NEW FOUND GLORY Announces New Album Listen Up!
New Found Glory is excited to announce their highly anticipated new album Listen Up!, set to be released on February 20th, 2026. The band’s first full-length in nearly 6 years and their first since signing to Pure Noise Records earlier this year, Listen Up! is a collection of songs about resilience and hope through hard times. Fans can pre-order the album now at https://purenoiserecs.lnk.to/NFG_Stores.
About Listen Up!, the band shares: “The overall message/theme of this album is to encourage hope through hard times, while also looking at the world as somewhat of a fly on a wall: seeing people’s fear, negativity, and stress about small things that only scratch the surface of what life will eventually – but bring in a hopeful way. We want to encourage hope that the hard times will bring growth and strength. So the music is super fun and anthemic and loose feeling. We’re singing loud and proud about the scars and not in a pity party sort of way.”
They continue: “There’s also a lot of reflection. We’re looking back at the good ol’ days as reminders of all we’ve been through in life that led us to the people we are today. Sonically the album has that juxtaposition too. It’s fun pop melodies mixed with the heavier, riffed songs.”
In addition to announcing the new record, New Found Glory have shared their latest single and music video “Laugh It Off”.
“This is an upbeat song based around this lead riff that recurs throughout, while the lyrics are about being on each other’s case in a relationship at times. But you get so lost in the debate that you have to stop and laugh,” the band recalls. “The connection is so deep that you always end up acknowledging that it was a silly argument. And you always end up laughing, especially in the middle of the argument when someone pronounces something wrong or says something backwards. Life’s too short to get hung up on the little passing things.”
New Found Glory recently wrapped up the “SUPERCHARGED: Worldwide in ‘25” tour with The Offspring and Jimmy Eat World. They’ll be back on the road next month, performing at the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival before a series of UK headline shows featuring Real Friends and Koyo. The band will also travel to Australia later this year for Good Things Festival, and next year fans in Indonesia can catch them at Hammersonic 2026. For a full list of upcoming dates, please see below or visit: https://www.newfoundglory.com/tour
About New Found Glory:
It’s been decades since New Found Glory’s likeness was chiseled onto pop-punk’s Mount Rushmore, but as the quartet, formed in Coral Springs, Florida, in 1997, approach their landmark 30th anniversary, they still have a lot to say.
“We wanted to make something that really focused on how lucky we are,” guitarist Chad Gilbert explains of LISTEN UP!, NFG’s 11th studio album and first release for Pure Noise Records. “We’ve all gone through serious stuff in our lives, and I think the lyrics on this record are more meaningful and purposeful than ever. It’s a positive outlet that hopefully keeps people going.”
The album’s spirit is indeed a testament to resilience, shaped not only by Gilbert’s ongoing battle with an aggressive metastatic cancer but also the ever-evolving dynamic between him and his bandmates – vocalist Jordan Pundik, bassist Ian Grushka and drummer Cyrus Bolooki – as they continue to push each other creatively. It’s the same full-hearted sentiment that colored their 2023 acoustic EP, Make The Most Of It, here delivered in three-minute bursts of the band’s trademark pop-punk sound: the shiny melodies that launched them onto TRL in the early 2000s, the ghosts of the tight-knit punk and hardcore scenes they came up in as teenagers.
That kinetic energy informed Listen Up! from its earliest stages of the writing process, with Bolooki and Grushka traveling to Gilbert’s Nashville-area home to flesh out the songs the guitarist had been crafting. Sitting face to face with their instruments, the three fell into a rhythm of workshopping and arranging together, leaning into a riff-first mentality that harkened back to iconic songs like “My Friends Over You” and “All Downhill From Here” in what Bolooki calls a musical return to form.
At this stage in their decorated career, New Found Glory’s goals are straightforward: keep inspiring the next generation of artists and continue writing songs that help their audience – and themselves – find strength, courage, and joy. The band has come a long way from their humble South Florida beginnings, as detailed on the Listen Up! standout “Beer And Blood Stains,” a nostalgic riff-factory detailing the band’s early battle scars at local clubs, where danger meant more than catching a stray elbow in the swirl of a circle pit. “Looking back, was it fun or crime?” Pundik muses on the track before elevating the album’s simple-yet-profound mission statement: “It’s good to be alive.”
Listen Up! Tracklist:
1. Boom Roasted
2. 100%
3. Laugh It Off
4. A Love Song
5. Beer and Blood Stains
6. Medicine
7. Treat Yourself
8. Dream Born Again
9. You Got This
10. Frankenstein’s Monster
Upcoming Tour Dates
10/5 – Orlando, FL @ Epcot International Food and Wine Festival
10/6 – Orlando, FL @ Epcot International Food and Wine Festival
10/10 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham
10/11 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester
10/12 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK @ O2 City Hall Newcastle
10/14 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
10/15 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
10/17 – Bournemouth, UK @ O2 Academy Bournemouth
10/18 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
12/5 – Melbourne, AUS @ Good Things Festival **
12/6 – Sydney, AUS @ Good Things Festival **
12/7 – Brisbane, AUS @ Good Things Festival **
5/3 – Kota Jakarta Utara, IDN @ Hammersonic 2026 **
** – Indicates Festival Date