Taking Back Sunday

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, Long Island's Taking Back Sunday achieved a major breakthrough with 2004's WHERE YOU WANT TO BE, released on Victory Records. Rooted in the anthemic punk and hardcore sounds, Taking Back Sunday also possess a mature sense of songcraft and structure that expands on the punk template. By the time 2006's LOUDER NOW was released, the band had become true mainstream rock stars. Though co-founder and vocalist Fred Mascherino left the band in 2007 to focus on his solo career, the band has soldiered on.

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