3 Feet High & Rising: The All-American Rejects' Tyson Ritter Announces New Band Now More Than Ever with Izzy Fontaine & Scott Chesak (Creatrix Music/Thirty Tigers)

Now More Than Ever, L-R: Tyson Ritter, Scott Chesak & Izzy Fontaine (SOURCE: @nowmorethaneverband on Instagram)

Now More Than Ever is a new musical group featuring Tyson Ritter, Scott Chesak & Isaac Bolivar AKA Izzy Fontaine. Ritter is, of course, the frontman of The All-American Rejects, as well as an esteemed actor, painter, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, and model, also, functioning solo in recent years as Sharpton Mann. Chesak is producer, song-writer, session musician, and touring musician, who has worked with (in one capacity or another) The All-American Rejects, Weezer, Panic! At The Disco, Direct Hit!, Red City Radio, Screeching Weasel, Gerard Way, Lykke Li, Big Red Machine, Bishop Briggs, Adam Lambert, Christina Perri, Lea Michele, and his own project, The Old Days. Fontaine is a self-described "guitarist, abletonist, and music directorist," who has worked with Seal, Taking Back Sunday, Glassjaw, Tegan & Sara, BANKS, No Machine, RARE FUTURES////, FUTURECASTLE with Gavin Castleton, Happy Body Slow Brain, The Night Game, and Two Minutes to Late Night's covers series. Scott Chesak has served as a touring musician for The All-American Rejects, as well as late night, television, and assorted media appearances, providing piano, backing vocals, guitar, percussion since 2011 and bass guitar since 2014.

Now More Than Ever (N>E) has been in-the-works and/or teased for quite a few years now and last night, Tyson, Scott & Izzy finally droped their debut single together. "Don't Rush, Don't Wait" went live on streaming services late last night, accompanied by a spaced out music video directed by Jon Danovic. It sound ssimilar to The All-American Rejects' beloved output, although, a little bit less Pop-punk/Emo and slightly more electronic, futuristic, and simplistic. We would describe it as something along the lines of Power Pop or Dream Pop akin to Churches, Free Energy, Beach House, and/or My Bloody Valentine. Here's hoping we get to hear more atmospheric tunes from Now More Than Ever much sooner than later. We suggest following Now More Than Ever on their various social media pages to stay in the know with future music updates. "Don't Rush, Don't Wait" is now available on stremaing services. Along with the release of "Don't Rush, Don't Wait," Now More Than Ever quietly shared pre-order information for vinyl and T-shirt packages for their debut album. Now More Than Ever's Creatrix will be released March 17, 2023 on Creatrix Records/Thirty Tigers. Pre-order packages are expected to ship out in early March 2023.

Now More Than Ever, L-R clockwise: Tyson Ritter, Izzy Fontaine & Scott Chesak (SOURCE: Now More Than Ever on Facebook)

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