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1.0 History

1.1 Early years

1.2 Independent success

1.3 Major label debut

1.4 Departure of Fred Mascherino and New Again

2.0 Other appearances

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Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Amityville, Long Island, New York, formed in 1999. The current members are vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist/back-up vocalist Matthew Fazzi, guitarist Eddie Reyes, drummer Mark O'Connell, and bassist/back-up vocalist 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. ^[1] 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 and #48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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

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History

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 (former guitarist for The Movielife) 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 DeJoseph on drums. The five-song EP was finally released in February 2001; though distributed at shows, the EP never achieved noteworthy success. ^[2]

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, Adam Lazzara moved to lead vocals and Shaun Cooper was recruited to play bass.

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, guitarist/back-up vocalist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left the band to form Straylight Run. The loss of Nolan and Cooper put the already unstable band into a state of heightened tension. However, Taking Back Sunday added Fred Mascherino guitar and vocals as well as Matt Rubano on bass.

The year of 2004 proved to be successful for Taking Back Sunday, with the band opening for Blink-182 and appearing on the Vans Warped Tour. In addition, their second album, 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.

Taking Back Sunday received even more mainstream exposure by appearing 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.

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 "What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?". In fact, all of Taking Back Sunday'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: Part Two 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.

Departure of Fred Mascherino and New Again

In October 2008 the band announced that Taking Back Sunday and guitarist Fred Mascherino would be parting ways. This came after Mascherino decided to focus on his then upcoming solo album with The Color Fred. He was later replaced by Matthew Fazzi ^[3] , who would provide guitar and backing vocals. ^[4] 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." ^[5] This statement lead to the band writing the track "Capital M-E", which features lyrical references to Mascherino's departure and the comments he made afterwards.

On November 6 2008, Taking Back Sunday revealed in Rolling Stone that their 4th studio album was to be titled New Again and would feature the tracks "Winter Passing", "Lonely Lonely", "Catholic Knees", and "Carpathia". They stated that "Winter Passing" was "...a slow dance 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 commented 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". ^[6] In the the build-up to the release of New Again, the band released a number of tracks, first of which was "Carpathia" on December 21st as a free digital download to those who purchased the band's Christmas holiday set ^[7], with a physical limited vinyl release of the track as well as a live version of "Catholic Knees" released on April 18 ^[8], secondly title track "New Again" as a free single download from the band's 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. On May 16 "Everything Must Go" was released to stream on the band's MySpace. Every Monday, the band released a new song on their MySpace from New Again labeling it "New Music Monday". ^[9]

Taking Back Sunday recently played in Dublin, Ireland where guitarist Matt Fazzi fractured his foot. ^[10] Despite this, the show in Belfast, Northern Ireland went on and the rest of the tour was completed, which included stops in the UK at Sonisphere and the Kerrang! awards.

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 appear on the song "Surgically Removing the Tracking Device" on Say Anything's 2007 album, In Defense of the Genre .
Adam appeared on Cyndi 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.

Discography

Studio albums

Tell All Your Friends (2002)
Where You Want to Be (2004)
Louder Now (2006)
New Again (2009)

Members

Eddie Reyes - guitar (1999 - present)
Mark O'Connell - drums (2001 - present)
Adam Lazzara - vocals (2001 - present)
Matt Rubano - bass guitar, vocals (2003 - present)
Matthew Fazzi - guitar, vocals (2008 - present)

Past Members

Steven DeJoseph - drums (1999 - 2001)
Jesse Lacey - bass guitar, vocals (1999 - 2001)
Antonio Longo - lead vocals (1999 - 2001)
John Nolan - guitar, vocals, piano (1999 - 2003)
Shaun Cooper - bass guitar (2001 - 2003)
Fred Mascherino - guitar, vocals (2003 - 2007)

Line-up history

1999-2001	Antonio Longo – lead vocals John Nolan – guitar, backing vocals Eddie Reyes – guitar Jesse Lacey – bass, backing vocals Steven DeJoseph – drums
2001	Antonio Longo – lead vocals John Nolan – guitar, backing vocals Eddie Reyes – guitar Adam Lazzara – bass, backing vocals Mark O'Connell – drums
2001-2003	Adam Lazzara – lead vocals John Nolan – guitar, backing vocals Eddie Reyes – guitar Shaun Cooper – bass Mark O'Connell – drums
2003-2007	Adam Lazzara – lead vocals Fred Mascherino – guitar, backing vocals Eddie Reyes – guitar Matt Rubano – bass, backing vocals Mark O'Connell – drums
2008-Present	Adam Lazzara – lead vocals Matthew Fazzi – guitar, backing vocals Eddie Reyes – guitar Matt Rubano – bass, backing vocals Mark O'Connell – drums