The singer sounds a little like a cross between Billie Joe from Green Day and Dexter from Offspring, but with some vocal coaching. The band sounds a little like a cross between nearly every nu-metal, modern-rock and post-grunge outfit from San Diego to Staten Island. Put 'em together and add all the stereotypical trappings -- the brittle guitar shred, the hip-hop-flavoured drum wallop, the multi-layered harmonies, yadda, yadda, yadda -- and you have Hoobastank, the latest in an ever-growing line of cookie-cutter, pretty-boy, here-today-and-gone-tomorrow rock bands. Yes, they have a few good songs. Too bad they have fewer new ideas to go with them. Pass.

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