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Taking Back Sunday

Taking Back Sunday performing on the Projekt Revolution tour in Boston, Massachusetts on August 24, 2007
Background information
Origin Amityville, Long Island, New York
Genre(s) Alternative rock
Post-hardcore
Years active 1999–Present
Label(s) Warner Bros.
Victory
Associated acts The Color Fred
Straylight Run
Brand New
Facing New York
Website Takingbacksunday.com
Members
Adam Lazzara
Matthew Fazzi
Eddie Reyes
Mark O'Connell
Matt Rubano
Former members
Fred Mascherino
John Nolan
Shaun Cooper
Antonio Longo
Jesse Lacey
Steven DeJoseph

Taking Back Sunday is an American[1] rock band from Amityville, Long Island, New York, formed in 1999. The current members are vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist and back-up vocalist Matthew Fazzi, guitarist Eddie Reyes, drummer Mark O'Connell, and bassist/backing vocals Matt Rubano.

They have released four studio albums, with their most successful being 2006's Louder Now which has sold over 600,000 copies and peaked at #2 on the United States' Billboard 200, closely followed by Where You Want to Be which peaked at #3 in 2004.[2] TBS has also had twelve singles, one extended play, one live album and a compilation album. "MakeDamnSure" is their highest charting single to date, peaking at #8 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2006.

The band released their newest album, New Again, on June 2, 2009.

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[edit] History

[edit] Early years

Taking Back Sunday, originally formed in 1999 with Antonio Longo on lead vocals, Jesse Lacey (now lead singer/guitarist of Brand New) on bass and backing vocals, John Nolan (now lead singer/guitarist of Straylight Run) on guitar, Eddie Reyes on guitar, and Steven DeJoseph. on drums. Their first release was the Taking Back Sunday EP. However, in the middle of recording the EP, the band went through a lineup change. Lacey left the band to play for The Rookie Lot and went on to great success with Brand New. He was replaced by Adam Lazzara, and Mark O'Connell replaced Stevie D on drums. The five-song EP was finally released in February 2001; though distributed at shows, the EP never got noteworthy success.[3]

By the time their first album was released, Taking Back Sunday would again go through a major lineup change. After Longo was forced to leave the band, Reyes moved Adam Lazzara to lead vocals and then recruited Shaun Cooper to play bass. The resulting lineup would remain in place for the first album, Tell All Your Friends in Spring of 2001.

[edit] Independent success

The band released their first full album Tell All Your Friends, on Victory Records in 2002. Tell All Your Friends gave the band a small taste of success in the alternative rock spotlight.

The album cover is a picture of an off-ramp, with an overlay of the album title and the numbers "152", signifying the exit where they met their friends. The number has appeared on every LP cover to date.

In 2003, Taking Back Sunday almost broke up when guitarist and back-up vocalist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left the band to form Straylight Run. The loss of John and Shaun put the already unstable band into a state of heightened tension. After the departure of John and Shaun, Taking Back Sunday gained their new back up singer and guitarist - Fred Mascherino, and bassist Matt Rubano.

The year 2004 proved to be successful for Taking Back Sunday, with the band opening Blink-182 and appearing on the Vans Warped Tour. In addition, their second album, titled Where You Want To Be, was released on July 27, 2004, on Victory Records. Although sounding slightly different from Tell All Your Friends, the new album managed to do well commercially. Propelled by the single A Decade Under The Influence, Where You Want To Be went on to debut at the #3 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with around 163,000 copies sold[citation needed].

Taking Back Sunday received even more mainstream exposure by appearing (on the day of Where You Want to Be s release) on late night talk shows Jimmy Kimmel Live! where Lazzara had the job of hosting Loveline, as well as contributing the song This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know) to the soundtrack for Spider-Man 2. They also contributed the song Your Own Disaster to the Elektra soundtrack, and Error Operator to both the Fantastic 4 soundtrack and its video game tie-in, where it served as Mr. Fantastic's theme. An instrumental version is also used as background music in the game. In 2007, the band contributed the song What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost? to the soundtrack for Transformers, although the song did not appear in the movie. Also, the band was featured in the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soundtrack when they covered the Descendent songs "Suburban Home" and "I Like Food" together as a medley.

[edit] Major label debut

On April 25, 2006, Taking Back Sunday released their third album, entitled Louder Now, on Warner Bros. Records. The band's comments on the album reflected the dramatic change the band had undergone in the two years since their last release. Lazzara stated that fans seemed to feel their live shows had more energy than their recordings, and that Louder Now brought more of that across. Louder Now draws its name from the opening track "Whats It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?". In fact, all of TBS's full length albums have been named after lyrics from songs featured on the album, but during a point where the titles hadn't been decided yet. Tell All Your Friends derived its name from "Cute Without The E (Cut From The Team)," And Where You Want To Be from "Set Phasers To Stun." New Again will be the first LP from Taking Back Sunday to feature a title track.

Taking Back Sunday received mainstream exposure by appearing on the late night talk shows The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation in an episode entitled What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?

In December 2006, the band released its first CD/DVD documentary, Louder Now: PartOne, featuring behind-the-scenes tour footage and four live concerts. Following months of touring to support Louder Now, Taking Back Sunday appeared in the American leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007. During the summer of 2007, Taking Back Sunday was also a part of Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour, along with My Chemical Romance, HIM, and many other bands.

On October 30, 2007, the band's former record label, Victory Records, released Notes From The Past, which featured four songs from Tell All Your Friends, six songs from Where You Want To Be, and two B-sides: The Ballad of Sal Villanueva and Your Own Disaster ('04 mix). The band then released Louder Now: PartTwo on November 20, 2007, a DVD of unreleased live concert footage from their show at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California, as well as special features such as the video for "Twenty-Twenty Surgery" that was made for Europe. The DVD was packaged with a companion CD featuring eight live tracks, two B-sides that were previously unreleased in America, and a special "Twelve Days of Christmas" track.

[edit] Departure of Fred Mascherino and New Again

In October 2008 the band announced that Taking Back Sunday and guitarist Fred Mascherino would be departing ways, this came after Fred decided to focus on his then upcoming solo album with The Colour Fred, Fred was later replaced by Matthew Fazzi[4] , who would, like Fred, provide vocals and guitar parts.[5] Mascherino went on in later interviews to reveal "There were just problems between the five of us about writing, who was going to do it and how we were going to do it, we weren't being very productive because we were fighting too much about that stuff. The band was more about cooking food than making music,"[6] the statement lead onto the band writing track "Capital M-E", which lyrics refer to Fred's departure and the comments he made after his departure.[7]

The bands 4th studio album was revealed on November 6 2008 to be titled New Again, the band revealed in the Rolling Stone the titles of new tracks; "Winter Passing", "Lonely Lonely", "Catholic Knees", and "Carpathia". They stated that "Winter Passing" was "...a slowdance like the last song at your 8th grade dance [that] moves more like an R&B tune than a rock and roll song", and that "Carpathia" will include the first bass solos in any Taking Back Sunday song. They also comment that "Catholic Knees" is ..."one of the heavier songs we've ever written", and that "Lonely Lonely" is "relentless - two and a half minutes of punching you in the face". [8] The band in the build up to the release of New Again released a number of tracks, first of which was "Carpathia", on December 21st as a free digital download to those who purchased the bands Christmas holiday set[9], with a physical limited vinyl release of the track as well as a live version of "Catholic Knees" released on April 18[10], secondly title track "New Again" as a free single download from the bands website on April 16, followed by the first full single "Sink Into Me", released on April 20, premiering on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show, and being made available digitally short after, sometime later on May 16 "Everything Must Go" was released to stream on the bands MySpace.[11]

[edit] Other appearances

Adam Lazzara lends his vocals on New Found Glory's album From Your Screen to Your Stereo Part Two in the cover song, "Love Fool". Adam and former member Fred Mascherino also appear on the song "Surgically Removing the Tracking Device" on Say Anything's 2007 album, In Defense of the Genre. Adam has also appeared on Cindy Lauper's album, The Body Acoustic, in the acoustic remake of the song "Money Changes Everything". Bassist Matt Rubano has been seen hosting Fuse's No. 1 Countdown.

[edit] Members

  • Eddie Reyes - Guitar (1999 - Present)
  • Mark O'Connell - Drums (2001 - Present)
  • Adam Lazzara - Vocals (2001 - Present)
  • Matt Rubano - Bass, Vocals (2002 - Present)
  • Matthew Fazzi - Guitar, Vocals (2008 - Present)

Past Members

  • Steven DeJoseph - Drums (1999 - 2001) (Current Member of Pretty Polly and Playing Dead)
  • Jesse Lacey - Bass, Vocals (1999 - 2001) (Current Member of Brand New)
  • Antonio Longo - Lead Vocals (1999 - 2001) (Currently doing solo work)
  • John Nolan - Guitar, Vocals, Piano (1999 - 2002) (Current Member of Straylight Run)
  • Shaun Cooper - Bass (2001 - 2002) (Current Member of Straylight Run and Destry)
  • Fred Mascherino - Guitar, Vocals (2002 - 2007) (Current Member of The Color Fred)

[edit] Discography

Main article: Taking Back Sunday discography

[edit] Studio albums

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Artist Singles Chart History: Taking Back Sunday". Billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=481346&model.vnuAlbumId=1090709. Retrieved on 2008-06-30. 
  3. ^ Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records. "Taking Back Sunday | Music Artist | Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones | MTV". Mtv.com. http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/taking_back_sunday/artist.jhtml#bio. Retrieved on 2008-10-26. 
  4. ^ "new news, old news, better than no news". SPIN Magazine. TBSUnion.com. 29 Oct 2008. http://www.tbsunion.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1225318620&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&. Retrieved on 4 December 2008. 
  5. ^ Taking Back Sunday Join The Online Haters Instead Of 'Sitting Back' MTV, 2008
  6. ^ Gamboa, Glenn (October 10, 2007). "Direction Made, Taking Back Sunday Guitarist Leave". Newsday. 
  7. ^ TAKING BACK SUNDAY FIRES BACK AT FRED youtube, ArtisanNewsService, May 4 2009
  8. ^ rolling stone taking back sunday interview, 2008
  9. ^ Taking Back Sunday turns drama into fuel for the rock 'n' roll fire The Daily Times, December 2008
  10. ^ Taking Back Sunday to release 7-inch vinyl Altpress, April 2009
  11. ^ Taking Back Sunday post "Sink Into Me" clip Altpress, 2009

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