Pop punk giants New Found Glory‘s fourth album Catalyst turns 20 this year, and the band will be celebrating by playing it in full on tour with support from a great newer band, Sincere Engineer. It birthed the band’s big hit “All Downhill from Here” and it found them getting a little heavier and riffier without abandoning their usual pop punk sugar rush, setting the tone for a lot of the more aggressive pop punk stuff that came in NFG’s wake. “Fans trust us because of albums like Catalyst,” says guitarist Chad Gilbert. “We can make these records and branch out creatively, and they know we’re never going to do something really weird. We are who we are, and I love that we can play whatever and still crush it.” “We were coming off ‘My Friends Over You’ and had th...
