There’s one precise moment that sums up the surreal impact that Louder Now had on Taking Back Sunday. The band’s third album – their first on a major label – had been released at the end of April 2006, and singer Adam Lazzara was back in Los Angeles, where they’d recorded it the previous winter. His computer was broken, so he ventured to the Apple Store in The Grove, a popular shopping district in the city. The vocalist, who was living in Brooklyn, NY at the time, didn’t see it when he walked into the shop, but there was a giant cutout of an iPhone by the entrance, and his face was on the screen. “The staff were like, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’ and they gave me a sick discount,” he remembers now, laughing over Zoom from outside his home. “I remember going in and not ...
