Artist: Hoobastank
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Every Man For Himself
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Post-grunge quaternary Hoobastank formed in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills in early 1994, afterwards vocaliser Doug Robb met guitarist Dan Estrin at a senior high struggle of the bands competition. The deuce chose to get together forces, and afterward adding bassist Markku Lappalainen and drummer Chris Hesse, Hoobastank were natural. While the heavy alternative sounds of acts like Tool and Alice in Chains were primary influences, Hoobastank tempered the gloomier elements of that medicine with a suburban California rut and an optic for availableness. The self-released, clumsily titled They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To generated solid local hum upon its 1998 release, and before long the dance band had stirred from backyard gigs to shows up and down the Cali slide.
Island took notice and put Hoobastank on the payroll in August 2000, and tours with the likeminded Incubus and flavor-of-the-moment Alien Ant Farm followed. Hoobastank's eponymous debut dropped in November 2001, and the singles "Creep in the Dark" and "Running Away" were hits at radio receiver and MTV. The LP went gold, and the iV supported it with a expedition through Asia and Europe that summer. By former 2003, the band was back in the studio, egg laying blue tracks for its sophomore effort. They then played a few dates in June and July, merely were forced to invalidate the residual of the ball club tour when Estrin was injured in a junky motorbike accident. The guitar player was back on his feet by October, and Hoobastank headed out with the All-American Rejects and Ozomatli for the Nokia Unwired hitch.
The quartette offered the lead exclusive "Out of Control" as a free download from its site earlier releasing the full-length The Reason at the end of the class. It showcased a harder-edged vocal performance from Robb. A year after, the Let It Out DVD gathered the band's videos. On a 2005 co-headlining hitch with Velvet Revolver, the band received a chilly reception from some audiences and rumors of a feud between Robb and VR frontman Scott Weiland were shortly filling Internet message boards. "If I Were You," the first single from their 2006 album Every Man for Himself, addressed the whole social occasion.
