With the momentum of their Childhood Eyes EP last year, their massive U.S. tour last Summer, their newly released A Hopeful Sign collaboration album with neoclassical/post-rock ambient artists Hammock, and their upcoming tour this summer with Third Eye Blind in even bigger venues, Yellowcard is definitely back…
Yellowcard vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key explains, “During the 6 years that Yellowcard was apart, I was constantly searching for ways to continue my career as a musician and producer, I had the idea to basically do Yellowcard covers featuring friends and artists I’ve had the pleasure of knowing throughout my career.” A Hopeful Sign, their new collaboration album with the Nashville-based post-rock duo Hammock was released earlier this year via Equal Vision. The new album revisits some of the alt-rock band’s most unforgettable songs and revamps them with an ambient and delicate feel. In tandem with the album release today the band shared the focus track “Only One” which takes one of the band’s most iconic sentimental pop-punk anthems and transforms it into a contemplative piano-led ballad.
These are not remixes… rather, Ryan Key re-recorded both the piano and the vocals (in his home studio) in a softer more ambient style and then Hammock took those recordings and changed the chord progressions underneath the melodies so the songs feel completely new both in style and sound, which makes them very unique and a true collaboration. Ryan didn’t go into a studio with Hammock for any of this, it was done remotely — Hammock did their part in their own studio. A Hopeful Sign dives deep into the essence of what made the original songs memorable and twists them into new and fascinating shapes.
The nine-track album takes tracks from 2003’s Ocean Avenue (title track, “Only One”), 2006’s Lights And Sounds (“Waiting Game”), 2007’s Paper Walls (“You And Me And One Spotlight”), 2012’s Southern Air (title track, “Telescope”), 2014’s Lift A Sail (“Transmission Home”) and 2016’s Yellowcard (“Empty Street”, “A Place We Set Afire”). “It is such an honor to have worked on ‘A Hopeful Sign’ with such talented humans, and this record will be something we cherish forever,” says Ryan.
A Hopeful Sign album singles out now: “Ocean Avenue (Yellowcard + Hammock)” and “Only One (Yellowcard + Hammock)“
YELLOWCARD TOUR DATES
With Third Eye Blind and ARIZONA
June 8 – Airway Heights, WA at BECU Live at Northern Quest
June 9 – Nampa, ID at Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
June 13 – Seattle, WA at WAMU Theater
June 14 – Bend, OR at Hayden Homes Amphitheater
June 15 – Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre
June 20 – Los Angeles, CA at Greek Theatre
June 21 – Chula Vista, CA at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 22 – Las Vegas, NV at Fontainebleau Las Vegas
June 25 – West Valley City, UT at USANA Amphitheatre
June 26 – Morrison, CO at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 28 – Chicago, IL at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
June 29 – St. Louis, MO at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – St. Louis
June 30 – Franklin, TN at FirstBank Amphitheater
July 2 – Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend Music Center
July 3 – Buffalo, NY at Darien Lake Amphitheater
July 5 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH at Blossom Music Center
July 6 – Noblesville, IN at Ruoff Music Center
July 7 – Clarkston, MI at Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 9 – Burgettstown, PA at The Pavilion at Star Lake
July 11 – Gilford, NH at BankNH Pavilion
July 12 – Camden, NJ at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
July 13 – Mansfield, MA at Xfinity Center
July 14 – Holmdel, NJ at PNC Bank Arts Center
July 16 – Saratoga Springs, NY at Broadview Stage at SPAC
July 18 – Wantagh, NY at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
July 19 – Columbia, MD at Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 20 – Virginia Beach, VA at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
July 21 – Raleigh, NC at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
July 23 – Charlotte, NC at PNC Music Pavilion
July 25 – Tampa, FL at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
July 26 – Jacksonville, FL at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
July 27 – Alpharetta, GA at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
July 28 – Birmingham, AL at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
July 31 – Rogers, AR at Walmart AMP
August 1 – Dallas, TX at Dos Equis Pavilion
August 2 – Austin, TX at Germania Insurance Amphitheater
August 3 – Houston, TX at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion