If you’re a millennial and you spent your teens going to Warped Tour and using MySpace, then you surely need no introduction to Yellowcard, one of the most popular and ubiquitous bands of pop punk’s 2000s mainstream explosion. Formed in Jacksonville, Florida in the late ’90s, and noted for their unorthodox inclusion of a violin player (Sean Mackin), Yellowcard found some early punk scene popularity, before fourth album and major label debut Ocean Avenue catapulted them into the mainstream, going on to achieve platinum certification and launch multiple hit singles, including title track “Ocean Avenue.
Save for a two-year hiatus at the end of the 2010s, Yellowcard would spend much of the next decade and a half touring, and releasing many more great albums (we’re particularly partial to 2012’s Southern Air), which would see them shift towards a more general alt rock sound than staying specifically beholden to pop punk. Following an eponymous tenth album in 2016 and a run on that year’s Warped Tour, the rockers announced their intention to split after one final tour, extending into 2017.
Thankfully, though, that hiatus didn’t stick, with Yellowcard returning in late 2022 to play Riot Fest Chicago, followed by appearances at Slam Dunk and When We Were Young in 2023, and a 20th anniversary tour for Ocean Avenue. After that nostalgic celebration, the band turned their focus to new music, working with Blink-182’s Travis Barker on their first album in nearly a decade, last year’s Better Days. In celebration, Yellowcard have been back on the road, and are set to play their first Nashville headliner in many years (they last opened for Third Eye Blind in 2024, but otherwise haven’t been to Music City in a decade) tonight, June 8 at Ascend Amphitheater!
Yellowcard alone would be worth the cost of admission, but they’re bringing along a particularly stacked supporting lineup for fans of 2000s pop punk: partially Nashville-based New Found Glory, who are massive pop punk icons in their own right, and who have been prolifically making music and relentlessly touring since blowing up to mainstream success in the early ’00s, and pop rockers Plain White T’s, whose inescapable hit “Hey There Delilah” was a staple of the aughts. Get tickets here while they last!
Yellowcard, New Found Glory, and Plain White T’s perform tonight, June 8 at Ascend Amphitheater. The show is all ages, begins at 7 p.m. (doors at 5:30 p.m.), and tickets are available for $25.10-94.12.
More from Yellowcard | Site | Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Bluesky | X | Facebook
Leave a Reply