Ever the hard workers, they returned to the studio in August to commence work on their third full-length album.
in June 2005 and co-headlined several shows with Jimmy Eat World.
In the wake of Where You Want to Be's success, Taking Back Sunday signed with Warner Bros. Taking Back Sunday toured steadily behind the album, headlining a sold-out North American tour and hitting the usual Warped Tour stops as well. It also introduced the vocal interplay of Lazzara and Mascherino, a combination that would briefly become one of the band's sonic calling cards. The sophomore effort, Where You Want to Be, arrived in summer 2004 and debuted at number three on Billboard's Top 200, establishing Taking Back Sunday as a forerunner in the wave of commercial emo bands. However, guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino (ex-Breaking Pangaea) and bassist Matt Rubano (ex-Schleigho) filled out the lineup in time for the band's fall 2003 tour and subsequent recording sessions. The group spent the rest of that year and much of 2003 touring, but when Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left the band (which was rounded out by drummer Mark O'Connell), Taking Back Sunday's future was left in doubt. The debut album was released in March 2002, and ended up being the only official album to include the founding lineup. The result, 2002's Tell All Your Friends, layered Adam Lazzara's emotional vocals and the dual-guitar assault of Reyes and John Nolan, creating a classic hardcore sound with pop songwriting components. and Hopeless Records.Īfter the release of a five-song demo and a year's worth of touring (including shows with At the Drive-In and Alkaline Trio), Taking Back Sunday signed to Victory Records and entered New Jersey's Big Blue Meanie Recording Studios alongside producer Sal Villanueva and engineer Tim Gilles. Though co-founder and lead guitarist Fred Mascherino left in 2007 to focus on his solo career, Taking Back Sunday soldiered on with releases on Warner Bros. By the time 2006's Louder Now was released, the group had become mainstream rock stars. Rooted in anthemic punk and hardcore, Taking Back Sunday also possess a mature sense of songcraft and structure that expands on the punk template.
After putting in their time on the New York/New Jersey punk scene, toiling away as a perennial opening act, and selling themselves hard on the Vans Warped tour, the band achieved a major breakthrough with 2004's Where You Want to Be, released on Victory Records. Formed in 1999 in Amityville, New York, Taking Back Sunday have modeled their interpretation of melodic hardcore after bands like Lifetime, Endpoint, and Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as guitarist Ed Reyes' emo outfit the Movielife.
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