Yellowcard joining couples?!

I'm sure this spring acoustic tour has been special for a lot of people, after all it's a unique opportunity to see Yellowcard playing rare musics in a special version!

More special was the show on this March 26, at Beta Bar in Florida, for Jennyfer, an american girl who was there to have some fun and left the place engaged!
The "guilty"? Our dear Ryan Key!

At the end of the show, he asked attention and said that he wanted to announce something:
"Is Jennyfer here with Ryan?" (coincidence or not, Jen's boyfriend is called Ryan too)
She raised the hand, the spotlight went to the couple and Ryan said:
"Ryan wants to know... will you marry him?"

Imagine the surprise! To receive a marriage proposal listening to the perfect soundtrack!!!



Jennyfer is suuuuuper happy and the marriage is already scheduled!

Hahaha, I loved that!
Count on Yellowcard to leave your boy/girl completely in love with you! xD

And the tour continues - Part 2

To remember Ocean Avenue, this video was posted on March 27.
Listen carefully the cello: sooooo beautiful!



Video of coms15

View From Heaaaaaaaven! *-*

Ahh!
Who doesn't like this song?
It's so beautiful x]
And there's a great meaning into it. ;D

So never is too late to see Yellowcard performing it!
This was in Greensboro, North Carolina on the 20th.
The girl who is filming don't stop shaking the camera, but the sound is good.
Let's remember Ocean Avenue.

Everybody sing together. /o/
And I'm sure the view from heaven....



Video of myheartisblueforyou

New blog post!

Ryan has published a new blog post on MySpace.
Check it out:

"all good things.

This acoustic tour is just incredible. I was really looking forward to it but I had no idea it was going to be this amazing. Every night there is an energy between the band and the audience that is totally different than it has ever been. I have even been super sick the last 5 days and it hasn’t thrown us off a step. Thanks to everyone who has come to the shows so far and if you are still thinking about coming to a show please do. I promise it will be a good night for both of us.

-Ryan"

5 questions for Ryan Key

Hi guys!!
After all the rumours about the end of the band, Yellowcard is rocking on the new acoustic tour!
They're playing a lot of songs off One for the Kids, it's being crazyyy!!! The videos we're publishing here are just perfect! *-*

And this week the site DetroitFreePass published an interview with Ryan, the interviewer was Erin Podolsky. Very interesting, read:

Is the band roster different than usual for this tour?
Since the tour's acoustic, it's just going to be Sean Mackin, our violinist; guitarist Ryan Mendez and myself. And then we've hired a cello player - or cellist I guess you would call it. So we're just going over the stuff because we're playing it a little differently than we usually do. And we're also playing quite a few old songs off our first record, "One for the Kids," that we haven't played in probably three or four years. So they need some rehearsing.

What prompted you to do a lo-fi tour this time out?

(Drummer) Longineu Parsons had some stuff going on, and we didn't want to not tour. And we're not going to tour with another drummer, so we wanted to give him the time he needed and we figured it was a good opportunity to do this, something we've always wanted to do. It's kind of nice. It gives it more of the string section feeling, which is a lot like it is on the actual record, so it's good. And our fans have always wanted to see us in this sort of setting, so we just thought, why not throw it together and do it acoustic like this. We're pretty excited about it.

You've done a lot now with MySpace and iTunes. Why?

MySpace is something that while we were making our second record for Capitol, it sort of exploded on the music scene. We were so focused on making that record that we kind of missed the MySpace boat when it sailed. So we spent a lot of time getting ready for "Paper Walls" working on MySpace and answering messages. We did a series of Webisodes leading up to ("Paper Walls") letting the fans into the studio with us and that was really fun for both us and them. We've tried to catch up the best we can. iTunes is what it is, and I want to say at least people are buying music again somewhat. Doing the record, it was a cool thing; it's a new concept of releasing these digital-only albums. It's cool to be a part of it. I'm not exactly sure that's what the new medium of record sales is going to be, but it's cool to stay on the forefront of whatever that is going to be.

Do you have an iPod?

I do have an iPod. I have LimeWire on my computer but only because there was a song that I could not find on iTunes.

Yeah, right. Nice try, wise guy.

I've downloaded one song illegally probably in the last eight years! When Napster came out, we all did it for like five seconds, but then when we realized what it was doing, we as musicians said, "We should probably not do this." But a couple of months ago, I was looking for this certain song, and I couldn't find it. I'll admit my guilt in doing that. It was actually this Tracy Chapman song that a girlfriend of mine and I were into in high school; it was like this epic breakup-I'll-wait-for-you song called "The Promise." And I hadn't heard it, and we were talking about it, so I was like, "Oh I'm going to download that because I haven't listened to it since I was 16." But I couldn't find it, so I went on and illegally swapped it. Sorry, Tracy Chapman, like you care.

Acoustic tour setlist

For those who wanted to know it sooo bad, here it goes the setlist of the new tour:

Rough Draft
Fighting
View From Heaven
Rock Star Land
Lights And Sounds
Way Away
Believe
Keeper
Light up The Sky
Dear Bobbie
Sureshot
Cigarette
Avondale
Only One
October nights
Ocean Avenue

Super annoying, isn't it? *sarcasm*
Now no one complains about the lack of old songs :P

And the tour continues!

With a show in Chicago on March 11.

Dear Bobbie



Video from jerzim80.

And in Detroit on March 13.
where they played old songs!

Rock Star Land



The audio is quite bad and you can better listen the girl who is filming than Ryan's voice, anyways it worths to see. *-*

Avondale



Sureshot



Cigarette



October Nights



Videos from Mindytdwp.

Takeover Records releases Still Standing EP

For those who don't remember, Takeover is Ben's label, he left Yellowcard because of it. xD
You know right?
So...

Takeover is releasing the unreleasead Yellowcard Still Standing EP. There's a new cover and the same songs.



1. "Rock Star Land" - 4:41
2. "Millennium Changed" - 4:45
3. "Radio Song Girl" - 4:12
4. "Drifting" - 3:29

Those were the first songs recorded by Ryan Key on Yellowcard!
:D

Too bad it's just digital... But check out, it worths a lot!

Show in Denver!

Show on Gothic Theater last March 8th in Denver.

Only One acoustic.
With acoustic guitar, cello, violin and singing fans.
So beautiful!
This tour promises. x]



Video from iturnedblushblue.

Rough Draft and Only One Live!

Salt Lake City show must have been great.
Last year the band canceled the show in this city .

As you can see on this video of Rough Draft and laugh on 1:22m when Ryan forgets the lyrics and start singing "daram dara da ra dandaaaaa da da..." . xD



Video from amos112.

And on this video all the bands of the night. The quality is bad but the audio gets better when Yellowcard starts on 4:18m with Only One.



Video from felixxthecat5.

Cigarette Live

Here it goes a video of Cigarette Live in Salt Lake City on March 7th. The image is kinda dark, but the audio is great.



Imagine yourself watching Yellowcard playing Cigarette live! *-* WOW!!! lol

Yes, it was a false rumour

For the general relief, Ryan Mendez wrote on the topic Mendez RULES!! on fan2band.com:

regarding the lp band thread, i havent read through it yet but i assume its people freaking out because lp is playing in a local side project band in jacksonville. oh my god!!!!!!!

sorry i havent been on much lately, we have been busy getting ready for the tour. i think you all are going to love it, rehearsal sounded awesome with the cello. ill be on a lot more now that we are on the road, im usually online a lot less at home.

So that is. :)
No one knows where the rumour about the end of the band came from.
And other rumours must come. >.<
I recommend you don't take anything seriously.
Some can be real but we'll only know the truth if one of the members speak.
I also recommend you visit the official forum because Mendez is always there answering questions and doubts of everybody, he can answer yours! :D

As it was said, the new tour restarted with sold out shows, that means a lot! *-*

Stay tuned for more news. ;D

Ryan Key supports Barack Obama campaign

By the end of February, it was released a video in support to Barack Obama US electoral campaign. Many latin and american artists support the democrat candidate.
With the chorus "We Can Change The World", Ryan Key, Yellowcard vocalist, is on the video playing guitar.

Humours + Tour

Everybody already knows about the rumours regarding an end of Yellowcard.
LP is on another band? Ryan and Sean on other careers?
The fact is: there are people who love to create!
Having another band or careers doesn't mean that the "main" band was left behind.
No, no one fan wants the end of the band.
The tour begins this Friday. They added shows and some of them are sold out!
So don't you guys freak out, let's wait for official news from the band.

--x--

For curiosity:

Yellowcard
07/03/2008 - Avalon Theatre - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
14/03/2008 - House of Blues - Cleveland, Ohio, USA

LP (Bound)
07/03/2008 - Landshark Cafe - Atlantic Beach, Florida, USA
14/03/2008 - Jax Beach Billiards - Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA