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Original Taking Back Sunday vocalist, Antonio Longo, has uploaded a video from one of the band’s early performances. You can watch the band performing the song “Eleven,” with Longo at the helm, at a Long Island show in 1999. (Watch out for current TBS frontman, Adam Lazzara, who was in the band at this point, […]

Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara and John Nolan stopped by a Charlotte, N.C. television station to perform a live, acoustic rendition of an as-yet-untitled new song. The song was first performed at a “secret” show in Long Island back in Aug., and, at the time, jokingly referred to as “The Bird You Cannot Change.” This tune, […]

Adam Lazzara and John Nolan from Taking Back Sunday meet “Butter Stamos”–literally the likeness of John Stamos sculpted from butter–at Riot Fest and talk to his creator, Jim Victor.

Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara and John Nolan, during a “secret” acoustic show last night at a bar called The Leaky Lifeboat in Seaford, N.Y., performed a new song, potentially titled “The Bird You Cannot Change.” We say potentially because, though Lazzara jokingly suggested the title (and even laughed about how all of the “shitty […]

Taking Back Sunday vocalist Adam Lazzara and guitarist/co-vocalist John Nolan have entered the studio to continue work on the group's sixth album. They will join guitarist Eddie Reyes, who began tracking last week, at Rancho Recordo in Michigan. As the band announced previously, Marc Jacob Hudson and Ray Jeffrey will produce part of the album, while the […]

Geoff Rickly (formerly of Thursday) and John Nolan (Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday) have announced that they will tour together this May. Dates and tour admat follow.        Fri/May-10 Brooklyn, NY St. Vitus Sat/May-11 Philly, PA North Star Bar Sun/May-12 Cleveland, OH Mahalls Mon/May-13 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen Tue/May-14 Indianapolis, IN The Hoosier Dome […]

John Nolan has announced five east coast shows happening in March. See the flyer below for details and head to Bandcamp to get acquainted with his solo works.

Christopher Browder of Mansions recently updated fans on the status of a long-rumored split with John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday: “There was an announcement last year that you were planning on doing a split with John Nolan. Is that still going to happen? I don’t want to say too much, but I think there’s […]

Before Taking Back Sunday settled into the Taking Back Sunday lineup you know and love, they had a slightly different configuration: Eddie Reyes’ pal Antonio Longo was the vocalist—and a kid named Adam Lazzara was on bass. Of course, the latter eventually settled into the frontman role after Longo departed from the band, Shaun Cooper […]

After John Nolan and Shaun Cooper left Taking Back Sunday in 2003, the band was reeling. Vocalist Adam Lazzara was torn up about the departures and about the end of his relationship with Nolan’s sister, Michelle. Meanwhile, drummer Mark O’Connell faced the toughest decision of his career. Should he join his close pals Nolan and […]