New Found Glory

I Saw Fall Out Boy Live Right Before They Got Huge

I saw Fall Out Boy right before they got super popular and seemingly unavoidable--the last time they played the Marquee Theatre for an intentionally Intimate show. If my Google skills are correct, it was with New Found Glory at Marquee Theatre in 2007. What's even stranger is that the band performed ... More >>

RIP Crabcore: Attack Attack! Are In Phoenix Tonight (But Things Have Changed)

I have never once been so confused by a song as I was the first time someone told me to listen to "Stick Stickly," by Attack Attack! All I'd been told was that it was the source of the animated GIFs I'd started seeing all over the internet, in which a band's synchronized guitar power-moves suddenly ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Weekend

This weekend is Prince Eve. We understand that. But if you're unable or unwilling to part with the kind of money it takes to see Prince in something smaller than an arena, you can divert yourself with any of these coming attractions:

Alkaline Trio @ Marquee Theatre

10 Star Wars Songs To Ease Your Rage Now That Disney's Killed LucasArts

Ever since Disney's acquisition of LucasFilms was announced, the prognosis by fans has been mixed. Three new Star Wars movies is good news, right? Sure, but what about yesterday's news that Disney has shut down LucasArts? Yeah, the future of the saga a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is up ... More >>

Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning: 10 Years Later, It's a Gothy Pop Punk Classic

It's not uncommon for fans to have a soft spot for the first album they hear from a beloved artist. It might not be the band's defining work, but it was your entry point, your gateway. I'll always carry a torch for Alkaline Trio's fourth album, Good Mourning, and in this case, it's a significant alb ... More >>

The Story So Far: The Renaissance of Pop Punk?

Touring with New Found Glory seems like a dream come true for any up and coming pop punk band...especially one that takes its name from the closing track of Sticks and Stones, like California band The Story So Far does. The group just wrapped up a tour with NFG, where the pop punk vets played Sticks ... More >>

The Story So Far @ The Nile Theater

H2O's Poppy Major Label Debut, Go, Has Aged Very Well

I have a theory: The first album you listen to by one of your favorite musicians ends up being one of your favorite releases by said band, regardless of how it was received by critics or fans. Of course, this isn't always the case, but who hasn't ever had to answer to "You like that album, really?" ... More >>

10 Songs About Living Straight Edge

As August comes to a close, I had the challenge of picking a fifth and final topic for drug month. There were plenty of options--alcohol, tobacco, Quaaludes, club drugs, bath salts, and so on, but I decided to go in a different direction this week. How about anti-drug songs? They're harder to come b ... More >>

Warped Tour 2012, Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium, 6/28/12

Vans Warped Tour Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium Thursday, June 28 Despite my trepidation about being able to handle the heat and a slew of young bands that had little to do with the Warped lineups of my youth, I survived. Another Vans Warped Tour is in the bag. This was the first year it was he ... More >>

Crowdsourced: Fans Beat the Heat at Vans Warped Tour 2012

See also: Valley Bands Sweat it Out on Warped Tour Stages See also: Vans Warped Tour 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Auto-Tuned See also: Warped Tour 2012, Camelback Ranch Baseball Stadium, 6/28/12 Yesterday was my first Warped Tour in eight years. A lot has changed, though oddly enough, Anti-Flag ... More >>

Valley Bands Sweat It Out on Warped Tour Stages

Throwback Thursday: Sixpence None the Richer

Welcome to Throwback Thursday, where we revisit the overplayed, over (and under)rated, and the one-hit and multi-hit wonders of yesteryear. I have a bone to pick with Sixpence None the Richer for giving me unrealistic expectations about dating. When "Kiss Me" came out, it made me think that once ... More >>

Set Your Goals

Man Overboard's Justin Collier on Pop Punk, New Jersey, and New Found Glory

​Man Overboard, a Garden State pop punk group, is enjoying a whirlwind career. After touring with New Found Glory last year, the band just wrapped up a series of shows in the UK, and is gearing up for its first American headlining tour. The group has released 50 or 60 songs since it formed ... More >>

Top Five Concerts For This Weekend: Decapitated, Garage Shock, Bleached, Desert Dementia, and Liam Finn

​This weekend is looking pretty packed. In addition to the New Times Best of Phoenix A'Fare, there's a ton happening around the Valley, including shows from Tim Minchin, the Red Light Disco party, Avenged Sevenfold, New Found Glory, Star Slinger, Wayne Static, and more. Oh, and that giant music fe ... More >>

New Found Glory @ Marquee Theatre

Apache Lake Music Festival, Blitzen Trapper, Chico Mann, and More in This Week's Issue

​ Get ready for our very own Coachella this weekend. Well -- not really. As Christina Caldwell's feature explains, Apache Lake Music Festival isn't quite the same thing as that fest, but it does feature over 30 of Arizona's best bands in a remote setting. We've also got shorter features on Blitzen ... More >>

New Found Glory's Steve Klein on New Album, Changes in Pop Punk, and the Fate of International Superheroes of Hardcore

With the exception of a few heartbreaks, New Found Glory has continued to write music for the past 14 years with minimal obstacles. And since the band's songs largely deal with matters of the heart, you could consider all those bum relationships song fodder. The band is gearing up for the release ... More >>

The Ataris at Martini Ranch, 8/12/11

Although he has been the driving force behind one of the more successful pop punk bands of the last 15 years, The Ataris' Kris Roe seemed just like any other struggling musician last night at the Martini Ranch.

The Top Ten Pop Punk Songs That Got Me Through Those Awkward Teenage Years

But someone did understand. Someone knew exactly what to say to get us through. From the anthems of loneliness to the uplifting reminders that things would get better, pop-punk kept our little hearts ticking through it all. To this day, these songs still cause little prickly twinges of nostalgia t ... More >>

Four Year Strong

Paramore Fans Declare Last Night's Dodge Theatre Show "the Best They've Ever Been to"

Luke HolwerdaParamore at Dodge Theatre​It's no wonder Paramore's fans are so loyal to the emo pop band. Singer Hayley Williams talks directly to audience members during shows, and the band even brought up three lucky peeps to sing (and dance awkwadly during) their hit "Misery Business" for the sho ... More >>

The Paramore Paradox: Why Hayley Williams Can't Leave the Band That Made Her Famous

New Found Glory

Vitamin String Quartet and Other New Releases

​There sure are a lot of greatest-hits albums out today, including ones from Backstreet Boys and Mariah Carey, but what is most exciting in this week's new releases is Vitamin String Quartet's Death Cab for Cutie tribute album, Ghost.On the record, listeners will find a selection of ... More >>

American Hard Corps

SoFlo metalheads still going strong

Just Announced: Mostly Bears, New Found Glory, Asylum Street Spankers

The lack of crossover between the Phoenix and Tucson scenes has always struck me as a little odd, not only because we're out here in the desert together, without another decent-size city within a five hour's drive of us, but because the music coming out of the scenes isn't all that different, really ... More >>

The Medic Droid’s Electro Power-Pop and Ambisextrous Antics are Driving Kids Wild Nationwide

The Name Game

Two decades of identity crisis

The Name Game

Two decades of identity crisis

Top 10 selling CDs at Zia Record Exchange, 1940 West Chandler Boulevard in Chandler

Chart-busters for the week

The Queers

They're here

New Found Glory

Frontman forced to focus

Punk rock, video game, and DVD reviews

Your weekly pop culture wrap-up

Liars Academy

Demons
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The Ultimate Rock Fantasy

Vans Warped Tour

Hundreds of bands converge on Peoria Sports Complex

Maritime

Rising from the ashes of the Promise Ring

Nightlife

There's a hoot for every night owl at Valley clubs this summer

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

Ragin' Up the Road

Hot Rod Circuit traveled from barren place to less-barren place to get signed. They say the journey was worth it.

X Marks Its Territory

Legendary L.A. punks are still shoving it in your face, but gracefully so

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Sticks and Stones (MCA)

The Liars Club

The Liars Club (Self-released)

True Confessions

In the sensitive, acoustic-emo world of Dashboard Confessional, boys do cry