Armed with energetic riffs and a violin player, Yellowcard catapulted into the spotlight during the early 2000s and remained one of pop-punk’s biggest acts for more than a decade.
∙ Yellowcard started out in 1997 as a hardcore band but shifted toward pop-punk once Ryan Key became the group’s lead singer a couple of years later.
∙ Following several independent releases, their 2003 major-label debut, Ocean Avenue, reached No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum.
∙ In 2005, the band performed a cover of Simple Minds’ hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” during the MTV Movie Awards as part of a tribute to the film The Breakfast Club.
∙ Beginning with 2007’s Paper Walls LP, they landed six straight LPs in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart.
∙ Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump cowrote the lyrics to “Here I Am Alive,” a single off 2012’s Southern Air LP that featured Taylor Jardine of the pop-punk band We Are The In Crowd.
∙ To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their breakthrough LP Ocean Avenue, the band recorded and released a new acoustic version of the album in 2013.
Hometown
Jacksonville, FL, United States
Genre
Alternative
Members of Yellowcard
Yellowcard was formed in 1997. Members of Yellowcard include, or have included, the following 6 members.