Fall Out Boy will head out on the biggest headlining tour of their career next year, with stops including several massive U.S. baseball stadiums, and they’ve marked the announcement — which arrives in their 25th year as a band — with a fantastic, back-to-basics
new single, “Aces.” “Keep the fire alive,” frontman Patrick Stump sings, fittingly enough, on the new track, “through trying times, through the slow decay and the rapid decline.” “Aces” ramps up the return to a live-band sound that began with 2023’s So Much (For) Stardust, from the tricky intro guitar riff played by Joe Trohman to drummer Andy Hurley’s rambunctious fills and blazing kick-drum work.
“It’s so cool to see the playing field leveled, where everybody can create in their bedroom on a laptop,” says bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz. “But at the same time, the 10,000-plus hours that Andy Hurley’s done on the drums — that’s just very, very hard to replicate in a test tube.”
Trohman, who has had surgery for nerve damage in his hand and previously had to miss some tour dates, “was able to record, and everything was all good with that, so he’ll be at the shows,” Wentz says.
The Twilight of the Punks Tour will hit 36 cities worldwide in 2027, with the Offspring, Good Charlotte, and the Story So Far opening for most of the North American run. The European and U.K. leg opens May 17 at Prague’s O2 Arena ; the 21-date North American run starts July 13 at in Arlington, Texas, and closes Aug. 26 in Portland, Oregon. Artist pre-sales begin Wednesday, Nov. 11, and general on-sale starts Thursday, Nov. 12.
The band will play Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 24, in their first show at their hometown stadium. “Will Fall Out Boy ever get to play Soldier Field again? I don’t know,” Wentz says. “Hopefully, but also, maybe not. So maybe we should do something that will be added to Soldier Field’s Wikipedia.”
Fans shouldn’t take too much from the “Twilight” title. “This is not a farewell tour,” Wentz says. “I do always think that at some point it’s the last thing you make, and it should be important. [But] this is not it. This is not what I’m saying at all. … The more we go into our family life and whatnot, I do know that it’s been longer between the tours and longer between the albums, and I just think it’s because we want it all to feel important, and not just, ‘Oh, they tour every three years and put out a throwaway thing.'”
Will the new song lead to an album? “After Andrew Garfield, what do you do?” Stump says, referring to the actor’s fervent public denials before his surprise return as Spider-Man. “Either I’m gonna say the truth, which is that there’s not currently an album, and it’s gonna be, ‘Well, he’s lying about it.’ … I can say honestly, currently there is no album. I’m not currently working on an album.”
“I feel like there has to be something more to complete the picture,” Wentz adds. “But I don’t know if it’s just an album. I would love to do a Fall Out Boy musical. I just wanna do something that has a slightly skewed perspective. But there’s not an album currently. There’s not an album that we’re gonna dump out tomorrow — unless Patrick has done it without talking to anybody.”
Still, Stump emphasizes that his creative collaboration with Wentz is ongoing. “People would always ask me,” he says, “‘Are you guys still writing?’ And I’m like, ‘We’re always writing…. There’s never a period where I’m not writing. There’s never a period where Pete and I aren’t talking and writing. It’s just, there’s a lot of times where you don’t have anything that you really feel like you need to share. And so we kind of landed on this song, and it was like, ‘Let’s get in the studio.’ It’s really kind of a very natural thing.”
For Wentz, the song was strong enough to break him out of domesticity. “My life at home is so task-oriented,” he says. “You’re just going to the next meal or the next cleanup. So it’s a lot harder to go, ‘Hmm, what would a Fall Out Boy song sound like in 2026? And what would our voice be like? And what would a show look like?’ There needs to be a reason for doing it. Doing it ‘just because’ doesn’t usually work for art.”
If “Aces” is particularly reminiscent of From Under the Cork Tree-era FOB, it doesn’t hurt that Stump returned to the actual guitar amps he used on “Sugar, I’m Going Down” (which recently landed in the Top 20 of Rolling Stone‘s list of the Best Rock Songs of the 21st Century). “I dug out some old amplifiers that I hadn’t played on since probably 2008 or something like that,” says Stump. “I was like, ‘Oh, wow, that sounds very 2006.’… I’m not a really nostalgic guy. I’m not a guy that gets really motivated by getting back to the past. But there was something really eerie, almost, about just playing open chords and hearing that same sound coming out of speakers. And it was a new thing, because I’m also playing it [now], and I know music theory now, instead of when I was 19.”
Wentz sees the band’s current sound as the result of a long evolution. “When we put out [2013’s] Save Rock and Roll, when we put out [2015’s] American Beauty, there were no bands on the radio at all, and pop radio was a really pervasive force at the time,” he says. “So in some ways — like when you’re giving your kid medicine and you hide it with some sugar — a band is there, but it’s kind of hidden, or it’s baked in.” By the time of Stardust, he adds, they decided they were in a new era, “a time where whatever you put out, the stranger it is or the more authentic — in a time where there’s a lot of inauthenticity — authentic stuff really cut through.”
The song’s lyrical references to staving off midlife decline are no accident. “It used to be the question, ‘Can you imagine getting on the stage when you’re 50?'” says Wentz, who turned 47 in June. “And I’m like, it’s three years away! Nobody would ask that question now. It’s so much more real of a question. There’s actually gotta be an answer.” His kids offered their own review of the song. “They all have all kinds of opinions, and have their own view of what our band was before and what the music sounded like before. They were saying it sounds like there’s a nostalgic sound to it, but that the lyrics were very 2026. And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.'”
Stump is still getting his mind around the scale of the tour, though he recalls having the same reaction when he saw the details of Fall Out Boy’s very first headlining outing, which played venues like Chicago’s Metro. “I was like, ‘This is insane. There’s no way you think we’re gonna fill those places,'” he says. “And they’re like, ‘No, that’s our gig. Trust us.’ And that’s pretty much been every tour that we’ve done.” As for this one: “The thinking is dragging me kicking and screaming, ’cause I’m like, I gotta think there can’t be that many people. But it’s pretty exciting.”
Wentz is welcoming the opportunity to go as big as possible. “I remember being a kid, and there was this summer — it was Terminator 2, it was the Guns N’ Roses–Metallica stadium tour — and everything felt like this big, original thing that I hadn’t seen before,” he says. “I wasn’t able to go. My parents didn’t let me go. I don’t think they let me go to T2, and they definitely did not let me go to Guns N’ Roses–Metallica. But I think this is our shot. This is our chance to do the biggest version of the whole thing, and in a pure Fall Out Boy way, throw the kitchen sink into the whole thing. This is the time to do the production that looks like the musical, or this is the time to do the inside of your brain and do it in a stadium.”
Stump mostly leaves the stage conceptualizing to Wentz. “That’s who Pete is,” he says. “That’s almost his biggest expression. It’s almost bigger to him than the lyrics, is the staging, and I’m like, ‘That’s awesome.’… When it comes to the rock star stuff, on the last couple tours … I found a lot of comfort in just being like, ‘I’m just some schmuck that sings.’ I think there’s a fun to that… I screw up and I laugh at myself. The piano stuff was so funny on the last tour. So I would like to try and contrive something like that, where I get an opportunity to just be who I am, because I think that kind of really frames the intensity of Pete’s visions.”
None of the production has been designed yet. “Whatever always usually ends up happening is we try to build the whole thing, and it’s basically papier-mâché, and they’re like, ‘You can’t tour this,'” Wentz says. “And we try to find a way to tour the thing.”
Wentz has ideas for some kind of immersive experience for fans. “We grew up on Jim Henson, on this tangible idea, and I’m a big believer that you should actually be able to walk into the world and touch the thing and feel the thing,” he says. “So I want it to feel like a universe unto itself — that when people come to Soldier Field, or wherever, you’ll be able to walk into the experience and feel like you are inside of it, and it’s something that you can only experience there.”
The state of band relations in Fall Out Boy is strong, Wentz reports, in part because the members have “allowed each other to interact as adults… We’ll be at the airport and some kid will come up to Andy and be like, ‘I started playing drums because of you.’ And in my head, part of me still pictures him as the guy that I met when he was 16 or 17. And I’m like, ‘Andy Hurley?’ It allows you the perspective of being like, oh, yeah, we’ve grown up, which is kinda cool.”
Fall Out Boy 2027 Twilight of the Punks Europe and U.K. Tour Dates
With A Day to Remember and Neck Deep
May 17 – Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
May 19 – Budapest, Hungary @ Budapest Arena
May 21 – Milan, Italy @ Unipol Forum
May 23 – Madrid, Spain @ Movistar Arena
May 25 – Lyon, France @ LDLC Arena
May 27 – Brussels, Belgium @ ING Arena
May 28 – Mönchengladbach, Germany @ SparkassenPark
May 30 – Glasgow, U.K. @ OVO Hydro
June 1 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
June 3 – Manchester, U.K. @ Co-op Live
June 5 – London, U.K. @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
June 8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
June 10 – Paris, France @ Accor Arena
June 12 – Berlin, Germany @ Zitadelle
June 13 – Łódź, Poland @ Atlas Arena
Fall Out Boy 2027 Twilight of the Punks North American Tour Dates
With the Offspring, Good Charlotte and the Story So Far
July 13 – Arlington, TX @ Globe Life Field
July 16 – Atlanta, GA @ Truist Park
July 18 – Washington, DC @ Nationals Park
July 20 – Detroit, MI @ Fifth Third Park
July 22 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium
July 24 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
July 27 – Nashville, TN @ FirstBank Stadium
July 30 – Boston, MA @ Fenway Park
Aug. 1 – Queens, NY @ Citi Field
Aug. 3 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Beach
Aug. 4 – Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium
Aug. 6 – St. Charles, IA @ Roaming Hills*
Aug. 7 – Kansas City, MO @ Morton Amphitheater*
Aug. 10 – Commerce City, CO @ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
Aug. 13 – Sandy, UT @ America First Field
Aug. 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park
Aug. 17 – San Diego, CA @ Petco Park
Aug. 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Chase Field
Aug. 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadium
Aug. 24 – Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park
Aug. 26 – Portland, OR @ Providence Park
*No Good Charlotte
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