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Taking Back Sunday is a rock group from Amityville, Long Island, New York. The current Taking Back Sunday members are Adam Lazzara, Fred Mascherino, Eddie Reyes, Mark O'Connell and Matt Rubano.

Taking Back Sunday first release came in 2001 with the Taking Back Sunday EP and featured Antonio Longo on lead vocals, John Nolan on guitar and backing vocals, Eddie Reyes on guitar, Jesse Lacey on bass and backing vocals and Mark O'Connell on drums. This CD was distributed at Taking Back Sunday shows, but never achieved noteworthy success.

Following a change of lineup (Jesse Lacey to Adam Lazzara, and Shaun Cooper replacing Lacey) they released the follow-up album Tell All Your Friends, produced by Sal Villaneuva for Victory Records. Tell All Your Friends gave the band a small taste of success in the alternative spotlight. The album cover is a picture of an off-ramp, marked by a sign bearing the words "exit 152". Recently Taking Back Sunday posted a bulletin on their Myspace saying that the 152 sign was near where they met their friends and that they would never forget them no matter how far away from them they were. Every Taking Back Sunday album to date has featured the number 152 somewhere on the cover.

Following the release, Taking Back Sunday played with bands such as Brand New and The Used, as well as performing a short stint on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour. Another change in Taking Back Sunday s lineup occurred when singer/guitarist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left the band to form Straylight Run. Shaun Cooper and John Nolan discussed their decision to leave Taking Back Sunday in April 2003:

“ Shaun Cooper asked his friend John Nolan, "Do you want to commit career suicide?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, I do," John replied.

The loss of John and Shaun was two-fold, as it put the already unstable band into a state of heightened tension, and it delayed shooting for Taking Back Sunday 's next video, "You're so Last Summer". However, with the addition of guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino, formerly of Breaking Pangea, and session bassist Matt Rubano, Taking Back Sunday stabilized, and successfully completed filming.

The year 2004 proved to be successful for Taking Back Sunday, with the band opening for Blink-182 and co-headlining the Vans Warped Tour. In addition, Taking Back Sunday second album, titled Where You Want to Be, was released on July 27, 2004 on Victory Records. Although sounding slightly different than Tell All Your Friends, the new album managed to do well commercially. Propelled by the single A Decade Under the Influence, Where You Want to Be went on to debut at the #3 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with around 163,000 copies sold.

Taking Back Sunday received even more mainstream exposure by appearing (on the day of Where You Want to Be's release) on late night talk shows Jimmy Kimmel Live and Loveline, as well as contributing the song "This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)" to the soundtrack for Spider-Man 2. They also contributed the song "Your Own Disaster" to the Elektra soundtrack, and the original version of "Error: Operator" to both the Fantastic Four soundtrack and tie-in video game, where it served as Mr. Fantastic's theme. An instrumental version is also used as background music in the game. In 2007, Taking Back Sunday contributed the song "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?" to the soundtrack for Transformers, although the song did not appear in the movie. In 2005, Taking Back Sunday opened for Jimmy Eat World and Green Day at Milton Keyes National Bowl in England.

On April 25, 2006, Taking Back Sunday released their third album, entitled Louder Now, on Warner Bros. Records. Taking Back Sunday 's comments on the album reflected the dramatic change Taking Back Sunday had undergone in the two years since their last release. Lazzara stated that fans seemed to feel their live shows had more energy than their recordings, and that "Louder Now" brought more of that across. Taking Back Sunday received mainstream exposure by appearing on the late night talk shows The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

In April 2006, Taking Back Sunday took part in the 2-day Give It a Name indoor rock festival in England. Taking Back Sunday played at Manchester Evening News Arena on Saturday, April 29, and London Earls Court on Sunday, April 30. During the first song of their set at the Earls Court show, Adam Lazzara accidentally hit Matt Rubano on the head while swinging his microphone and knocked him out cold. He was rushed backstage for medical treatment. Rubano later returned to the stage sporting a large head-bandage and a noticeable amount of blood on his face. Following his return to the stage, Rubano continued to play while sitting down. In a less noted incident, during the band's last song at the MEN show, the pedal to the bass drum broke, and Taking Back Sunday had to stall while a replacement was found and installed. Taking Back Sunday released the follow-up single to MakeDamnSure, Twenty-Twenty Surgery, on August 21, 2006 in the UK. The video depicts Lazzara in the role of Johnny Cash from Walk the Line.

Taking Back Sunday embarked on their North American Tour on February 22, 2007 at Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, Pennsylvania with supporting bands Underoath and Armor for Sleep. This tour was a revisiting of a former era as older songs from previous albums, and the song "Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)" from their first live appearance were featured.

In April 2007 Taking Back Sunday supported Lostprophets on their UK arena tour, along with Aiden. On April 6, 2007 it was confirmed by Linkin Park's Joe Hahn that the band would be part of the 2007 Projekt Revolution tour with Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Placebo, HIM, and Saosin among others.

Taking Back Sunday performed for the American leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007. There was a recent MTV article about a new album involving Victory Records. Recently, during the Projekt Revolution tour, Mark O'Connel found he has a spinal problem, do a herniated disc, and this is the first time in eight years that they have had to use a replacement drummer.