As regular readers may or may not have picked up, there are about 3 bands in the last 10 years that I have expressed a remote interest in. And Velvet Revolver is a band I'm interested in although they may qualify before the last 10 years ... . Among the modern age bands that I like is (are?) : 3 Doors Down, Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback. AND HOOBASTANK. And Bob informs me, via Rolling Stone magazine, that they hail from my old stomping grounds and I looked it up and its true:

"Formed in the mid-1990s in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills, while the quartet was still in high school, Hoobastank has since grown into a songwriting machine."

How cool is that? AppleStore ... here I come.