New Years Day is an American rock band formed in 2005 in Anaheim, California and currently recording for TVT Records. After building a reputation through promotion on the social networking website MySpace, the band released their debut EP in 2006. Their debut album My Dear followed in 2007. The band’s music is categorized as pop punk and incorporates elements of emo.

Band History

New Years Day formed in 2005 after bassist Adam Lohrbach left the band Home Grown. Home Grown’s final EP, 2004’s When it All Comes Down, had diverged from the band’s previous style of humorous pop punk and incorporated many emotional elements that Lohrbach carried over into New Years Day. Meeting with vocalist Ashley Costello and guitarist/keyboardist Keith Drover, the three began rehearsing songs that Costello and Lorhbach had written. These songs were heavily influenced by the members’ shared emotional experiences, as Lohrbach and Costello had both recently been ... read more »