Andy Hurley Biography
Andy Hurley is an American musician who performs music. He plays drums for Fall Out Boy, a rock band. Hurley was a member of several hardcore punk bands before joining Fall Out Boy. He became Fall Out Boy’s full-time drummer in 2003 and remained a member of the group until its breakup in 2009.
How old is Andy Hurley?- Age
He is 42 years old as of May 2022. Hurley was born Andrew John Hurley in the Wisconsin United States of America on 31st May 1980.
Andy Hurley Family
Hurley was born in Wisconsin’s Menomonee Falls. His father passed away when he was five, so his mother, a nurse, raised him.
Andy Hurley Career
Hurley has performed with bands like Racetraitor, Killtheslavemaster, Project Rocket, xFor Death or Gloryx, The Kill Pill, and Arma Angelus which are hardcore punk and heavy metal. He played drums as a substitute on Vegan Reich’s “Jihad” EP in 1999. Hurley joined Fall Out Boy in 2003 following the recording of Take This to Your Grave and the release of the group’s debut mini-LP Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out With Your Girlfriend (2003). Hurley first filled in on a touring position as drummer for Fall Out Boy before joining the group as a full-time drummer. Hurley and bassist Pete Wentz had been friends since Hurley was 16 years old. Hurley and Wentz are in their fourth band together, Fall Out Boy. Hurley has toured the globe and enjoyed significant commercial success with Fall Out Boy.
Misery Signals, Peregrine, and Auryn have all had music released on Hurley’s record label Fuck City. Hurley served as the drummer for The Damned Things, a heavy metal group that included former members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, and Every Time I Die and released its debut album Ironiclast between 2009 and 2013 while Fall Out Boy was on hiatus. Additionally, he was a member of the Milwaukee hardcore group Enabler, which in 2012 released the full album All Hail The Void. Hurley joined the Milwaukee-based straight-edge hardcore band FocusedXMinds in late 2012 and started playing drums. Hurley denied the rumors that the band’s reunion with Fall Out Boy would mark the end of his involvement, writing on Twitter on March 12 that “I am in it for life.”
Hurley was one of the four members of Fall Out Boy who unexpectedly announced their comeback on February 4, 2013, along with an album and single. A new album by the group, Save Rock and Roll, was released on April 12 of that year. It included the lead single “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up),” as well as information about a new tour. On February 4 in Chicago, the band played their first gig in more than three years. The band’s fourth straight top 10 albums, “Save Rock and Roll,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 154,000 copies in its first week. Hurley extensively toured in support of the album with Fall Out Boy in 2013 and 2014, selling out arenas all over the world.
They worked with producer Ryan Adams for two days to record their new EP, PAX AM Days, which they released in October 2013. The band’s third Billboard 200 No. 1 album, American Beauty/American Psycho, their sixth studio album, debuted with 192,000 first-week sales and 218,000 equivalent album units. Centuries, a triple Platinum top 10 single, was the album’s lead single. Uma Thurman debuted on mainstream radio on April 14, 2014, reached her ‘Billboard’ Top 100 peak of 22, and received a Platinum certification in August 2015. Scott Crouse, James Chang, Chris Colohan (of Cursed, Burning Love, Left for Dead, and The Swarm), and Hurley formed the vegan straight edge hardcore group SECT in 2016.
The lead single from Fall Out Boy’s seventh studio album, Young and Menace, was released in April 2017. The band’s seventh album, Mania, was formally released on January 19, 2018, and it made its Billboard 200 debut at the top of the list, marking the group’s third consecutive and fourth overall chart-topping debut. Hurley appeared as himself in the first, third, and fourth parts of “The Night Begins to Shine” in 2017’s Teen Titans Go! on Cartoon Network with his bandmates. Their rendition of the special’s theme song was commercially released. As the band’s first headline performance at a stadium, Fall Out Boy made history in 2018 by headlining Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Andy Hurley’s Net Worth
Andy has an estimated net worth of 14 million dollars as of 2022.