Scoring Goals with a Yellowcard

As we've seen multiple times in these past discussions, the record companies seem at fault when concerned with the health of the music industry. Greedy corporate industry preying upon the (mostly) talented musicians that produce audible works of art shames and defaces the image of the music industry. Fear not, dear citizens, for I have seen the beautiful flower in this relationship between contract signers and keepers, and its name is Yellowcard.

From humble beginnings to avid rock stars, the members of Yellowcard enjoyed a blissful, healthy relationship with the record company that produced their early popular albums, Capitol Records. The band was on top of the world for a brief moment, before they announced an 'indefinite hiatus,' meaning the band was going to take a break from producing music for an undetermined amount of time. Two years later, the band drops their contract with Capitol records and produces their latest album, “When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes” with Hopeless records, a lesser known 'indie' record company. Sean Mackin, the violinist of the punk pop band, stated in a later interview the breakup between Capitol Records was on positive terms, or at the very least, non-negative terms.

 “[...]we had a great relationship with our old record label until they got bought out and restructured.” Sean reported to Infectious Magazine.

Sean went on further to talk about their new partners in producing, Hopeless Records, with great enthusiasm.

“We still feel like the only band on Hopeless Records, and they’re really focused on making sure everyone has the new Yellowcard record and we’re working very hard just to make sure that we can be as successful and take advantage of every opportunity. You can’t ask for anything more in any situation.“

Hopeless Records and, for a time, Capitol Records treated Yellowcard with mutual respect and dignity, not careless greed and manipulation. While not a major contributing factor to the band's success, I feel the band was not hindered by interacting with their managers, as so many other bands seem to have this problem. I feel if other major contributing record companies would follow this beautiful relationship Yellowcard and Hopeless records have developed, the music industry would be better for this change.

Written by Matt Prince <http://chordsandcords.blogspot.com/>

Source(s):

 DeAndrea, J. (2008, April 28). Yellowcard on Indefinite Hiatus - News Article . AbsolutePunk.net - Music

     Mends Broken Hearts. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from http://www.absolutepunk.net

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Yellowcard. (2011; May 13). Infectious Magazine . Retrieved November 22, 2011, from

     http://www.infectiousmagazine.com/yellowcard/