Patrick Stump

In January 2010 Patrick Stump, known as the lead singer for the rock band Fall Out Boy, announced that he was working on a self written, performed and produced solo album called Soul Punk, to be released in 2011. On July 25, 2011 Stump announced an official release date of October 18 for Soul Punk, releasing a remix of a Soul Punk song "This City" featuring Lupe Fiasco to iTunes the day after the announcement.

Stump explained that he named the album Soul Punk because he wanted to contribute to the musical vernacular of both. "I'm just as pissed off as I was while screaming in punk bands, but I feel like I'm directing it into something positive and centered around love." He has created a video on his website that shows him playing numerous instruments, starting with drum kit then adding more such as synthesizer, cowbell, electric guitar and bass, amongst others. He has already performed a few songs live at his debut solo performance, at SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas, including "As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid" and "Love, Selfish Love", that may have originally been off his upcoming solo album, but has since been included as a part of his solo debut EP, Truant Wave.

On November 29, 2010, Stump put up on his website two different versions of his debut song as a solo artist "Spotlight". One is called "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)", and the other is called "Spotlight (New Regrets)". Stump claims after months he still could not decide which version he liked better and asked his fans to vote in the poll, also on his website, for the version of the single they liked better and wanted to see on the album. The polls closed leading toward "Spotlight (Oh New Regrets)", however Stump has since decided to include "Spotlight (New Regrets)" on Soul Punk and put "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)" on his debut EP, Truant Wave, claiming that the votes were too close and that he felt as if "Oh Nostalgia basically needed its own record", building Truant Wave around it.

Stump released the first EP of his solo career, Truant Wave, digitally on February 22, 2011 through his own record label. The extended play consisted of songs Stump "felt strongly about but didn't have place for within the narrative of Soul Punk" and includes special guest artists Alph-A-Bit, Om'mas Keith of Sa-Ra, David-Andrew 'D.A.' Wallach of Chester French, and Driis.

On June 27, 2011, Stump wrote on his Facebook and Twitter page, "Tuesday". The next day (the Tuesday he was referring to) on June 28, 2011, Stump released a remix of a track from Soul Punk. The song titled "This City" features artist Lupe Fiasco was originally released on avclub.com and uploaded to his YouTube channel and is now impacting Pop radio.

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