Dion Bayman - Better Days - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Yellowcard returns with Better Days, their first full-length album since reuniting, produced and fully drummed by Travis Barker. Known for their distinctive mix of punchy pop-punk and melodic violin, the band rose to prominence with the multi-platinum Ocean Avenue and continued to evolve with acclaimed releases like Lights and Sounds and Paper Walls. Better Days stands out as some of their most compelling work-tight, energetic, and emotionally resonant. With standout features from Avril Lavigne and Alkaline Trio, the album feels both grounded in Yellowcard's legacy and refreshed by new voices. It's a sharp, fully realized record that shows the band not just returning, but delivering at their highest level. The album is available on vinyl, CD and Cassette

2022 from the iconic musicians featuring live and studio recordings. The album includes 5 previously unreleased live tracks from their Trans-Atlantic 22 Tour plus the four studio tracks featured on the sold out Better Days vinyl EP.

Boomtown is guitarist/composer Miles Okazaki's latest work for large ensemble. It follows on his Miniature America from 2024, which was described by Ethan Iverson as Inchmeticulously assembled, absolutely a blast to listen to, and informed by a generous - even carefree - spirit.Inch The idea for the new album came to Okazaki on a drive across Wyoming. Unlike much of his recent work with his band Trickster, which are often precise mechanical devices driven by intricate rhythms, Boomtown is filled with grand gestures - a journey that swings from desolate, pastoral beauty and tumultuous ruin that befit a western landscape. The music tells the story of an imaginary boomtown the exhilaration of hopes and dreams, and it's collapse into destructive lawlessness and abandonment. To help conjure that duality of sublime and ominous, Okazaki assembled a collection of ten musicians saxophonists Caroline Davis, Jon Irabagon, and Anna Webber, trombonists Jacob Garchik and Kalia Vandever, bassists Chris Tordini and Hannah Marks, pianist Matt Mitchell, drummer Dan Weiss and Okazaki on guitars. Together, they make music that is by turns filled with profound beauty and menacing dread.