Panic! At The Disco

Panic! At The Disco is back with a new album and a single to preview its fourth full-length studio album. On July 15th, the group released the official music video for "Miss Jackson," the first single off the new album, Too Weird To Live, Too Rich To Die, due out on October 8th via Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance. "Miss Jackson" features biting lyrics that tell the story of being obsessively in love with a woman who's hard to pin down. Meanwhile, the dark, gritty music video features Panic! front man Brendon Urie in a trance-like state as he wildly roams the Las Vegas area in pursuit of the illusive "Miss Jackson."

According to a press release, Panic!'s new album was produced by Butch Walker and finds the group "paying homage to their Las Vegas roots." The follow-up to 2011's Vices & Virtues marks the group's second album since Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left the lineup in 2009.

"I had all these sounds in my head," says Urie in a statement. "I just had to figure out how to get them out. So I just kept writing, writing, and writing until eventually we had all these songs and I was like, 'This is it. This is the record I want to make.' I knew it would happen, and finally it's here."

Later this summer, Panic! At The Disco will be hitting the road to promote their upcoming record with a short headlining tour at intimate venues, beginning August 4th in Norfolk. The band will then join longtime friends Fall Out Boy as their main support for the reunited group's arena tour. They promise that their upcoming tours will be as big a spectacle as the tours they've launched for their previous albums, 2005's double-platinum A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, 2008's Pretty. Odd. (which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Album chart), and Vices & Virtues, which debuted at No. 7 and racked up critical accolades.

"I want our show to be a steady stream of continuous music," Urie says. "I want to create that club feel where the music doesn't let up and the beat never stops. You came to a show. I'm going to tire you out. I'm going to make you work for it. I want to create an environment that doesn't feel like an arena. I want the audience to actually forget where they are. Then an hour later, they're like, 'Wow, what just happened?'"

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