New Found Glory

Members: Jordan Pundik, Chad Gilbert, Steve Klein, Ian Grushka, Cyrus Bolooki

Active: 1997-present

HISTORY

New Found Glory formed in the middle of 1997 with Jordan Pundik on vocals, Chad Gilbert (formerly of hardcore band Shai Hulud) and Steve Klein on guitars, 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 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

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 would grow 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 would prove 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 would spawn two singles namely

"My Friends Over You" reached number 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002, number 11 in Canada, number 5 on the US modern rock chart and number 2 on a MP3.com download chart.

"Head on Collision" went top 30 on both the Canadian singles charts and the US modern rock chart.

New Found Glory headlined the 2002 Warped Tour, and headlined again in 2004.

New Found Glory released Catalyst in May 2004 and it debuted at number 3 of 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) as at the end of May 2004. Musically, the album was more complex and harder guitar riffs than the previous albums, but the song's 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 Hazen Street with Freddie Cricien and Hoya of Madball, Toby Morse of H2O, David Kennedy formerly of Boxcar Racer, and Mackie Jayson formerly of Bad Brains.

Glory's contract with Universal Music, Gilbert will not be allowed to be a part of Hazen Street, despite co-writing the majority of their debut album's material.

On June 14, 2006 MTV.com posted an article interviewing Chad Gilbert who announced that the next album would be titled Coming Home and is 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.

Along with a new album, the band will also be touring. They will start a UK tour in late November of 2006. Michael Bethancourt of the Tyler, TX band Ivoryline will also be joining the band as an additional guitarist/keyboard player for these 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 ?Da Nunz? Panunzio, who recorded Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Petty, and The Go-Go?s and sold 38,845 copies in its first week. 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 has already scheduled a fall 2006 headlining tour with direct support by The Early November, and opening band Cartel. Bands Limbeck and Hit The Lights will also be opening on select dates.

ALBUMS

1999 - Nothing Gold Can Stay

2000 - New Found Glory

2002 - Sticks and Stones

2004 - Catalyst

2006 - Coming Home

EP'S

1997 - It's All About the Girls

2000 - From the Screen to Your Stereo

DVD'S

2002 - The Story So Far

2004 - This Disaster: Live in London

SINGLES

1999 - "Hit or Miss" - Nothing Gold Can Stay

2001 - "Hit or Miss" - New Found Glory

2002 - "Dressed to Kill" - New Found Glory

2002 - "My Friends over You" - Sticks and Stones

2002 - "Head on Collision" - Sticks and Stones

2002 - "Understatement" - Sticks and Stones

2004 - "All Downhill from Here" - Catalyst

2004 - "Truth of My Youth (Acoustic)"

2004 - "Failure's Not Flattering" - Catalyst

2005 - "I Don't Wanna Know" - Catalyst

2006 - "It's Not Your Fault" - Coming Home