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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 and The Used recently announced a spring co-headlining tour of North America, with Tonight Alive and Sleepwave set to support. Performances in New York and Los Angeles sold out shortly after going on sale last week, and, as a result, the tour has now been expanded to include a second LA date, […]

APTV Nashville correspondent Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain) brings you the APTV News report for the week of Jan. 27, 2014, including stories from Chiodos, Silverstein, Taking Back Sunday, and more. Videography by Mary-Beth Blankenship.

Sometimes the rock world can get noisy, and we don’t just mean in decibels or fuzz. Often the signal-to-noise ratio is more noise than signal. But no worries; we read, listen to and watch everything so we can sort it for you. Here are some of our favorite new songs and videos of January 2014. […]

Go onto the set of the video for Taking Back Sunday's “Flicker, Fade” with APTV Los Angeles correspondent Nick Major. The song comes from the band's upcoming album Happiness Is, out March 18 via Hopeless Records. Check out the band new video below: 

Taking Back Sunday and the Used have announced a co-headlining U.S. tour this spring. Support on the tour will come from Sleepwave (Spencer Chamberlain from Underoath) and Tonight Alive (3/18 – 4/27) You can check out the full list of dates below. Pre-sale tickets will be available at 2 p.m. here. Both the Used and Taking […]

Taking Back Sunday have released a new music video for the song “Flicker, Fade.” The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, Happiness Is, which is set to be released on March 18 via Hopeless Records. (Pre-orders for the album are available here.) Check out the video below, and let us know what you think. Check […]

South By So What?! have confirmed the final lineup for their 2014 festival, and some important changes were made to the lineup that are worth noting: Hrvrd, I The Mighty, Upon A Burning Body and Wolves At The Gate have all been dropped from the festival. ’68, A Lot Like Birds, Betrayal, From Indian Lakes, The Greenery, He […]

Our February 2014 issue: AP 307, features our annual most anticipated music feature, including cover artists Taking Back Sunday, Pierce The Veil, Crown The Empire, Motionless In White, Falling In Reverse, Memphis May Fire and 21 more! Listen along as you check out our twenty one pilots photo special, meet this month’s AP&R and AP Recs artists (Get […]

We here at AP pride ourselves on staying on top of current musical trends. Throughout the course of our 300-plus issues and nearly 29 years in business, we’ve helped spread the gospel of nascent, often misunderstood genres like goth, industrial rock, noise rock, nü metal, pop-punk, metalcore and plenty more.  But recently, we began hearing […]

Taking Back Sunday’s new album, Happiness Is, is set to be released on March 18 via Hopeless Records. The band have released the album’s first single, “Flicker, Fade,” on iTunes, along with digital pre-orders for the album. Physical pre-order packages are also available via Hopeless Records. You can listen to “Flicker, Fade” and check out the […]

Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara has premiered a new music video for his folky solo song, “Because It Works,” on Rolling Stone. The track, which was released last month, appears on Our Voices, a four-way split EP from I Surrender Records, also featuring Bayside's Anthony Raneri, Saves The Day's Chris Conley and I Am The […]

Taking Back Sunday have posted a clip from their recently released DVD, TAYF10: Live From Starland Ballroom. Watch the band perform the song “There’s No ‘I’ In Team” at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. TAYF10: Live From The Starland Ballroom was released on December 10 as a double DVD release, along with TAYF10: Acoustic. […]

The rock world is in short supply of gold plaques. Album sales continue to bleed obsolescence, and moving 500,000 copies is just downright unrealistic for most musicians today. In a scene where selling 100,000 records alone is enough to earn a band some serious label love, Gold certification for a band today is a monumental (and […]

South By So What?! have announced a large portion of their 2014 festival's lineup today, including Taking Back Sunday, The Used, The Story So Far, The Devil Wears Prada, Mindless Self Indulgence and more.  Tickets (including three-day passes) for SBSW?!, which takes place March 14-16 at Quiktrip Park in Grand Prairie, TX are onsale now via […]

Earlier this year, before signing with Hopeless Records, Taking Back Sunday self-released a live acoustic album and concert film, TAYF10: Acoustic, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of their classic debut, Tell All Your Friends. Recorded in the fall of 2012 during the band's Tell All Your Friends Tenth Anniversary Tour, both releases were made available in only digital […]

Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara has debuted a folky new solo song, “Because It Works.” The track, which features Lazzara on acoustic guitar and harmonica, is quite a departure from his band's typical sound, and can be streamed now via Fuse. LISTEN HERE “Because It Works,” will appear on Our Voices, an upcoming four-way split EP from I Surrender […]

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, […]

Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara will rejoin his bandmates tomorrow in Charlotte, NC to wrap the band's fall headlining tour. Lazzara had left suddenly due to his wife going into labor, which led to three cancelled dates and a quick fill-in by Spencer Chamberlain (Sleepwave, ex-Underoath).  Remaining Dates: 11/3               Charlotte, NC               The Fillmore (with Anberlin, The Maine […]