Yellowcard expand Better Days with deluxe edition and previously unreleased "Calvary Drive"

Yellowcard release a deluxe edition of Better Days on 18 September via Better Noise, expanding the album with previously unreleased track "Calvary Drive" and additional collaborations. The pop-punk band recorded the original material with producer Travis Barker, who connected them with Avril Lavigne for the ballad "You Broke Me Too".

Celebrating a creative renaissance in 2026, multi-platinum pop-punk royalty **[Yellowcard](https://us.list-manage.com/13DmrkKbkVa?e=c982cfcc7a&c2id=8df4eb0d792325807e8f2eb2abb2bd4e)**** **brighten up a banner year with the release of their brand new, digital-only **Deluxe Edition** of ***Better Days*** on **September 18** via **Better Noise**. Teasing this expanded version, the group also just served up a new and and previously unreleased song, entitled "**Calvary Drive**," out now.

Listen to "Calvary Drive”
**[https://yellowcardofficial.lnk.to/CalvaryDrive](https://yellowcardofficial.lnk.to/CalvaryDrive)**

[Watch on YouTube](https://youtu.be/ZRrjDzpPa84?si=G0rkP8sij6kg9U9C)

Pre-order/Pre-save ***Better Days (Deluxe Edition)*** here
[https://yellowcardofficial.lnk.to/bddeluxe](https://yellowcardofficial.lnk.to/bddeluxe)

"Calvary Drive" finds Yellowcard firing on all cylinders yet again. It bursts to life with driving guitars, infectious hooks, and the kind of kinetic energy that's become the band's trademark. It culminates on an anthemic chorus spiked with a sunny melody and showcases every bit of what fans have come to love and expect from the four-piece.

"'Calvary Drive' was the very first demo we worked on with **Travis Barker** and our friend Nick Long," says singer** Ryan Key**. "We were just getting a feel for working together over a weekend and had no idea that this idea would be the spark for what became *Better Days*. It’s fun to listen back now and hear where we started, and how much the sound evolved from there.”

Barker fondly recalls the experience as “such an easy project and easy group of guys to make music with,” with the whole band fully invested in the process: “Everyone in the band was really active and really a part of everything in the studio.” One song became another, a day became weeks, and before long an entire record had emerged from a collaboration that was never originally intended to go that far. “Next thing you know it was like we’re getting back in the studio and we were scheduling weeks to work with each other and recorded an entire album.” What began as Travis Barker simply jumping in for a day had organically become the album *Better Days*. And it's that partnership that blossomed into a collaboration with another legacy hitmaker:** Avril Lavigne**.

"My friend Travis [Barker] called me up to say he was producing the new Yellowcard album and I really liked what I heard," Lavigne shared. "When he played me 'You Broke Me Too,' I liked how it can be an anthem people can relate to when finding hope after a relationship." The pairing felt particularly fitting: a song conceived in the spirit of the huge, emotionally charged ballads that helped define the early 2000s ultimately brought together two artists synonymous with that era, with Barker acting as the bridge between them.

The new material notably lands in the wake of the cross-generational phenomenon "**Bedroom Posters"** (Feat. **Blippi**). The reimagined track landed looks from Rock Sound and New Noise Magazine, who applauded how, "This version of the song preserves the original's high-spirit energy and Blippi adds his own distinctive spark to it." "Bedroom Posters" marked their second collab with Blippi following "**Go Go Go**."

At the top of the year, the band teamed up with **Good Charlotte** for the first collaborative version of "**Bedroom Posters**." Popping off as a match made in pop-punk heaven, it tallied 2.6 million Spotify streams and vaulted to #1 on the *Billboard *Alternative Airplay Chart. A piece on [Consequence](https://us.list-manage.com/4kh7b_LxR8T?e=c982cfcc7a&c2id=8df4eb0d792325807e8f2eb2abb2bd4e) applauded how "the song finds Key trading vocals with Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden," while *[Rolling Stone](https://us.list-manage.com/vCc4Mv29kYU?e=c982cfcc7a&c2id=8df4eb0d792325807e8f2eb2abb2bd4e)* put it best: "It's the collaboration made in pop-punk dreams."

Two #1 singles coming from the one album, this signals not only a return to form, but a undeniable triumph; a band that still cuts through the noise nearly three decades into their career.

***BETTER DAYS *****(DELUXE EDITION) TRACK LISTING:**

"Better Days"
"Take What You Want"
"Love Letters Lost" (Feat. Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio)
"honestly i"
"You Broke Me Too" (Feat. Avril Lavigne)"
"City of Angels"
"Bedroom Posters"
"Skin Scraped"
"Barely Alive"
"Big Blue Eyes"
"[Calvary Drive](https://us.list-manage.com/19I9hoaEsCo?e=c982cfcc7a&c2id=8df4eb0d792325807e8f2eb2abb2bd4e)"
"Hell With Me" (Feat. Steve Aoki)
"Bedroom Posters" (Feat. Good Charlotte)
"Better Days" (Asleep Version)

![White keyboard instrument with decorative star design against pale blue background displaying "Better Days" and "Yellowcard" text.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/08/d48e71ca-bb25-481a-b2b7-511cdfb1c49d.png)