Earlier this year, Fall Out Boy briefly found itself in the middle of a feud with the magazine Blender over its February cover story on the band.

Singer Patrick Stump wasn’t fond of the magazine’s portrayal of bassist Pete Wentz (as an MTV.com article put it) as a paranoid, pill-popping narcissist. Stump also took issue with a short portion of the article that said he decided to quit Fall Out Boy after an altercation with Wentz while on tour in Australia as the band was promoting its 2007 CD, “Infinity on High.” He said his quotes about the situation were taken out of context.

As it turned out, Fall Out Boy — appearing Monday at the Great Saltair — and Blender quickly buried the hatchet, with Stump saying it was a lot of fuss over nothing. Stump noted that he only shot back at Blender because he felt the article’s account of Fall Out Boy’s “secret breakup” didn’t fully explain or resolve the incident, and it might have left fans confused about what it all meant for the band.

In a late March interview with this writer, Stump sought to shed light on the near-split and put the incident in context.

He indeed decided to quit Fall Out Boy, but soon changed his mind.

His frustrations stemmed from several issues, including an argument with Wentz over a business decision he made without consulting the rest of the band and just general tensions in Fall Out Boy.

“Why was I talking about quitting?” he said. “Because we were fighting. It was a bad time for us. It wasn’t because of any kind of wanderlust. It was that we really had kind of reached the end of our ropes with each other because I think we’d been touring relentlessly for six years and not talking about anything. I think in any good relationship you have to communicate with people, and we weren’t. We were kind of relying on other people to do a lot of our, to handle a lot of our conversation with each other. And so, yeah, I think that’s the long and short of it. We’re talking to each other [now].”

Whatever happened on tour, Fall Out Boy (which also includes guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley) stayed together and in December released a new CD, “Folie a Deux.” It follows a 2005 major label debut, “From Under the Cork Tree,” which spawned the hits “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and “Dance, Dance,” and sold 2.5 million copies and the chart-topping “Infinity on High,” which featured a multi-format hit, “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race.”

But “Folie a Deux,” figured to be a test of Fall Out Boy’s staying power.

Up to now, the band had probably gotten as much attention for certain incidents involving Wentz as for its music.

Most notoriously, Wentz saw his profile jump after compromising photos of him found their way onto the Internet in 2006.

Then came Wentz’s marriage to Ashlee Simpson, the singer and sister of pop star Jessica Simpson, and the birth last November of their son, Bronx Mowgli. That relationship and Simpson’s pregnancy made Wentz a regular feature in the tabloids and arguably modern rock’s most visible star.

While Wentz continues to be a media magnet, “Folie a Deux” seems to have elevated Fall Out Boy’s reputation as a musical entity.

The album is easily the band’s most ambitious effort, as Fall Out Boy raises the ante on its music and sound.

Where Stump had been the prime creative force on “Infinity on High,” he said Wentz, in particular, came to the fore on “Folie a Deux.”

“It used to be in general I would write his melodies and he would write my words,” Stump said. “But he has expanded that quite a bit. And I think he did contribute more melodically to this record than he ever has before. I think, actually, Joe [Trohman] did as well. That’s how it became kind of a band record.”

Fall Out Boy

When: Monday at 5:30 p.m.

Where: The Great Saltair, 12408 W. Salt Air Drive, Magna

Support acts: Cobra Starship, Metro Station, All Time Low, and Hey Monday

Tickets: $36-$150, available through Smith’s Tix (800-888-TIXX, www.smithstix.com)

Info: www.thesaltair.com