Awesome Underground ★ Music Review: YELLOWCARD / ATREYU: WARPED TOUR 2016 ► BAND REVIEW

Yellowcard is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and based out of Los Angeles. Current band members include Ryan Key (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano),
Sean Mackin (violin, vocals), Ryan Mendez (lead guitar, backing vocals), Josh Portman (bass guitar)
Atreyu is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California formed in 1998. Current band members include Alex Varkatzas (lead and unclean vocals), Dan Jacobs (lead guitar, backing vocals), Travis Miguel (rhythm guitar), Marc McKnight (bass, backing vocals), Brandon Saller (drums, clean vocals, percussion, guitars, piano, programming, keyboard, strings)

Yellowcard is a band that so many people know and love. And I'm the same way in some sense. I hold some of their older songs dear to my heart, but the more they put out, the further they move away from the sound that I adore. "Empty Apartment" is probably my favorite track of theirs. "Southern Air" was a bit of a letdown for me. I felt like their sound and their lyrical content changed a ton in that album. However, I found "Lift a Sail" to be far more enjoyable. It's not the exact same sound as they had in "Ocean Avenue" but it's definitely reminiscent of it.

Atreyu is a band that I always thought would be perfect minus the screams. With every single song I listen to of theirs, I fall in absolute love... until the screams start. It's not that I'm always opposed to screaming, it's just that I don't care for their type of screams and I don't feel like it adds anything to the sound. Instrumentally, they're brilliant. Vocally, they're brilliant. Even lyrically, they're good. This is a band that a ton of people absolutely love. I really feel like they're perfect to be on Warped Tour.