Dance, dance.
is definitely in the latter category, as evidenced by the line of people waiting outside in a light snow all day Wednesday to try to get inside the group’s sold-out show at the city’s long-running Metro nightclub.
The band is about to release its first album in five years and marked the occasion by returning to the famed club, down the street from Wrigley Field, which has served as an early homebase for every significant Chicago rock band on its way up since opening its doors in 1982. Walking up the club’s steps, said bassist Pete Wentz, remained a kind of a spiritual experience: “the closest our band has to church.
The band’s 80-minute, 18-song set surveyed the band’s two decades and showed just how far it has come musically from early songs that featured crunchy guitars and call-and-response choruses with the crowd to more sophisticated arrangements and luminous pop hooks. That included “Heartbreak Feels So Good,” a song from the new album. While some programming augmented the sound, the song sailed upward due to Stump’s vocals which remain bright and soulful.
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