New Found Glory News

Chris Carrabba has a lot of feelings, and he doesn't care who knows it. The Dashboard Confessional frontman and emo's reigning poster child has been both worshiped and vilified, in equal measure, for his penchant for raw odes about the many ways a heart can break.

Friday night, local bands united at the Talent Farm in Pembroke Pines for a good cause.

Hailing from Coral Springs, FL, the punk-pop band New Found Glory was formed in mid-1997 by vocalist Jordan Pundik, bassist Ian Grushka, drummer Joe Moreno , and guitarists Chad Gilbert and Steve Klein.

Drowning Pool has completed work on its fourth album at a studio in New Jersey with producer David Bendeth.

For pop-punk, New Found Glory's self-titled album from 2000 helped define the genre, inspire the formation of bands everywhere, and pave the way for the success of groups such as Fall Out Boy.

If you've lived in South Florida for any length of time, chances are, there are fewer than six degrees of separation between you and the tight-knit Pundik family.

"Alright, I'm Chris. It's nice to see you guys. You wanna sing one?" Those were the opening words of Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba last night -- a coyly posed question he surely knew the answer to.

Dashboard Confessional with New Found Glory In early November word came through that Dashboard Confessional would have to cancel their upcoming tour with New Found Glory due to a unspecified family emergency, but it looks like Dashboard main man Chris Carrabba has found an alternative.

With releases from newcomers like Kid Cudi to side projects from veterans like Jack White, 2009 was an amazing year for music.

When we heard that the Dead Milkmen were officially back in the picture -- playing shows, making new music -- and blowing it out with a big Halloween bas, we gave frontman Rodney Anonymous a word count and set him free.

This oughta make the emo kids cry: Dashboard Confessional have postponed their upcoming North American tour because of a "family issue." Dashboard Confessional were due to tour the continent in support of their sixth studio album, Alter The Ending , due out Tuesday .

D ashboard Confessional 's founding singer/songwriter, Chris Carrabba, was having a hard time deciding whether his next album should be a full-on electric rock project or a stripped-down, acoustic affair when he came up with a novel solution.

With Mayday Parade, the Academy Is, the Secret Handshake, and You Me at Six. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, October 24, at the Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale.

Inside the guts of the music industry, it's clear that money talks. Creativity is sacrificed for likeability, and groups of fame-hungry boy toys are quickly whipped into your new teen idols for a greedy buck.

Screaming fans? Colorful lights? Bass bumping? It must have been the Homecoming Concert last Thursday, Oct.

"Brand New Eyes," is the newest effort by Paramore, a female fronted pop act that walk the tenuous line between stealing New Found Glory riffs and stealing Maroon 5 riffs.

All Time Low are living the dream. A scruffy quartet of Baltimore kids who nailed their first recording contract before they graduated high school, they have since become as recognizable a pop-punk band as their heroes Blink-182 and New Found Glory.

New Found Glory's "Not Without a Fight," released in March on Epitaph Records, received its title from the first track on the CD, "Right Where We Left Off." The song seems aptly titled.

Punk rock group New Found Glory has called time on its major-label career and signed a new deal with Epitaph Records.

Kansas City's poster children for pop-punk, the Get Up Kids have re-united to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their second album, "Something to Write Home About." Highly influential in the late-'90s, TGUK splintered in 2005, with members going on to play in acts as diverse as the New Amsterdams, the Terrible Twos, Spoon, Reggie and the Full ...