New Found Glory's Jordan Pundik Talks Sticks and Stones, 25 Years of Pop-Punk & Touring Stories
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Pundik is the lead vocalist and founding member of New Found Glory, helping form the band in 1997 and becoming one of the defining voices of early-2000s pop-punk. His vocals powered breakthrough albums like Sticks and Stones and Catalyst, with songs like "My Friends Over You" becoming staples of the genre. Over three decades, Pundik has remained the band's frontman and a driving force behind their touring success and influence on modern pop-punk.
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| 0:00.0 | What's the song from Catalyst that's always like super high, |
| 0:02.7 | besides all of them? |
| 0:04.5 | I'm in and out of conversation. Digga-dig-dig-dig-dig-d-d-d-dig-d-d- Why can I think of the song title right now? My friends over you got on the radio and us in taking back Sunday, we parked next to each other a lot and we just hung out a bunch with them, and then came with Mark, Poppice too. And we all got pizza after the show. |
| 0:21.0 | We did a version of hit or miss with Jerry Finn, |
| 0:23.5 | who produced like, En pizza after the show. |
| 0:21.0 | We did a version of Hit or Miss with Jerry Finn, who produced, like, Anim of the State and, like, a bunch of stuff. And he was, like, you guys heard of that band, so I'm 41? And we're like, no. And he had this, like, BHS. And it was, like, all this behind the scenes. Did your mom ever pay back the band from stealing the CDs? That is such a, I feel like that's like a made up story that Ian tells because I don't know |
| 0:42.2 | if that actually really happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry of my voice |
| 0:47.6 | is hoarse. We did like a whole weekend of promo for the record. Yes, we're a few days out now. |
| 0:53.5 | Oh yeah. Yeah. How does it feel at this point? |
| 0:56.1 | It's nice to like it's nice for for me to see the reaction because you work on it for so long and you |
| 1:03.7 | have this expectation, you know, which I actually, I take that back. I don't really have expectation, |
| 1:08.7 | you know, but when it exceeds what I feel like it should be, that's always nice. So the initial fan response has been positive in, like, just loving it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have a favorite song off the album? Yeah, I have... Medicine is one of them, and there's no one called Love Song that's really fun that we just did a video for. |
| 1:30.0 | Savannah Moss, who's a TikToker. |
| 1:44.9 | She's so good at her stuff. Yeah, it's so funny and so fun. And she did the whole video herself. So I'm only in it for like five seconds, which is great. Does she live here where you guys did it? She met me down in San Diego. So we did like when I had to film my parts and a lot of the parts that she did herself were down in Mission Beach like at the old roller coaster and stuff. |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah, it was fun, super fun. |
| 1:49.8 | What is the most challenging part for you now as a writer at this point in your career |
| 1:55.1 | this many albums in? |
| 1:58.2 | Probably like coming up with new ideas and |
| 2:02.7 | trying to make every record |
| 2:05.9 | like the best it could be you know because we've been |
| 2:07.7 | doing it for I mean shoot 30 years almost now which is weird |
| 2:11.5 | to think about do you try and avoid past topics as |
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