{"id":597,"date":"2002-01-24T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-24T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-03-26T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:02:24","slug":"hoobastank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Hoobastank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/10621-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This Agoura Hills four-piece is Island Records\u2019 latest entry into the nu-metal sweepstakes.\u00a0<em>Hoobastank<\/em>, the follow-up to the band\u2019s self-released\u00a0<em>They Sure Don\u2019t Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To<\/em>, is a worthwhile affair comparable to Incubus, Linkin Park\u2014sans the power-growl workouts\u2014and Papa Roach. It\u2019s only fitting that the band chose two of the latter band\u2019s producers to help navigate. Although still in their 20s, these boys show a remarkable sense of melody on tracks like \u201cRemember Me,\u201d \u201cPieces\u201d and the standout track \u201cToo Little Too Late.\u201d Dan Robb is competent in most vocal registers, aided by the able rhythm section of Markku Lappalainen and Chris Hesse. Although not my particular cup of tea, if I spiked my hair and wore loose pants once again, Hoobastank\u2019s logo just might make its way onto my speedway jacket. Hoobastank is destined to become one of the genre\u2019s brightest stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Agoura Hills four-piece is Island Records\u2019 latest entry into the nu-metal sweepstakes.\u00a0Hoobastank, the follow-up to the band\u2019s self-released\u00a0They Sure Don\u2019t Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To, is a worthwhile affair comparable to Incubus, Linkin Park\u2014sans the power-growl workouts\u2014and Papa Roach. It\u2019s only fitting that the band chose two of the latter band\u2019s producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}