Hoobastank

Emo. Screamo. Post-grunge. Call their music whatever you want, but you have to call Hoobastank one of today's most sucessful rock bands. The Los Angeles band's self-titled 2001 debut album went gold and produced the radio/MTV hits "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away." But it was their 2003 album's title track, "The Reason," that blew the quartet into the stratosphere when, after dominating mainstream rock and pop radio, it was used in the final episodes of Friends and The O.C. They finished 2004 having sold more than two million albums and with three Grammy nominations under their belt. —EP