Sponge signed a new deal with Beyond Records and released their third album, New Pop Sunday , in 1999. The album was a departure from the grittier sound of their first two albums, featuring songs that were more pop rock in nature. The band also performed again at Edgefest and X-Fest that year. There wasn’t much tour support from Beyond and the new album attracted little commercial attention; however, “Live Here Without You” was nominated for the Outstanding National Single award by the Detroit Music Awards Foundation in 2000. Around this time, the Cross brothers had gotten tired of touring and left Sponge, telling Dombroski they would “never do another van tour again”. Grover also left shortly after, and ultimately, the band went on a brief hiatus. The remaining members (Mazzola and Dombroski) recruited Robby Graham on bass along with Paluzzi on drums to form the side project group Crud .
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