Taking Back Sunday

Taking Back Sunday were originally an amalgamation of other bands who gravitated together in New York in 1999, adopting the emo style of guitarist Eddie Reyes' previous band The Movielife. They went through various personnel changes before the passionate vocals of Adam Lazzara and the dual guitar attack of Reyes and John Nolan contrived to create their distinctively uncompromising hardcore style, which was tempered by their catchy pop songwriting, first heard on record in 2002. Despite further personnel upheavals which resulted in the introduction of guitarist/singer Fred Mascherino, the band toured constantly and their second album Where You Want To Be - a US Number 3 album in 2004 - established them at the forefront of the commercial emo movement. While far darker and more aggressive, their third album Louder Now was even more successful, although it marked the departure of Fred Mascherino to launch his solo career. Matt Fazzi from the band Facing New York was Mascherino's replacement as the group reinvented itself with the brighter and far poppier 2009 album New Again.