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New Found Glory (formerly '''A New Found Glory''') is an American Pop Punk band, that formed in 1997 in Coral Springs, Florida and is currently based in California . HISTORY Early years New Found Glory formed in the middle of 1997 with Jordan Pundik on Vocals , Chad Gilbert (formerly of hardcore band Shai Hulud , later arrested on grounds of expressing Satanic beliefs) and Steve Klein on Guitar s, Ian Grushka on Bass and Joe Moreno on Drums (he was replaced by Cyrus Bolooki after their debut release). The band's name, "A New Found Glory," was thought up by Pundik and Klein while working at Red Lobster , but they later dropped the 'A' because many fans had difficulty finding their records in stores. The band embarked on a series of early tours, which included tours with local band The Vacant Andys, whose lead singer, Chris Carrabba , would go on to form the bands Further Seems Forever and, most notably, Dashboard Confessional . Their early recordings have a melodic hardcore influenced sound, prior to maturing into a pop punk/rock band. The band recorded their first EP called '' It's All About The Girls '' under Fiddler Records in June 1997. The band's enthusiastic live performances soon resulted in them selling out the entire pressing of this EP. Over time, the strength of the live show helped build a strong following. Their first album '' Nothing Gold Can Stay '' was released by Eulogy Recordings . A popular band at the time, Midtown heard the record and gave a copy of it to Stefanie Reines of Drive-Thru Records . She liked what she heard and had the band re-release the album in 1999 under Drive-Thru Records . Later they recorded an EP entitled '' From The Screen To Your Stereo '', consisting of movie themes covered in a similar manner to Me First And The Gimme Gimmes . As a result of their growing popularity and a distribution deal Drive-Thru had with MCA , which allowed MCA to take away any of Drive-Thru's bands, the band was signed to MCA. Professional career Their first full length release recorded with MCA was their self-titled album, which was released late in 2000 and which was the first to make an impression on the charts reaching number 107 on the Billboard 200 album charts and number one on the Heatseeker chart (the album's hit single "Hit or Miss" reached number 15 on the US modern rock chart). ''From the Screen to the Stereo'' would make the top 40 of the Heatseeker charts in 2002. The band's profile grew in 2001 with a support slot to a Blink-182 tour and a slot on the Warped Tour . The band recorded the '' Sticks And Stones '' album in late 2001 for release in the middle of 2002. ''Sticks and Stones'' proved to be their breakthrough record debuting at number 4 on the Billboard album charts selling 91,000 albums in the first week of sales and also reaching the top ten of the UK album charts. The album spawned two singles namely
In November of 2002, the band received the key to the city of Coral Springs. One night at the Palladium in Worcester Mass, the members brought a girl from the crowd on stage because she stated she could play the song "Head On Collision". In fact she could, to the bands surprise. The lucky girl joined the band in playing the song. New Found Glory has headlined the 2002, 2004 Warped Tour 's, and the 2007 Lucky Thirteen Warped Tour . New Found Glory released '' Catalyst '' in May 2004 and it debuted at number 3 on the Billboard album chart in late May selling 146,000 albums in its first week of release. The album would also debut in the top 40 of the UK and Australian album charts. The first single " All Downhill From Here " would go top 20 on both US and a composite world modern rock chart (based on the US, UK, Canada, Sweden, Finland and Australian charts) at the end of May 2004. Musically, the album was more complex and had harder guitar riffs than the previous albums, but the songs still had that classic "New Found Glory chorus." Contrary to the band's announcement on Fuse 's ''Daily Download'' on March 28 2005 , James Dewees of The Get Up Kids and Reggie And The Full Effect (who had previously provided keyboards for the song "Failure's Not Flattering" on ''Catalyst'' and toured with the band as a sixth member for about ten months) did not permanently join New Found Glory, due to his busy schedule with his own band. Chad Gilbert would also form a hardcore band called , Gilbert was not allowed to be a part of Hazen Street, despite co-writing the majority of their debut album's material. Although he wasn't credited due to the contract, his contribution to the recording remained on the album. On June 14 , 2006 MTV.com posted an article interviewing Chad Gilbert who announced that the next album would be titled ''Coming Home'' and was scheduled to be released September 19, 2006. He also announced the first single titled " It's Not Your Fault " would be released sometime in July 2006. {Link without Title} Along with a new album, the band will also be touring. They announced a tour of the UK that would start in November of 2006. {Link without Title} and that Michael Bethancourt of the Tyler, TX band Ivoryline would be joining the band as an additional guitarist/keyboard player for upcoming tours. In June, the new single " It's Not Your Fault " leaked onto the internet, after being released on a Suretone Records sampler. In July the second song from Coming Home , titled 'Hold My Hand' was leaked onto the internet via fansites. On August 23 , 2006 , the band released a cover of Justin Timberlake 's " Cry Me A River "on Yahoo! Music 's "Pepsi Smash Cover Art". Also, another song from Coming Home , titled "Oxygen", was released on the band's Myspace page in late August. On September 19 , 2006 , the album Coming Home was released, just as scheduled. It was produced by Thom Panunzio , who recorded Ozzy Osbourne , Tom Petty , and The Go-Go’s and sold 38,845 copies in its first week. {Link without Title} Musically, the album was much more mature than anything the band had ever done before, with longer and slower melodic songs. People had previously complained about Pundik's vocals, saying they were "too nasally"; while on this album, those complaints faded drastically. New Found Glory finished a fall 2006 headlining tour supported by The Early November , Cartel , Limbeck and Hit The Lights , as well as a November/December UK tour supported by The Early November and Hit the Lights. The band also finished touring as a support act, along with The Early November and Permanent Me , for the pop/rock band Fall Out Boy . On May 6 , 2007 , New Found Glory headlined the charity concert RiverFusion in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania . On festival, Groezrock , and a few headlining shows in the UK, France and Germany. On June 29 2007 , New Found Glory released the brand new song "Situations" on the website AbsolutePunk.net, the same day they helped kick off the Vans Warped Tour. On August 6 , 2007 the band shot a video for 'Kiss Me' from the upcoming LP ''From the Screen to Your Stereo Pt. 2''. On August 10 , 2007 New Found Glory added the latest song from their new album From The Screen To Your Stero 2 to [http://www.myspace.com/newfoundglory their Myspace page]. MEMBERS Current members Jordan Pundik Chad Gilbert Steve Klein Ian Grushka Cyrus Bolooki and he also has a huuuuuge man crush on Justin Timberlake and loves the size of his penis Former members
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