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

On a cold December morning, Beckett co hosted a trial run of Mat Devine's popular advice column for Fuse.tv in front of a live audience in Chicago. See footage here

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...