Question: which band was formed first Hot Snakes or Yellowcard?

Context articles: Yellowcard
ITunes Live from Las Vegas at the Palms
Peel Sessions (Hot Snakes EP)
Pitchfork (band)
See You in Magic
Ghost Ship (album)
Hot Snakes
Audit in Progress
Automatic Midnight
John Reis

Yellowcard was an American pop punk band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and were based in Los Angeles beginning in 2000.
 The band is well known for its singles "Ocean Avenue", "Only One", and "Lights and Sounds".
 The group's music is distinctive within its genre because it features the prominent use of a violin.
 The band released ten studio albums, with its most recent and final one, "Yellowcard", released on September 30, 2016.
 The band played its final show on March 25, 2017, at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California.
iTunes Live from Las Vegas at the Palms is the first live album by American rock band Yellowcard, released January 22, 2008, and the final Yellowcard album to be released through Capitol Records.
 It is an iTunes exclusive album.
 The album was recorded in October 2007, while Yellowcard were on the Blue October tour, at the Palms Casino Resort’s Pearl Concert Theater.
 "Live from Las Vegas at the Palms" was the last official Yellowcard album until the band announced their reformation.
 Bass player Peter Mosely left the band in 2007 before the album was recorded.
 Current bassist, Josh Portman, was filling in at the time and is featured on the recording.
Peel Sessions is an EP by the San Diego, California rock band Hot Snakes, released in 2005 by Swami Records.
 It was recorded in the Fall of 2004 while the band was on tour in the UK, for broadcast on BBC Radio 1's John Peel program.
 Hot Snakes would be one of the last groups to record such a session, as Peel died shortly afterwards.
 It is also the only Hot Snakes release not to feature artwork created by singer/guitarist Rick Froberg.
Pitchfork was an American post-hardcore band formed in 1986 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 1990.
 They are most well known as the first "real" band (after high school effort Conservative Itch/Coitus Interruptus) of guitarist John Reis, who would later gain fame as the frontman in Rocket from the Crypt, and as the first collaboration between Reis and singer Rick Froberg (the two would later form Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes).
 As an aspiring visual artist and illustrator, Froberg provided most of the band's artwork while Reis developed his studio skills by acting as producer on their records.
See You in Magic is the debut album by the San Diego, California rock band The Night Marchers, released in 2008 by Vagrant Records and Swami Records.
 The Night Marchers are the latest musical project of singer/guitarist John Reis, previously of Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket from the Crypt, the Hot Snakes, and the Sultans.
 Reis announced the group's formation in August 2007, after all of his previous acts had broken up by January of that year.
 The band also includes Beehive and the Barracudas guitarist Gar Wood, CPC Gangbangs bassist Tommy Kitsos, and former Delta 72 drummer Jason Kourkounis.
 Wood and Kourkounis had previously recorded and performed with Reis in the Hot Snakes.
 The band members are credited on the album using pseudonyms that they had used in their previous acts: Reis is credited as "Speedo" (his stage name in Rocket from the Crypt), Wood as "Dner" (Beehive and the Barracudas), Kitsos as "Skitsos" (CPC Gangbangs), and Kourkounis as "Jsinclair" (Hot Snakes).
Ghost Ship is the first album by the San Diego, California, rock and roll band Sultans, released in 2000 by Swami Records.
 Both the band and the album began as "side projects" for John Reis during time off from his main band, Rocket from the Crypt.
 This was also the time at which Reis formed Hot Snakes.
 Reis collaborated with drummer Tony Di Prima, bringing in Rocket From the Crypt guitarist Andy Stamets while Reis himself played the bass guitar (he is normally known as a guitarist).
 The band chose the name Sultans for the project and recorded an introductory EP and "Ghost Ship", both of which were released that year on Reis' newly formed Swami label.
 As Reis has a tradition of using different stage names or pseudonyms in his various projects, he chose to be known as "Slasher" in the Sultans, while Stamets chose the nickname "Black Flame".
Hot Snakes are an American post-hardcore band led by Rick Froberg and John Reis, formed in 1999 in San Diego, California.
 Reis and Froberg had previously performed together in Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu, after which Reis had found international success with Rocket from the Crypt.
 Hot Snakes disbanded in 2005 but reunited in 2011.
Audit in Progress is the third and final studio album by the San Diego, California rock band Hot Snakes, released in 2004 by Swami Records.
 It was recorded in a similar manner to the band's previous two albums, with guitarist John Reis taking time off from his main band Rocket From the Crypt.
 As a visual artist and illustrator singer/guitarist Rick Froberg provided the album's artwork, while Reis released the album through his Swami Records label.
 It was the first Hot Snakes release to feature drummer Mario Rubalcaba, brought in to fill the position left vacant by original drummer Jason Kourkounis.
Automatic Midnight is the first studio album by the San Diego, California post-hardcore band Hot Snakes, released in 2000 by Swami Records.
 Both the band and the album began as a "side project" for John Reis in June 1999, during time off from his main band Rocket From the Crypt.
 Reis wrote and recorded a batch of songs in San Diego with Delta 72 drummer Jason Kourkounis.
 To provide vocals for the tracks Reis called in Rick Froberg, whom he had played with in Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu from 1986 to 1995.
 Most of the material from these sessions was used to create "Automatic Midnight", which became the first release for Reis' newly formed Swami Records label.
John Reis (born 1969) and also known by the pseudonyms Speedo, Slasher, and The Swami is an American musician, singer, guitarist, record label owner, and disc jockey.
 He is best known as the singer and guitarist for the rock band Rocket from the Crypt, which he formed and fronted (as Speedo) for the entirety of its career from 1990 to 2005.
 Prior to this he was the guitarist in the post-hardcore band Pitchfork, and also played in Drive Like Jehu during the early 1990s.
 In 1999 he formed the Hot Snakes, and in 2000 also formed the Sultans, in which (as Slasher) he sang and originally played bass before switching to rhythm guitar.
 He played in both these bands until their breakups in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
 He also released a solo recording under the name Back Off Cupids, which was recorded in 1994 but not released until 1999.
 Over the years he has performed in many other musical acts including Conservative Itch, Stacatto Reads, Custom Floor, and Beehive & the Barracudas.
 He is the owner of Swami Records, a label he founded in 1999 (he uses the title The Swami in this capacity).
 He frequently works with bands in a studio capacity and releases albums by many southern California groups through his label.
 He also hosts the "Swami Sound System" program (previously on San Diego radio station 94.9 (KBZT), and now available on Slacker Radio).
 Reis remains an influential figure in the San Diego underground music community and is currently performing with a new band named The Night Marchers.