Yard Sign is an online Punk rock band consisting of a one-man Folk Punk act from Columbus, Ohio. They “specialize in songs about life, love, loss and Star Wars.” The project is led by Scott Marks, “an elder millennial punk rock Swemo” who is originally from New York, but has called central Ohio home for the past decade. 

Yard Sign has released new song “Bookstore” which has been dubbed a “sad song.” “Bookstore” was Mixed and Mastered by Pedro Aida (The Iron Roses, Fire Sale, ShotClock) at Audio Verite in Richmond, VA.

After 10+ years of musical semi-retirement, Yard Sign emerged from the pandemic, churning out full-band Punk Rock (and adjacent) songs on the internet and “leading sing-along kazoo parties across Ohio and beyond” in their one-man shows.

Scott Marks says about the new song:

‘Bookstore’ is kind of a Frankenstein of different song ideas. I always wanted to write a song called ‘bookstore’. I’m a big reader and fan of romantic comedies, so bookstores are kind of a sacred place to me. Movies like ‘You’ve Got Mail’, ‘Notting Hill’, ‘When Harry Met Sally’, all about bookstores! Then one day I was scrolling through the internet and was presented with a meme from one of those ‘words are my porn’ kinda pages that said “someone telling you they read the book you recommended is the ultimate love language” or something like that. So the idea for the song was basically the opposite of that; someone NOT reading the book you recommended to them. I picked up the ukulele and the line ‘had an idea, but it was stupid’, just came right out. The rest of the song kind of wrote itself from there. I wanted it to feel like that middle act in a rom-com where the two leads breakup/fallout/get sad at each other. Sad, longing, but maybe also a little hopeful.