Sunday, March 29, 2009
Quick update. (I was and still am sick. the cold/flu sucks)
Rate My Circle Pit section on NFG Stuff Site
US tour has started. (April 23 MN!!)
ShamWow guy punches hooker. (Damn)
"Sniff Sniff Sneezzze!"
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Looks like a Mash-up.... sounds like a split.
Bridge9 has a new vinyl up on their homepage. Looks to be an NFG/Shai Hulud split. It's titled "Not Without A Heart Once Nourished By Sticks And Stones Within Blood Ill-Tempered Misanthropy Pure Gold Can Stay-Limited Tour Split EP." Wow, that's a mouth full guys. You'd think that they would want it to be catchy, easy to just roll off your tougne. Oh well I'm going to call it "The Split," or the "NWAHONBSASWBITMPGCS Split." Nah it's still too long. I'm going to stick with "That flat round thing that plays music." Check it out at http://www.bridge9.com/.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
From Xbox.com. Or as I like to call it, Mytoilet.com. Nintendo Forever! I'm sure Reidzor will have a relpy to this if he ever starts posting again.
Pop punk band New Found Glory have just released their sixth studio album, Not Without a Fight, and they're celebrating by playing WWE® Legends of WrestleMania® with Xbox LIVE® Gold members April 7.
If you're an Xbox LIVE Gold member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with New Found Glory, send a friend request to the following Gamertags and be online half an hour before (4:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Tuesday, April 7, 5:00 P.M. ET.
- NewFoundGWF
Epitaph label owner Brett Gurewitz calls New Found Glory "the greatest pop-punk band in history," which is quite a claim, but fans of the band from their first 1999 album Nothing Gold Can Stay to their brand-new release, realize Gurewitz just might be right. Their sixth studio album, Not Without a Fight, released on March 10 of this year, and has already hit the top ten in the Billboard charts.
The cover of the band's latest album.
With the new album, the band seems to have found a new purpose, a new intent in their strong and powerful music. Guitarist Chad Gilbert says, "New Found Glory is back to where we want it to be: we tour, we play music and it's from the heart." And he continues, "Nobody in New Found Glory loves anything as much as this band. You fight with your mom. You don't hang out with her all the time. But you love her! You're never going to hate her. We're family. It might sound cliche, but that's what it is." That's almost certainly the reason the band has maintained their current lineup for over ten years. New Found Glory consists of Jordan Pundik (vocals), Chad Gilbert (guitar), Steven Klein (guitar), Ian Grushka (bass), and Cyrus Bolooki (drums).
If you get a chance to play with New Found Glory, we want to hear about it! Send us an e-mail with the subject: "GWF – New Found Glory." Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.
Friday, March 20, 2009
A little birdie told me...
I just can't stand the inconvievence of a normal blanket. I feel so helpless when I end up under one. Thank you Snuggies for making the world safer for cold people.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
9
Not Without a Fight sold 26,900 copies last week, which puts them at #9 on the Billboard chart.
Awesome.
I guess I have my top 8 list of people I need to sabotage. I think i will start with...
From the Campus Circle
“New Found Glory’s been a band for 12 years. The biggest dilemmas in our lives are trying to keep relationships and all the times we pretty much fail at it,” explains guitarist Chad Gilbert. “So it’s sort of a metaphor for our personal war and the wars that you have in relationships with your loved ones.”
While the band’s last full-length album, 2006’s Coming Home, was brimming with youthful optimism, current situations dictated a different response this time around.
“When we wrote Coming Home, we were in love,” says Gilbert. “I was engaged. Jordan [Pundik, vocalist] was engaged. Everyone was psyched, but then everything went 360.”
Both Gilbert and Pundik went through divorces, and Gilbert found the best way to express these emotions was to revisit the fast-paced style of the band’s earlier days.
“We had all these crazy things happening that we’d never faced before in our lives, so that’s why this record came out energetic,” he explains. “It wasn’t like, ‘Let’s sit around and write sappy songs.’ It was like, ‘Let’s sit around and write some songs where we can get this shit off our chests.’”
Yet while fans are quick to compare it to the group’s breakthrough Self-Titled release, Gilbert remains more than a little hesitant.
“It’s funny because to me it does not sound like Self-Titled,” Gilbert admits. “It doesn’t sound like Sticks and Stones. It doesn’t sound like Catalyst. It might take people a few months to realize it, but definitely this record is its own entity.”
Another factor in the change of pace was that the songs from Coming Home, which were the most mellow of New Found Glory’s career, simply were not as fun to play live.
“We wanted to play songs that would translate better live,” Gilbert explains. “We’re like, ‘Alright, let’s write some songs that live we’re going to have a blast playing that we know our fans are going to have a blast singing along to.’”
Meanwhile, relationships aren’t the only metaphor Fight represents. After Coming Home was released, the band found itself without a record label for the first time in its career, but the fight was far from over.
“When you want something bad enough in life you have to fight for it,” Gilbert says. “That’s like with our band. We love being in this band, and we’ll do whatever it takes to continue.”
That included recording Not Without a Fight sans a label and with little to no money. Fortunately, the band has friends in high places, like Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, who agreed to produce the disc at his home studio knowing the band was good for it. The pairing turned out to be a perfect fit.
“We definitely would joke around a lot in the studio. It was a blast,” Gilbert says. “Mark really helped us get back to the core of New Found Glory and the raw kind of energy.”
The group eventually found a new home in Epitaph Records, a place that genuinely cared about New found Glory and its music, and now it seems like the band’s story so far has come full circle.
“Every album New Found Glory’s released is different in its own way, and we’ll continue to keep people on their toes,” Gilbert explains. “When we write albums, whatever comes out, comes out. We’re always real, and I think that’s why we still have the fans we do.”
If that isn’t something worth fighting for, then what is?
I <3 Snuggies
Who is the that in the picture? A possible 6th member of the group?
Nope.
Glad I could clear that up.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Media is Up!
One More Try.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
5 days to go... ...Hoop there it is!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Band of the Week
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Site News
That is all for now.
I think I'm turning Japanese
http://www.bsidesrus.blogspot.com/
Sunday, March 1, 2009
More Media Goodness.
Dinosaur popsicles and platypus gumdrops.
Until I find more interesting stuff to post....Later!