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New Found Glory Headlining Tour With Local Support

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New Found Glory will be doing some headlining dates before their tour with Dashboard Confessional. They will also be taking out Fallen From The Sky and Title Fight along with local acts. Have a suggestion for a local act to open for a show? Read the message from the band below for more info.

For the past few years NFG have not been able to hook up local bands due to a full traveling line up. We know how important it is to support local bands and local music scenes. That is how NFG got our start. We use to open locally in South Florida for bands like MxPx, the Get Up Kids, Unwritten Law,Bane etc. Playing those shows helped build our band and build our local scene. This tour will give us an opportunity to finally help out a little.

We ask you to “Tweet” @xchadballx and @steveisdareason some suggestions for local bands to open up the NFG show in their town. Please check http://www.myspace.com/newfoundglory for all the tour dates. Make sure you request bands only for our own headline shows, Not the shows we will be playing with Dashboard Confessional.

We do not want to piss any one off or discourage any bands so NFG will not be picking the specific band. We are just compiling a list of bands that we get the most requests for and submitting it to the local promoter to pick.

Tour Dates

Oct 21 2009 7:00P – The Chance, Poughkeepsie, New York
Oct 22 2009 8:00P – Northern Lights, Clifton Park, New York
Oct 24 2009 6:00P – Eleanor Rigby’s, Jermyn, Pennsylvania
Oct 25 2009 8:00P – Higher Ground, Burlington, Vermont
Oct 27 2009 6:00P – The Intersection, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Oct 28 2009 6:30P – Peabody’s Downunder, Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 30 2009 7:30P – Southgate House, Newport, Kentucky
Oct 31 2009 8:00P – The Rave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nov 1 2009 8:00P – People’s Court, Des Moines, Iowa
Nov 2 2009 8:00P – Slowdown, Omaha, Nebraska
Nov 3 2009 5:30P – Station 4, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Nov 5 2009 8:00P – New Daisy , Memphis, Tennessee
Nov 6 2009 8:00P – Emerson Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana
Nov 7 2009 8:00P – Pop’s, Sauget, Illinois

New Found Glory Hit The Charts and The Road

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New Found Glory‘s new album, Not Without A Fight, hit the Billboard charts debuting at #12. New Found Glory will be hitting the road with Set Your Goals, Bayside and Shai Hulud starting March 25th in Tempe, AZ. Check out all the dates below.

Not Without A Fight Tour Dates (w/Set Your Goals, Bayside and Shai Hulud):

25 Mar – Marquee Theater, Tempe AZ
26 Mar – House of Blues, San Diego CA
27 Mar – House of Blues, Anaheim CA
28 Mar – Avalon, Hollywood CA
29 Mar – Grand Ballroom @ the Regency, San Francisco CA
31 Mar – Hawthorne Theater, Portland OR
01 Apr – The Showbox, Seattle WA
02 Apr – Knitting Factory, Boise ID
03 Apr – In the Venue, Salt Lake City UT
04 Apr – Gothic Theater, Denver CO
06 Apr – Palladium Showroom, Dallas TX
07 Apr – Emo’s, Austin TX
08 Apr – Warehouse Live, Houston TX
10 Apr – House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista FL
11 Apr – Jannus Landing, St Petersburg FL
13 Apr – Revolution, Ft Lauderdale FL
15 Apr – House of Blues, Myrtle Beach FL
16 Apr – Amos’ Southend, Charlotte NC
17 Apr – Sonar, Baltimore MD
18 Apr – The Trocadero, Philadelphia PA
19 Apr – House of Blues, Cleveland OH
20 Apr – Bogart’s, Cincinnati OH
22 Apr – Peoples Court, Des Moines IA
23 Apr – Myth Nightclub, St Paul MN
24 Apr – The Rave, Milwaukee WI
25 Apr – House of Blues, Chicago IL
26 Apr – Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak MI
28 Apr – Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto ONT
29 Apr – Webster Theater, Hartford CT
30 Apr – House of Blues, Boston MA
03 May – Newport Music Hall, Colombus OH
05 May – Egyptian Room, Indianapolis IN
06 May – The Pageant, St Louis MO
07 May – Granada Theater, Lawrence KS
08 May – Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City OK
09 May – Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque NM
10 May – Rialto Theater, Tucson AZ

New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight

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New Found Glory

Artist: New Found Glory
Album: Not Without A Fight
Label:Epitaph
Purchase: Smartpunk
Release Date: March 10, 2009

Overall: 8
Music: 7.5
Lyrics: 7.5
Production: 8.0

After a band is around for a while, it becomes hard to live up to their fans expectations. The band may want to take their music in a different direction or change this or change that, which can lead to many fans being disappointed. I don’t speak for everyone when I say this, but I fall into this category of disappointment after New Found Glory’s previous release of Coming Home. So, when I heard NFG was releasing a new album, I was skeptical but excited. I could only hope that NFG would bring back that pop-punk and hardcore style that I have enjoyed over so many years and luckily, they have done just that with their latest release Not Without A Fight.

With this new album, New Found Glory really brings back their sound that defined records like Sticks and Stones and Catalyst. The first few songs pretty much sum up what this album is about. “Right Where We Left Off” features an on-going catchy rhythm/lead guitar and chorus, “Don’t Let Her Pull You Down” displays a high pitched guitar riff and the chanting of “DONT! LET! HER! (pull you down)”, and lastly “Listen To Your Friends” is the type of song most people expect from New Found Glory: fast paced instrumentals, an extremely catchy pre-chorus and overall style as well as a good message of “listen to your friends!”

As the album continues, I think some of the songs can be easily over looked. For example, after my first listen of “47,” I thought the song was extremely cheesy saying “I called you 46 times..and you answered on the 47th.” After a few more listens, this song has easily become my favorites on the record. This same thinking can be applied to the song “Reasons” which starts off with a quick, acoustic guitar rhythm and one can only handle so much of Jordan Pudnik’s voice.

“Not Without A Fight” has a little something here and there for the “hardcore” kids–somewhat similar to songs off of their “Tip Of The Iceberg” EP. Songs like “Such A Mess” and “47” display some palm muted guitar riffs in the verse and in the breakdown that is sure to get kids going at shows. There is also a lot more group chanting than previous New Found Glory albums seen in songs “Don’t Let Her Pull You Down”, “47”, “Don’t Let This Be The End.”

If fans are expecting New Found Glory to progress and change their sound a bit considering they’ve been around for a while, this album has none of that. It is straight up pop-punk and that is what New Found Glory does best. The songs off of this album could easily be a continuation off of previous New Found Glory records, so don’t expect anything really “new” from New Found Glory. Overall, “Not Without A Fight” is a fairly strong record that I believe most fans will enjoy.

Track Listing

1. Right Where We Left Off
2. Don’t Let Her Pull You Down
3. Listen To Your Friends
4. 47
5. Truck Stop Blues
6. Tangled Up
7. I’ll Never Love Again
8. Reasons
9. Such A Mess
10. Heartless At Best
11. This Isn’t You
12. Don’t Let This Be The End

NFG Respond To Album Leak

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New Found Glory’s new album, Not Without A Fight, has already been heard by many New Found Glory fans waiting for the album due to a leak on the internet. NFG guitarst, Chad Gilbert, has responded to the leak via the band’s message board.

As far as the leaking thing. If my favorite bands cd came out early online i would download it to. For instance the new Morrissey record. I dont think it comes out for another 2 weeks and i’ve had it for like 3 weeks now. I will still buy it though because when i love a band or singer i gotta have the album artwork.

It is a bumm out that some of the anticipation is lost. the whole building up to release date loses a bit of its excitement but to be honest the fans that would go out of their way to download it are the true fans that go out of their way to buy merch and post online about how much they like it and are the ones that will know the words first and sing every song at the show. You are driven to get it because you like NFG so how can I be bummed at that!

So to all that have it. Spread the word if you like it and get people to go pick it up when it comes out! Not even for our sake but for epitaphs to. They are so passionate about NFG and our fans. They are true music lovers and they try to always put together cool and fun stuff for fans of this genre of music.