03/10/09 NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT IN STORES TODAY
Brand New Album From Pop Punk's Reigning Heavyweights Now In Stores
Not Without A Fight is in stores today! Stop by your local Target to pick up the CD and an exclusive t-shirt for only $14.99 or the CD by itself for only $7.99! If you prefer to do your shopping online, you can grab the record from iTunes or Amazon.
Be sure to check out the video for "Listen To Your Friends" which premiered yesterday on MTV!
Posted By: Epitaph
01/29/09 NEW FOUND GLORY TAKE THEIR FIGHT ON THE ROAD
Pop Punk’s Reigning Heavyweights Announce 7 Week Tour in Support of Not Without A Fight
Three years since their last studio record, New Found Glory are back at their fighting weight and ready to take on all challengers with their Epitaph debut Not Without A Fight, in stores March 10. In support of the release, NFG will hit the road with Bayside, Set Your Goals and Verse on a seven week tour that kicks off on March 25th in Tempe AZ. Tickets for all dates go on sale on January 29.
Not Without A Fight promises to be one of those classic New Found Glory records. All the huge pop anthems, sing-a-long choruses and hyperactively catchy riffs that got them off to their wildly popular start are back in full force. Songs like “Listen to Your Friends” and “Truck Stop Blues” highlight the accessibility of both NFG’s sound and lyrics. Not Without a Fight is an instant fan favorite.
Don’t miss New Found Glory on tour:
25 Mar – Marquee Theater, Tempe AZ
26 Mar – House of Blues, San Diego CA
27 Mar – House of Blues, Anaheim CA
28 Mar – Avalon, Hollywood CA
29 Mar – Grand Ballroom @ the Regency, San Francisco CA
31 Mar – Hawthorne Theater, Portland OR
01 Apr – The Showbox, Seattle WA
02 Apr – Knitting Factory, Boise ID
03 Apr – In the Venue, Salt Lake City UT
04 Apr – Gothic Theater, Denver CO
06 Apr – Palladium Showroom, Dallas TX
07 Apr – Emo’s, Austin TX
08 Apr – Warehouse Live, Houston TX
10 Apr – House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista FL
11 Apr – Jannus Landing, St Petersburg FL
13 Apr – Revolution, Ft Lauderdale FL
15 Apr – House of Blues, Myrtle Beach FL
16 Apr – Amos’ Southend, Charlotte NC
17 Apr – Sonar, Baltimore MD
18 Apr – The Trocadero, Philadelphia PA
19 Apr – House of Blues, Cleveland OH
20 Apr – Bogart’s, Cincinnati OH
22 Apr – Peoples Court, Des Moines IA
23 Apr – Myth Nightclub, St Paul MN
24 Apr – The Rave, Milwaukee WI
25 Apr – House of Blues, Chicago IL
26 Apr – Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak MI
28 Apr – Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto ONT
29 Apr – Webster Theater, Hartford CT
30 Apr – House of Blues, Boston MA
03 May – Newport Music Hall, Colombus OH
05 May – Egyptian Room, Indianapolis IN
06 May – The Pageant, St Louis MO
07 May – Granada Theater, Lawrence KS
08 May – Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City OK
09 May – Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque NM
10 May – Rialto Theater, Tucson AZ
Posted By: Epitaph
01/06/09 NEW FOUND GLORY WON'T GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT
Undisputed Pop-Punk Champs New Found Glory Will Release New Album On March 10th
Pop-punk's reigning champs, New Found Glory, come out swinging on their hotly anticipated new album, Not Without A Fight, due March 10th on Epitaph Records. Defending their title against any and all contenders, the platinum-selling group's sixth studio album delivers a one-two knockout with fist-pumping hooks and catchy sing-along choruses. Working with producer Mark Hoppus (Motion City Soundtrack, The Matches) and mixer Neil Avron (Fall Out Boy) in their corner, NFG prove that challengers don't stand a chance.
In anticipation of the release, New Found Glory will kick off the Fight on January 6th with an album pre-sale, online video game and a weigh-in press conference that will be followed by - in true NFG fashion - hysterically funny training videos launching each week beginning January 22nd that will ultimately lead up to the main event: a new music video for their first single "Listen To Your Friends."
New Found Glory have been slugging it out for over a decade alongside bands like Green Day and Blink 182, becoming one of the most celebrated pop-punk bands in the world. Known for their trademark humor and fun loving attitude, the band's latest effort will bring smiles to fans' faces once again.
The band's ability to consistently produce pop-punk favorites, album after album, has made New Found Glory a household name worldwide and Not Without A Fight raises the bar. Comprised of everything fans have come to love about the band, from their bouncy head-bobbing riffs and gang vocals to sing-along choruses and lyrics everyone can relate to, the album delivers knockout blows with the pop anthems like "Listen To Your Friends" (available now for digital download here) and grooving tracks like "47," followed by the right hook "Truck Stop Blues," a song about love on the road.
New Found Glory goes twelve rounds on Not Without A Fight, putting listeners into submission with each track and reminding fans and bands why they are the reigning champs of pop-punk.
Stay tuned, New Found Glory will be bringing the Fight to a city near you soon!
Posted By: Epitaph.com
12/23/08 New single out "Listen To Your Friends"
Today is the day all the New Found Glory fans have been waiting for! "Listen To Your Friends" is now available on iTunes!
CLICK HERE to get "Listen To Your Friends"!!
Posted By: Epitaph.com
09/16/08 NEW FOUND GLORY SIGNS WITH EPITAPH
Pop-Punk's Biggest Act Will Release New Album With Epitaph Records In 2009
Epitaph Records is proud to announce the signing of pop-punk's most notorious band, New Found Glory. The steadfast rockers are currently wrapping up the recording of their seventh studio album, which was produced by Mark Hoppus (The Matches, Motion City Soundtrack), mixed by Neal Avron (Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy) and due out in spring 2009. Watch the band's video announcement here.
For the past decade, New Found Glory has entertained fans with fun, energetic music, releasing six classic pop-punk albums, including three gold records New Found Glory, Sticks and Stones and Catalyst. The group's move to Epitaph marks the next chapter in the band's renowned career.
"Picking a new label was a scary thing for New Found Glory," explains Chad Gilbert. "The music industry has been changing so much and more and more bands are being treated and presented like some Wal-Mart pop act with guitars. We have real diehard fans and we wanted to find a home that would represent NFG the right way. A label that knew our music scene. Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of new found glory and they understand us. We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD! A real music label. We were over the big business of the majors."
"It's my great pleasure to welcome NFG to the Epitaph family," adds Epitaph's owner and founder Brett Gurewitz. "Everybody here is over the moon about working with the greatest pop-punk band in history."
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about New Found Glory's new album in the coming months.
New Found Glory Tour Dates:
9/16 – Aggie Theater – Fort Collins, CO
9/17 – Black Sheep – Colorado Springs, CO
9/19 – Pop's – Sauget, IL
9/20 – Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
9/21 – Toledo Civic Center – Toledo, OH
9/23 – Mr. Small's Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA
9/24 – Crocodile Rock Café – Allentown, PA
9/25 – Crazy Donkey – Farmingdale, NY
9/26 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
9/28 – Lupo's – Providence, RI
9/30 – Recher Theatre – Towson, VA
10/1 – Toad's Place - Richmond, VA
10/2 – Greene Street – Greensboro, NC
10/3 – Music Farm – Charleston, SC
10/4 – Fuel Coffeehouse – Jacksonville, FL
10/5 – Beta Bar – Tallahassee, FL
10/7 – Center Stage – Atlanta, GA
10/8 – Rocketown – Nashville, TN
10/9 – The Blue Note – Columbia, MO
10/10 – The Otherside – Tulsa, OK
10/12 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
11/7 – Ciro Volador – Mexico City, Mexico
11/9 – Estadio Victor Jara – Santiago, Chile
11/12 – C. C Scencia – Lima, Peru
11/14 – Capital Disco – Santos, Brazil
11/15 – ABC Pro HC Festival – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Posted By: Epitaph.com
2009 About New Found Glory...
New found energy, new found purpose: that's what Not Without A Fight is all about. The first New Found Glory album to bear the Epitaph logo brims with fresh promise, showcasing a band comfortable in their own skin and eager to get back to basics and present it all to the world. Not Without A Fight is arguably the strongest addition to an impressive catalog with no less than three gold records and some of the most memorable songs of the past decade.
Album opener "Right Where We Left Off" is an instant reminder of the keen self-awareness that endeared New Found Glory to millions of fans worldwide in the first place. And naming their album Not Without A Fight? That's a nod to that other side of the group Epitaph owner Brett Gurewitz called "the greatest pop-punk band in history," the side that is scrappy, that's from the do-it-yourself scene. The side of a band who probably never should have been lumped in with some of the more teeny-bop friendly fare they've often shared the rock radio and TRL charts with.
Lead single "Listen to Your Friends" flips the script by rocking a verse even catchier than its chorus; "I'll Never Love Again" boasts a killer singalong. "47" has a hooky scream that breaks new ground for the Florida-bred five-some while "Truck Stop Blues" summons the potent urgency of the burgeoning scene that New Found Glory arose from, recalling a bygone era when they shared small stages with their friends in Get Up Kids, Piebald and Saves The Day.
Not Without A Fight packs together the best elements of fan favorite albums like Sticks and Stones (2002) and Catalyst (2004) with a reinvigorated drive making for a declaration that's fresh and timely. There's pop, there's punk, there's crunch, there's those irrepressible melodies and Jordan Pundik's instantly recognizable voice is in fine form.
"Nobody in New Found Glory loves anything as much as this band," says guitarist Chad Gilbert, by way of explanation as to how they have managed to maintain the same lineup - Pundik, Gilbert, Steven Klein (guitar), Ian Grushka (bass) and Cyrus Bolooki (drums) - for over ten years. "You fight with your mom. You don't hang out with her all the time. But you love her! You're never going to hate her. We're family. It might sound cliche, but that's what it is."
That family first came together in Coral Springs, Florida in 1997. Nothing Gold Can Stay (1999) and New Found Glory (2000) became classics thanks to hard-touring and good natured relationship building the world over, which ensured the next two albums (Sticks and Stones and Catalyst) would both debut in the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 chart.
As happens all too often, the uber-successful and beloved band found themselves delivering Coming Home to a group of relative strangers who lacked the same investment in them as before. By 2006, many of the folks who worked with the band at the label had been replaced by new faces, from the president on down. "At major labels, people are always losing their jobs," Gilbert points out. "Someone can love your band one week and the next week that person is fired."
With their recording contract fulfilled and in between management, New Found Glory seized the opportunity to have some fun while weighing their options, releasing From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II (something their most ardent supporters had demanded for years) and a split EP with their alter-ego, International Superheroes Of Hardcore.
"It brought this different attention to our band that we hadn't had in a while," Gilbert says. "Through the major label years, some of those lines got blurred because of some of the things the label did representing our band. With the release on Bridge 9 Records, we were able to do things how we wanted to do them. It was awesome."
In the midst of all of this, the band continued to write their next album, which they ultimately decided to record before choosing a new label. That's where +44 / Blink 182's Mark Hoppus came in, agreeing to produce Not Without A Fight at the studio he co-owns with Travis Barker. "He's an old friend of ours," Gilbert explains. "We had no money to make the record so we wanted someone with the confidence to do the album for free and get reimbursed later."
Eventually, of course, the label situation needed sorted out, as the guys in New Found Glory have no desire to be in any kind of "business" other than than business of writing great songs, recording them and playing them live.
"When we announced that we were no longer signed to Geffen two years ago, Brett Gurewitz was the first one to call me," Gilbert remembers. "'People at Epitaph are all music fans and have their shit together."
And as for that spectacular accolade from the man running their new record label home? "It's crazy!" Chad says, laughing. "The Descendents could take that crown way before we could, or Screeching Weasel, or Green Day. I don't know why he said that! He's crazy. It's flattering. It's really flattering. But I don't know what to say!"
New Found Glory's first Epitaph album has no guest appearances, no frills, nothing but fantastic songs and powerful performances. "If you really listen to our music, you can't pigeonhole it. We play music that we love."
Not Without A Fight is alternately the band's most streamlined and direct but powerful and broad album thus far.
"New Found Glory is back to where we want it to be: we tour, we play music and it's from the heart."
Posted By: Epitaph Records
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