New Found Glory Unravel "A Thousand Years" Music Video from Movie Covers EP From The Screen to Your Stereo 3 (Hopeless Records)
New Found Glory (NFG) were easily one of the pillars of late 90's-early 2000's Pop-Punk, alongside contemporaries blink-182 & Green Day. I've always, personally, enjoyed NFG's "Ex-Miss" from Immortal Records' 2003 Punk/Hardcore holiday comp. A Santa Cause: It's A Punk Rock Christmas. Over the years, I've, also, very much enjoyed New Found Glory's various singles from their beloved/critically-acclaimed albums, such as "Hit or Miss," "My Friends Over You," "Head On Collision," and "All Down Hill from Here." Just the other day, I saw a post on of one Alt Press' social media accounts talking about a NFG cover of Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years" from Twilight. I soon learned, with some additional digital sleuthing, that New Found Glory had released the third installment in their movie covers EP series, From The Screen to Your Stereo, just this past May. From The Screen to Your Stereo 3, of course, follows 2000's From The Screen to Your Stereo and 2007's From The Screen to Your Stereo Part II, both released on Drive-Thru Records. 🧛
Aside from—or even, in addition to—From The Screen to Your Stereo I-III, New Found Glory have additionally, shared spirited covers of everyone from Arrested Development's "Tennessee" for Pop Goes Crunk (2008) to The Ramones across 2013's MANIA EP. For From The Screen to Your Stereo 3, NFG have chosen to cover movie themes and silver screen-featured songs, including Anna Kendrick's "Cups (When I'm Gone)" from Pitch Perfect, "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman, as performed by Keala Settle & "The Masked Singer," T-Pain, Huey Lewis & The News' "The Power of Love" from Back to The Future, Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" from Frozen, Counting Crows' "Accidentally In Love" from Shrek 2, "A Thousand Years" from Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, and Survivor's "Eye of The Tiger" from Rocky III. Since early July, New Found Glory have been trekking across the country as part of their From The Screen to Your Stereo to Your Town Tour, along with Real Friends, The Early November & Doll Skin. Prior to hitting the road for said tour, NFG joined forces with film-maker Natalie Simmons to produce a string of heart-felt D.I.Y. video homages for every song from their EP—six have been released online, so far and "Accidentally In Love" is... coming soon! 🐺
"The videos were inspired by the Michel Gondry-directed movie, Be Kind Rewind. It starred Jack Black & Mos Def, who ran a video store and accidentally erased all the video cassette tapes, so they re-shot the films themselves very low-budget. So, we took the songs that we were covering and filmed a 3 1/2-minute movie for each one in our style," NFG guitarist Chad "What's Eating" Gilbert recently explained within a recent AVVAY interview. Below, you'll find the music videos for "A Thousand Years," "Cups," "This Is Me," "The Power of Love," "Let It Go," "Accidentally In Love," and "Eye of The Tiger" with frontman Jordan Pundik & New Found Glory sporting the appropriate garb for each selected film. New Found Glory additionally announced Leg 2 of their From The Screen to Your Stereo to Your Town Tour kicking off on November 2, 2019, this time, with Hawthorne Heights, Free Throw & Jetty Bones. From The Screen to Your Stereo 3 EP CD, LP, and movie-themed bundles are still available to purchase either directly from New Found Glory or their current label, Hopeless Records. 🍿