Just coming off a European tour at the end of August and then playing several West Coast shows throughout September, Panic! At the Disco has announced on their official Web site that they might be done with liver performances for the rest of 2007. For fans, it might seem like the end of the world, but for a band that got its start directly after all the members had just graduated high school and has been touring constantly for the past two years, the break comes as a much deserved rest.

When they were thirteen years old, Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith asked their parents for a guitar and drum set for Christmas and when the two got what they had hoped for, they began jamming out in their families’ Las Vegas garages to their favorite Blink songs and it wasn’t long until they had recruited classmates Brent Wilson and Brendon Urie to form what is today one of the most talked about bands.

Panic! At the Disco started practicing in Smith?s grandmother’s living room and fashioning songs with unusual instrumentation and shockingly truthful lyrics that would land on the band’s debut album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.” Panic! At The Disco - which retained its name from a line from the Smiths’ song “Panic” - was noticed by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz when they were all fresh out of high school. Wentz recruited the group to sign with Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen records. In an interview with DesignerMagazine.com, the band talked about their move to instant success in less than a year and their unique sound which has placed them in the indie music world spotlight.

“What happens is when one style of music starts to get popular the local bands go ?Oh my God, it’s f—ing great, let’s go and write songs exactly the same,” Ross said. “So these bands go away and write these songs and by the time they’ve started gigging three months later, it’s not the cool thing anymore. Our best advice for bands is to sound weird because it’s only weird because it’s new and different. In six months time that thing that you?re doing that sounds weird right now could be the new cool thing.”

Panic! At The Disco placed two of their songs on the internet before the album was released and played its very first show to a sold-out group of 350 fans. Clearly, the new and eclectic sound they had crafted was starting to catch on. With the release of their first album in 2005 came an invitation to open for The Academy Is… during its “Truckstops and Statelines” tour, a move that boosted their album sales to exceed that of The Academy Is’ debut album “Almost Here.”

The band’s first hit single, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” catapulted the album to number thirteen on the Billboard 200 in 2006 and eventually caused the album to sell more than a million records that same year. The band also embarked on a tour through Europe, Australia and New Zealand later that year with big-name bands such as The Plain White T’s, Marilyn Manson and Fall Out Boy. Panic! plans to release a second album in the beginning months of 2008.

“I think this time we have a better grasp of what we wanna do,” Wilson said. “From the time that we were talking about getting signed to the time we started writing the record we had a month and a half to thin about what we wanted to do. The thing is, too many bands - if they do well on their first record - they draw it out too long and I know both us and The Academy Is… are planning to get another record out each this year. We could keep touring off this album for another year and a half but I think it would be a big mistake.”

Find out when the band will be back out on tour:  http://www.panicatthedisco.com/