. Every show is a new experience, so expect a good time.”
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