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NFG Uncovered on AOL MusicPosted 2/2/2007 by Suretone New Found Glory sings an acoustic version of "Glory of Love" along with "It's Not Your Fault" and "On My Mind" on AOL Music's: Session Under Cover. Watch NFG's mellowed out version of this punk rock song HERE!
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NFG - Spin.com Posted 1/9/2007 by Suretone "...Pop-punk mainstays New Found Glory followed suit, driving through tunes off 'Coming Home' like they were headed back to Coral Springs, Florida, their hometown."
Spin.com (Jan. 9, 2007)
Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | Meet NFG While On FOB Tour!Posted 1/3/2007 by Suretone Starting January 4th, New Found Glory will be hitting the road with Fall Out Boy, The Early November, Permanent Me and Lifetime (on select dates). The guys will be meeting fans and autographing CDs every night at about 7:30 at the TransWorld booth at each venue. Tickets may still be available in select cities so get them from Ticketmaster while they last!
Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | NFG Feature Westword WeeklyPosted 1/1/2007 by Suretone New Found Glory has always suffered critically from guilt by association with a lot of pop-punk bands that really had no business making music. Sum 41, A Simple Plan, Good Charlotte -- these bands will most likely become footnotes to footnotes in music history. But frontman Jordan Pundik and company have been churning out fan-pleasing albums since 1997, and if their consistently packed tours are any indication, they intend to do more than just outlast their copycats. Coming Home, their most mature outing yet, explores responsibility and familial hardships rather than teenage-grade angst. Surprising the critics might just be the first step in the act's master plan. From Covington, Kentucky, just a few hours before the opening-night show of New Found Glory's current tour, Pundik took the time to discuss his band's evolution.
Westword: Recording this album presented some new experiences for you, didn't it?
Jordan Pundik: We had the most time with this record that we've ever had. We were able to focus on writing songs and demo-ing. In our entire career, we've never really demo'd a record before. We were in Malibu, at this place right on the beach at Point Dume. It was a really cool experience, being able to write at all times of the day, like at one or two in the morning, as opposed to the last records, where we always had to write between tours. Like, "You've got two months to record your new album before your next tour. Here you go."
It was announced last year that James Dewee of Reggie and the Full Effect had joined New Found Glory, too.
He was with us the whole Catalyst record cycle because he recorded a couple of parts on keyboards. We wanted to play the songs live, too, so we made him our keyboard player for the whole cycle. But in the end, he wanted to really just focus on Reggie and the Full Effect.
While other pop-punk bands have opted to embrace punk's inherent relationship to politics and protest in order to abide by current popular trends, New Found Glory chose to swing the opposite direction by embracing the personal with Coming Home.
We're a band that writes songs from the heart, and we write them about what we know. I think that, especially with the last record, it was negative, in a way. "It's All Downhill From Here," "Failure's Not Flattering" and "Doubt Full" -- they're negative sorts of songs. With Coming Home, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world, but I don't know -- we've never really been the band to write about that kind of thing. We've always written from our own personal experiences, and I think this record is -- and I don't want to sound like some Christian rock band -- a lot more positive. You know what I mean?"
That isn't the result of finding God, is it?
[Laughter]
Did the fact that you were married last December have anything to do with this evolution for you personally?
Yeah, I think a little bit, personally.
How do you feel about how the critics have responded to Coming Home so far?
It's the first time reviewers have actually, you know, given us good reviews. [Laughs] It's different. Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | NFG in Salt Lake TribunePosted 1/1/2007 by Suretone Newfound sound: On New Found Glory's new "Coming Home" album, the band largely drops the punk-by-numbers that dominated past efforts to get a little more personal lyrically. The resulting songs are as catchy as anything the band has done before, and all the more approachable thanks to the universal sentiments expressed in cuts like "Oxygen" and "It's Not Your Fault." The album might be a little heavy on the love songs for some longtime fans, but that's the price of growing up, kids. New Found Glory, with The Early November opening, plays Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $18.50 at 24tix.com, SmithsTix outlets and the door. Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | Hallelujah!: New Found Glory excited about direction of new recordPosted 1/1/2007 by Suretone ALAN SCULLEY - SPECIAL TO The Daily Herald
In the months leading up to the release of New Found Glory's new CD, "Coming Home," there was plenty of speculation that it would mark a musical departure for the band.
Some of that talk grew from interviews guitarist Chad Gilbert did last fall in which he hinted at new musical directions.
"Coming Home" does in fact offer significant musical contrasts to New Found Glory's previous three CDs.
What hasn't gotten as much attention is that "Coming Home" is also a notable departure for the band on a lyrical level.
The group's previous CD, the 2004 release "Catalyst," had hinted at a lyrical shift, as the band's primary lyricists, singer Jordan Pundik and guitarist Steve Klein, began to move away from writing the kind of light-hearted and sarcastic tales of teen romance that are typical for many young pop-punk bands.
"Catalyst" marked a move toward slightly more mature and serious material about relationships and life issues. That lyrical direction is even more pronounced on "Coming Home" -- but with a significant difference, according to Pundik.
"It's just 'Catalyst,' we were kind of in a different place," he said in a recent phone interview. "It was definitely a little more negative than 'Coming Home.' 'Coming Home' is really, I don't want to sound like a Christian rock band or something, but the new record is a little more uplifting and positive in a way.
"This record definitely has more of a theme," Pundik said. "It's about taking responsibility in relationships and being away from people, and people you love and stuff."
Life indeed is changing for the guys in New Found Glory -- which is appearing Wednesday at In the Venue in Salt Lake City.
When the south Florida band came together in 1997, the five band members -- Pundik, Gilbert, Klein, bassist Ian Grushka and original drummer Joe Moreno (replaced after the first CD by Cyrus Bolooki) -- were still in their teens.
Today, various band members are married (including Pundik), engaged or have become fathers, and they have all grown into adulthood in front of fans, as they pursued a busy schedule of touring and recording over the course of four previous CDs and two EPs.
By "Catalyst," the band had begun to move slightly away from the catchy pop-punk sound that had defined the earlier New Found Glory records. Along with the expected fast-paced tunes, the CD mixed in a few more measured rockers and even a ballad.
"Coming Home," though, pretty much leaves the punk element behind. The songs still rock -- just note the wallop delivered by "Hold My Hand" or "Connected." The group's firmly established talent for writing strong melodies is also intact throughout the CD.
But the band pulls back on the tempos of virtually all of the songs, and at times evokes a combination of modern rock crossed with the mainstream rock of artists like Tom Petty, Cheap Trick and even Bon Jovi. Pundik said there was no premeditated plan to slow song tempos and step away from the punk element of earlier songs.
It wasn't a conscious effort for us to say, 'OK, no punk songs on this record, because we did write some,' " he said, noting the 13 songs on "Coming Home" were chosen from a pool of about 30 tunes. "There were some fast songs. But (they) didn't really fit."
The group also decided to record the new CD with a different producer, after having worked with Neal Avron on the previous three records. The band didn't have to look far. Thom Panunzio, a veteran producer and A&R representative with New Found Glory's record label, signed on to co-produce "Coming Home" with the band.
"We love Neal, and Neal's amazing and he's one of our really close friends," Pundik said. "But after three records with him, after writing those records and a lot of other bands started to come out and get kind of popular, we kind of wanted to try something different."
The choice of Panunzio was greeted with surprise and a bit of confusion by fans because Panunzio is known largely for studio work with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Petty, Grand Funk Railroad and the Jeff Healey Band. These credits, along with news that Petty's keyboard player, Benmont Tench, was playing on tracks for "Coming Home," left fans wondering just what type of CD New Found Glory was making.
The band itself, Pundik said, got over any doubts about choosing Panunzio when they saw his passion for the project.
"One of the songs that really got him to say. 'OK, I want to do this' was that song 'On My Mind.' That song really got him," Pundik said. "He was like, 'Man, I'll put my career on the line for this song.' I don't know, Thom's done everything from like the Go-Go's to Bob Dylan, so he's very well rounded in music. And he's our A&R guy, so he has to know what's going on (in the music scene) right now."
New Found Glory
When: Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Where: In The Venue, 219 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City<br><br>Tickets: $18.50 advance, $22 day of, available at Smith's Tix locations (800-888-TIXX, www.smithstix.com)
Info: (801) 359-3219, www.inthevenue.com Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | NFG review- Dallas NewsPosted 1/1/2007 by Suretone "For years, New Found Glory has nurtured an unusually broad fan base for a pop-punk act: hard-core pit diggers love 'em, collegiate frat punkers love 'em, giggle-happy teeny-boppers love 'em, even mainstream pop fans give 'em some props.<br>But now, the fun- and camera-loving act is getting serious. Coming Home, its latest CD, is a sober but happy record that recalls the band's formative days in sound and spirit."
-Dallas News
Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | NFG's Coming Home chosen as one of the 10 essential albums of 2006 by Alternative pressPosted 1/1/2007 by Suretone NFG's Coming Home chosen as one of the 10 essential albums of 2006 by Alternative press.
From the opening chords of "Oxygen" to the ethereal wafting of "Boulders," I admittedly fell in love with this album the first time I heard it-much to the chagrin of a certain AP music editor who had to suffer through repeated spins at very loud volumes. Truth be told, I keep a copy in my office, one in my car and another in my bedroom. Sure, I always though New Found Glory were pretty good, but now that Jordan Pundik got his sinuses drained, I think they're tops.
-Leslie Simon, Managing Editor of Alternative Press Digg | Del.icio.us | Facebook | NFG in the Palm Beach PostPosted 1/1/2007 by Suretone Listening to Coming Home, the better-than-average set of sprightly pop-punk by Coral Springs' New Found Glory, is a surprisingly enjoyable experience. That's mostly because the 13 songs on it are made to be enjoyed.
That is, they're not snickering faux-dark treatises on murderous fantasies, weddings to hookers and how profoundly tragic it is to be a suburban rock star.
Instead, Coming Home is an album of love songs that follows the stages of a relationship from beginning to end and beginning again. It's all there, from the giddiness of being first smitten (Oxygen, Hold My Hand) to being in love (the title track) to falling out of love (Too Good To Be) and then fiercely falling back in (Boulders).
It's all written in beautifully vulnerable, snarkless, shout-out-it-loud terms, with an unself-conscious joy in the lyrics, the do-do-dos and the muted hand claps that find a sweet, genuine current of emotion without sacrificing edge. Coming Home is similar, in spirit, to the 1990s romantic pop punk crooning of Chicago's brilliant Smoking Popes. Both groups tap into something that's criminally missing from so much modern music (heck, from so much modern entertainment, period ) because everybody's so stupidly afraid of being sincere lest they be labeled pop parrots.
Singer Jordan Pundik's slightly nasal vocal delivery isn't that different from a lot of singers in this genre, but it curls into sweetness, rather than a snarl. Wrapped around journal-entry cute lines like "And you smell like angels oughta smell" on the boppy, '80s-ish Hold My Hand and the earnestly protective pleadings of It's Not Your Fault, Pundik's delivery is never cloying, ironic or dumb. Underscored by drummer Cyrus Bolooki's strong beat, the songs are like a pre-made mix tape about the ups and downs of making yourself honestly vulnerable to another human being.
Bravo.
The grade: A-
Palm Beach Post
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