Former The Academy Is... bassist Adam T. Siska has officially joined Say Anything

The Academy Is... have unveiled details for a special hometown performance.

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New Heart for Christmas 7 is filled with suprises including a live panel of Mat Devine's (Kill Hannah) famous advice column featuring William Beckett (The Academy Is)

But he's not the only one. "What A Catch, Donnie," the third single from the band's forthcoming fifth studio album Folie à Deux features a whole case of characters singing lines from various Fall Out Boy songs. In an especially meta move, Costello handles Folie's second single, "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet." Other crooners inc...

Last night Panic! at the Disco's Ryan Ross turned twenty-one in New York City at Angels and Kings, the East Village "dive bar" owned by labelmates Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, the Academy Is..., Cobra Starship and their management, Crush. Ross was in town between last weekend's gigs at the Reading and Leeds festivals and this weekend's Bumber...