Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Amityville, New York, formed by guitarist Eddie Reyes and bassist Jesse Lacey in 1999.

[12] After recording Taking Back Sunday's self-titled EP, Longo left the band and eventually played with The Prizefighter and the Mirror.

[19][20] Lazzara fell ill around Christmas, and the sessions were delayed one to two weeks;[21] recording concluded in early January 2002, and ended up costing $10,000.

[16][32] John and Michelle Nolan formed Straylight Run with Cooper and Breaking Pangaea drummer Will Noon in the wake of the split from Taking Back Sunday.

[32][34] Eventually, it was decided the band would continue;[16][35] the two departed Taking Back Sunday members were replaced by Breaking Pangaea frontman Fred Mascherino on guitar and vocals as well as O'Connell's longtime friend Matt Rubano on bass.

[32] After their co-headlining tour with Saves the Day concluded in November 2003,[36] Taking Back Sunday immediately commenced work on a second album.

[38] Taking Back Sunday self-financed the recording sessions,[19] two weeks of which took place at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, New York.

Despite sounding slightly different from Tell All Your Friends as a result of Giordano's guidance,[40] the new album managed to do well commercially; preceded by the single "A Decade Under the Influence" on June 22,[27] Where You Want To Be was propelled to the No.

[42] Instead of spending marketing money towards trying to get radio play, Victory Records deployed a street team handing out sampler CDs and fliers to promote the album.

[44] Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 directed the music video for "This Photograph is Proof (I Know You Know)"; Blink-182 had invited the band to open for them during their North American tour in 2004.

[37] Production on Taking Back Sunday's third album began in April 2005, when Lazzara that the band was in "the early stages" of writing new songs.

[47] During this time, they were on a co-headlining tour with Jimmy Eat World;[48] they would introduce two new tracks, "Error: Operator" and "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?"

[52] The group chose Valentine because he had produced Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf (2002) and Third Eye Blind's self-titled album (1997).

"[62] This statement inspired the band to write the track "Capital M-E", which features lyrical references to Mascherino's departure and the comments he made afterward.

[69] Despite this, the show in Belfast, Northern Ireland went on and the rest of the tour was completed, which included stops in the UK at Sonisphere Festival and the Kerrang!

[82] On April 6, 2011, the band played at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, to record footage for an upcoming video for the song "El Paso".

In honor of Record Store Day 2012, the band released a limited press vinyl LP entitled "We Play Songs", featuring four live acoustic tracks.

[88] Taking Back Sunday embarked on a "Tell All Your Friends" 10th anniversary tour for 2012, during which the band performed their debut album in its entirety.

[89] The full US tour featured Bayside as main support, with Transit, Man Overboard and Gabriel the Marine as special guests.

"[91] The band, who are working alongside producers Marc Jacob Hudson and Ray Jeffrey, have confirmed that pre-production of the 6th studio record has been completed, and that drum and bass tracking has begun.

[92] On August 29, 2013, Adam Lazzara and John Nolan performed an acoustic set at the Leaky Lifeboat Inn, in Seaford, New York, where they debuted a new song with a working title, "The Bird You Cannot Change".

[93] From October 25 through November 2, Underoath vocalist Spencer Chamberlain began filling in on lead vocals following the premature birth of Adam Lazzara's son.

[95] On January 11, 2014, Taking Back Sunday revealed that a new album, Happiness Is, was available for pre-order on iTunes, as was a new track: "Flicker, Fade".

[101] On the subject of ever touring with previous members of Taking Back Sunday, John Nolan said in an interview: "I don't think that's something that really interests us.

[103] In 2019, for their 20th Anniversary tour, the band employed the use of a specially made coin to flip at shows in locations where they were playing two nights in a row.

[106] In April 2021, Lazzara and Nolan collaborated on a song with Q-Unique, DJ Eclipse and the Wu-Tang Clan's Cappadonna, titled "Verrazzano Villains".

[117] In December 2024, former member Eddie Reyes claimed on a podcast that drummer Mark O'Connell, who had been in Taking Back Sunday since 2001, was no longer in the band.

Unfortunately, during this time, I didn’t always feel the support I needed from those I thought of as brothers, and creative differences made it hard to move forward together.

"[134] Shaun Cooper and Mark O'Connell have also cited Screeching Weasel and the Queers,[135] while John Nolan's influences range from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Built to Spill to the Get Up Kids and the Promise Ring.

[29] During his time with the band, Ed Reyes' guitar playing drew from Bad Religion guitarist Brian Baker, Walter Schreifels of Quicksand, and the Cure frontman Robert Smith.