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Yellowcard is an Alternative Rock / Pop Punk band from Jacksonville, Florida . Their music features a unique contribution to the genre with the use of a Violin . HISTORY Early years The band released their first album, '' Midget Tossing '', in 1997. While Sean Mackin was featured on some of the songs, he was not a full-fledged member yet, as he still objected to many of the band's messages. '' Where We Stand '', their second album, featured the same lineup as Midget Tossing, and Mackin was featured on more songs. Soon Ben Dobson lost interest in the band and left. He was replaced by Ryan Key (vocals & rhythm Guitar), a local of Jacksonville who was playing in a band called '' Craig's Brother ''. In early 2000, the band recorded the "Still Standing EP". Soon after "Still Standing EP" was released, Todd Clary left the band. Ryan Key then filled both Clarry's and Dobson's duties: vocals and guitar. After sending the new EP to friend Steve Lubarsky at Lobster Records the band signed their first recording contract in June 2000 and by November had headed west to Camarillo, CA to begin working on their next full length. The group released their third album, '' One For The Kids '' ( Lobster Records ), in 2001, and followed up with '' The Underdog EP '' ( Fueled By Ramen Records) in 2002 which were both well-received by fans. However, soon after "The Underdog EP" was released, Warren Cooke left the band due to personal reasons. The band then asked an old friend, Pete Mosely from Inspection 12 , to play bass for them. Somewhere between the time the EP was released and when Warren Cooke left, the band filmed an un-released music video for the song "Powder". The video was later put on the enhanced version of the band's next album Ocean Avenue, and can also be seen on video streaming sites like YouTube . ''Ocean Avenue'' Yellowcard's real public reception came after releasing '' Ocean Avenue '' in 2003. Fans loved the album's sincere lyrics and unique musical style. During the recording of Ocean Avenue, Mosely left, citing personal problems. The band began the search again for a new bass player and found Alex Lewis, whose sister, Alieke Wijnveldt, contributed vocals to the Ocean Avenue track, ''View From Heaven''. The band released the first single from the album, which was ''Way Away''. The song did well on MTV2 and rock radio, peaking at #25 on the modern rock charts, the song created enough buzz for the band's mainstream explosion that was about to happen. In the middle of the band's tour in support of Ocean Avenue, Pete Mosely returned from his semi-retirement and asked if he could rejoin. Because Mosely had been an integral part of the writing for Ocean Avenue and had been friends with most of the band's members since high school, Lewis was asked to leave and Mosely was reinstated as the bass player. In late 2003, the band released what would become their breakthrough single, '' and Flatout 2 . Following ''Ocean Avenue'''s success, the band released the single ''Only One'', a rock ballad which also did fairly well on TRL and radio. Eventually, the ''Ocean Avenue'' album sold over 2 million copies in the US alone. As ''Ocean Avenue'''s popularity began to die down, the band spent some time contributing songs to various Soundtracks . The first, ''Gifts And Curses'', appeared in the hit film '' Spider-Man 2 ''. Another, a cover of Lagwagon 's ''Violins'', was featured on the Rock Against Bush Vol. 2 compilation album. At the 2005 MTV Movie Awards , Yellowcard performed a cover of the song ''Don't You Forget About Me'' during a special tribute to the movie The Breakfast Club . A song on the album, titled "Life of a Salesman" was written as a reference to Ryan's father during his childhood. ''Lights and Sounds'' For a large part of 2005, Yellowcard worked on their next album, titled '' but, soon dropped out. Harper is now in the band Hey Mike! and runs Takeover Records. The title track, "Lights and Sounds", was the first single released and is also featured on Burnout Revenge . In the first week of release the album sold just over 90,000 copies. "Lights and Sounds" sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. "Rough Landing, Holly" is the second single, with a video released in March 2006. For this album, Yellowcard chose to fade their unique violin style in the background and settle for more of a rock feel. Paper Walls On October 16 , 2006 , the band announced over their official website that they were back in the studio recording a new album. Guitarist Ryan Mendez posted on the official Yellowcard message board on October 21 , 2006 that 3 songs are currently completed and states "I really think fans of both older and newer Yellowcard are going to be very happy." Pre-production began in October 2006 and tracking began on January 2007. From January to March 2007, studio footage labeled ''"Yellowcard Sessions"'' regarding the band's progress on making the album was posted on the band's MySpace, with a new video added every Thursday. In total 10 videos have been posted, with additional footage released on the deluxe CD/DVD edition of Paper Walls . Additionally, in January 2007, some sample demo songs were released on the band's MySpace, though they were only rough recordings from pre-production and not the final recorded versions. The first demo is a 30 second preview of the iTunes bonus track, Bombers, and the second was a clip of an unmixed version of Light Up the Sky. The first Yellowcard show since October of 2006 took place on March 29th 2007, at the Troubadour in Hollywood, California. At the show lead singer Ryan Key announced to a sold out crowd that the new album will be titled "Paper Walls". He said he will "probably get in trouble for this," but went on to announce the title anyway. Key also announced the album title during a concert at the University of New Haven claiming he would get in trouble for doing so as well. During the Troubadour show, Yellowcard played two songs from their new album (" Fighting " and "The Takedown"). Yellowcard played an acoustic set the next night at the Troubadour and played two new songs, "Shadows and Regrets" and " Light Up The Sky ". At an Indiana University and University of New Haven concert, they played "Fighting" and "Light Up The Sky." They also have the studio recordings of "Fighting" and "Light Up the Sky" on their MySpace music player. Yellowcard announced on May 15 on their MySpace blog that the first single will be Light Up The Sky . The track listing for the album, posted on AbsolutePunk.net and has been confirmed as real by Ryan Mendez, includes 13 songs. |
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