At Home With Pete Wentz & Vienna Vienna: Making Your Own Lane

In this intimate home hang, Allison Hagendorf welcomes Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) and his newest signee Vienna Vienna for eggnog lattes, extra-fudgy brownies, and a real conversation about finding your lane as a new artist right now.

Filmed at Allison’s home, this candid, long-form chat dives into artist discovery, songwriting, influences, live show obsession, and what it really takes to break through in a saturated era—without losing your voice.

Pete & Vienna Vienna get into:

⚡️ How they connected + why DCD2 believed immediately

⚡️ Vienna Vienna’s origin story: writing, fear, and music as self-expression

⚡️ The “worship band → emo/hardcore” pipeline (and the catharsis of it all)

⚡️ Songwriting as “something important told facetiously” (mission statement energy)

⚡️ The new EP: growth since Wonderland + the sounds shaping it

⚡️ Influences: The Cure, Morrissey/The Smiths, Devo, LCD Soundsystem (and more)

⚡️ Why the live show is the thing—and how touring sharpens everything

⚡️ Fatherhood, family moments at shows, and staying grounded inside “the machine”

⚡️ From Under the Cork Tree turning 20 + what Pete’s proudest of with FOB