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In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the release of their landmark second album "The Reason", the Multi-Platinum band HOOBASTANK, have announced they’ll launch a nationwide U.S. headlining tour this fall.  "The Reason Tour" will see the band perform the pivotal album in its entirety alongside fan favorites and new songs off their recently released sixth studio album "PUSH PULL", available now via Napalm Records. The trek will kick-off October 25 in Portland, OR and hit 24 major cities across the states (see all dates below). Renowned singer-songwriter, Secondhand Serenade (aka John Vesely)—who is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his platinum debut "Awake: Remixed & Remastered", 10 Years & 10,000 Tears Later-- is slated to open on the majority of the cross-country trek. Fan club ticket pre-sales start August 14 at 10AM local, (password PUSHPULL2018) and public on-sales start Friday, August 17 at 12PM local everywhere HERE.

2018 marks the 15th anniversary of "The Reason" which was produced by Howard Benson. The title track became a worldwide hit #2 Billboard Hot 100, #1 US and World Modern Rock charts (#10 Australia, #12 UK, #15 Germany), following the first single "Same Direction" (#9 Modern Rock, #16 Mainstream Rock). The album reached #3 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and set a record in Canada, with 21 weeks at #1.

Below are the HOOBASTANK fall U.S. headlining tour dates. For tickets: http://www.hoobastank.com/tour.html.

DATE                   CITY                              VENUE

*Second Serenade on all dates except 10/25, 10/27 and 11/17.

THU 10/25            Portland, OR                    Revolution Hall
SAT 10/27            Salt Lake City, UT            The Grand
SUN 10/28            Denver, CO                     Gothic Theatre
TUE 10/30            Billings, MT                      Pub Station Ballroom
THU 11/1              Minneapolis, MN              Fine Line Music Café
SAT 11/3              E. Dubuque, IA                Q Casino
SUN 11/4             Joliet, IL                           The Forge 
TUE 11/6              Detroit, MI                       The Majestic
WED 11/7            Pittsburgh, PA                 Rex Theatre
THU 11/8              Philadelphia, PA              Underground Arts
SUN 11/11            New York, NY                  Highline Ballroom
MON 11/12           Boston, MA                     Brighton Music Hall
TUE   11/13          Sayreville, NJ                 Starland Ballroom
WED 11/14          Baltimore, MD                Rams Head Live
SAT 11/17            Biloxi, MS                        Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
SUN 11/18           Orlando, FL                    House of Blues
MON 11/19          Clearwater, FL                Capitol Theatre
WED 11/21          Greenville, SC                The Firmament
FRI 11/23             Houston, TX                    Scout Bar
SAT 11/24            San Antonio, TX              The Rock Box
SUN 11/25            Dallas, TX                       Canton Hall
TUE 11/27            Lubbock, TX                   Jakes
WED 11/28          Albuquerque, NM            El Rey Theatre
FRI 11/30             Phoenix, AZ                     Van Buren
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2017 marks another chapter in the career of exceptional rock act, Hoobastank, by signing to the Austrian indie label Napalm Records and announcing their next album, scheduled for the first half of 2018.

Hoobastank comments on their future endeavors: "We're extremely thrilled about signing with Napalm Records and honored to be joining their roster of talented artists. For our 6th full-length album we finally got to work with producer Matt Wallace (Faith No More, Maroon 5). We had been wanting to work with him for years and finally the timing was right. The writing and recording process was everything we could have hoped for. Matt challenged us and brought out different aspects of what we love about making music. We're excited for our fans to hear it and to make some new fans along the way. "

Napalm CEO, Thomas Caser, also commented on the latest addition to the label's artist roster: "We are delighted to work with this iconic rock act and are looking forward to the band's new album which is scheduled for 2018!"
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Close to close 20 years strong rockstars Hoobastank have kept the musical ball rolling right along since way back when. Now on their fifth album "Fight Or Flight" vocalist Doug Robb took some time to talk about the band's yearly matters from past to present.


1. Can you give me a brief summary as to how the band came about?

Doug: The briefest I can make it is that Dan the guitar player and myself met in high school in the early to mid 90's and were in different bands so eventually we started hanging out and playing music together. We then found our drummer and original bass player in a newspaper. So that happened in December of 94 and began playing in 95, got a record deal in 2000 and been doing this for close to 20 years.

2. What’s the origin of the band’s name?

Doug: The name came from a friend of ours in high school that use to blurt it out and in appropriately during class and at prep rallies; I don't think it meant anything it just sounded funny. That being said when we first started rehearsing we were sitting around saying "we gota call the band Hoobastank that'd be so awesome" no we had a billion other names to go through, before we settled on Hoobastank. I think everything else we wanted to be called was either taken at the time so the time was ticking away that we needed to promote for our first show, so we had to put something on the flyer so that name would pop up as a joke for a name for the band so we just cave in and went with that. But if we had known that would have been such a big decision at the time I think we would have gone with something different. You know it is what it is. It's a name that everyone recognizes because it's so unusual because for almost 20 years we're always having to explain where it came from.

3. In 2 years you will have been a band for 20 years how does this make you feel?

Doug: Old. It makes me feel old but puts perspective for me, how I use to look at bands for a certain amount of time I just feel old and lucky. We have so many friends who we have had since we started, others who even got record deals at the same time as we had, everybody just rides it out so only a handful of us have been able to continue this as career so I feel really lucky. It's a chapter of my life as a human being so I feel really fortunate.

4. Out of all of the albums you've released which would you say is your favorite and why?

Doug: I don't know. It's hard not to let the commercial success depend on how I feel about the albums. Our second album "The Reason" for my life and the band's life made it amazing for us, the experiences, through that record, musically it wasn't - there's songs on every record that I like but I could take 2 songs off each record that would be my own greatest hits but it wouldn't be just one entire album.

5. Do you ever look at your hit single "The Reason" and think it's made you a one hit wonder type of band?

Doug: To the casual fan that is probably true. I guess the more well versed fan who was there since our previous album did have a few hit singles so those were alternative type hits and we had built a core following then. For those people it's just another song but with the song "The Reason" you can't control what happens after it's out - so for the first part of the band from 95-03 it was all dynamical young kids, mostly guys mosh pittting and such. We just saw ourselves without anyone else there but us as a rock band. Then in 04 we're playing huge places along with everyone else who was there from before too, so it had opened this door to a whole another audience. That audience came in for that one band or song so once that band fades they go onto the next one. So those people will go "oh yeah that band has that one song" but for me I feel really lucky to have had such a success and be under the radar of those fans so I guess it's better than to say "I was a no hit wonder" haha.

6. You released a Best Of album in 2009, why did you think that, that was the time for it?

Doug: To be honest with you I think that was a record label choice so in Japan and South East Asia we had such following there that they thought, that was the time for it. Never once did the band sit down and say "hey let's do this" a lot of people thought that was the end of us and we did get a lot of questions then but no it was not it's just what the label had wanted to do.

7. Now you're on your fifth album what are your thoughts on it?

Doug: It depends on the perspective of it, but I look back at my favorite bands who didn't even have five albums so then it's kind of a lot it just depends really.

8. Do you guys have any new music in the works?

Doug: We wrote a lot of music for this last record and was done ready to go for a while before it even saw the light of day. So since then we have been tossing out ideas but I gota say we could put something out quickly but in the past we separated the job of a musician of doing this or that from this time to that time we let those overlap; but this time we have been writing a lot more other things at the same time so there is music to be recorded but when it happens who knows we may get together next month and put together the ideas we have.

9. What are your upcoming plans?

Doug: Well we just got back from a tour in Japan, so we've been busy since late June a couple of weeks on and off. Radio stuff happening in January there is always constantly stuff happening with meeting's trying to figure out what that next task is ya know? There will be stuff going on but at this time of year everything just stops and shuts down so we're just taking a long breath and we'll attack come January.

10. Thanks for doing the interview, anything you’d like to say to your fans?

Doug: I'm always saying thank you to the fans with how lucky and fortunate I am to be able to play music for a living. Follow us on Twitter @hoobastank and Facebook all those good social networking sites and our main website just check us out!
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Who could forget hard rockers like Hoobastank? They are of course well known for their one hit wonder "The Reason" which without doubt got me throughout my high school years and now 9 years later they have gone from being on their second release to their fifth called "Fight or Flight".

Having been almost a decade on Island Records, the band has gone independent with the help of distribution from EMI. They have also changed quite a bit since I've last heard of them way back when. They went with working with producer Gavin Brown instead of Howard Benson, Brown best known for his work with Three Days Grace so when it comes to this release you could get a glimpse into what to expect. "This Is Gona Hurt" does somewhat return to the era of "The Reason" release consisting of that same formula just a tad while the rest of the album of songs like "You Before Me", "The Fallen", "Can You Save Me?", "Sing What You Can't Say", are some of the most noticeable tunes that carry a tune and frontman vocalist Doug Robb his at the top of his game vocally. The rest of the guys, guitarist Dan Estrin, bassist Jesse Charland and drummer Chris Hesse perform admirably well. The instruments are heard doing a superb job throughout each of these tunes and then some.

When it comes down to it Hoobastank's latest isn't one of their greatest but it isn't half bad either. it's got a solid flow of tracks that keeps the music intact keeping the listener in tune to what's being played let alone said.
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