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While the world knows them as the kids who sang “MMMBop” in the 1990s, fans know Hanson as a talented multi-platinum-selling Grammy-nominated trio of brothers with a catalog of multiple studio albums.

Isaac, Taylor, and Zac are going to be hitting the road on a new tour in 2024, and they announced they’ll be kicking this tour off with two concert dates in Minnesota.

The tour, being called “Underneath: Experience Tour”, is being billed as a celebration of Hanson being an independent act and their third album “Underneath”, which came out in April of 2004.

The band will be celebrating with a re-release of the album that will feature some rarities and new recordings. In addition, the trio will embark on a 12-city tour this fall.

In a release from the band, they say the tour will feature a series of two-night experiences in each city they visit. The first night will feature all-acoustic “unplugged” arrangements of their music, while the second night will be a full-band electric performance. The tour will also offer an exclusive late-night dance party hosted by Taylor Hanson one of the nights.

The tour kicks off in the Twin Cities, with two shows at the Fillmore Minneapolis. Night one in Minnesota will be on Thursday, October 3 at 7 pm. This acoustic night will be kicked off by opening act Matthew Sweet, and this is also the night of Taylor’s dance after party, after the show.

Night two is Friday, October 4, also at 7 pm at the Fillmore. This is the full, electric show that will also feature opening act Phantom Planet.

The band is selling tickets in different combinations for this two-night experience. You can buy tickets for just the night one concert, night two concert, the after-party, and for the full two-night experience.

Tickets go on sale at 10 am on Friday, June 14 via the Hanson website. You can see more about these shows and details about the rest of the tour here.

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When it came time to revisit one of their biggest hits, the Hanson trio reached out to friends, both old and new. Rock band Hanson invited long-time friend Mark Steele of Mark Steele Creative to produce the music video for their new 20th Anniversary version of 2004’s “Penny & Me.”

Peaking at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, the 2004 song was the first independent single from the band after they left Mercury Records. It launched their first 3CG Records album Underneath, still a fan favorite to this day.

The new track, officially entitled “Penny & Me (Moonlight Version),” is far more than a remake, leaning into Nick Drake as an inspiration, the song has a lighter touch than the original that invokes nostalgia and allows the verses – some of the band’s most poetic – to truly sink in as the brother’s show off their musicianship.

Hanson reached out to new friend, actor & director Natalie Morales to direct the video effort. You’ve seen Natalie on everything from Parks & Recreation, Grey’s Anatomy, Dead to Me, and The Morning Show, but she is also an accomplished director in her own right.

To round out the cast, the band invited original “Penny & me” actress Samaire Armstrong (The O.C.) to star as the original Penny – and then cast lead singer Taylor’s own daughter Penny Hanson (named after the song itself) to play a new, young Penny. Talk about full circle.

Producer Mark Steele has been a long-time collaborator with Taylor Hanson, as well as directing and producing several videos by the band. Steele said, “Rarely does one get the opportunity to work on one project with such a widely talented group of individuals who are also kind, generous, and pushing their art at the top of their game. Working closely with Natalie, Samaire, and the all-Oklahoma crew to achieve something so technically challenging and artfully rewarding was a benchmark moment. It is always a joy and a thrill to work with the brothers – and welcoming the next generation of Hansons into the project – not only Penny, but also her brothers as crew – made it all the more special.”

“Penny & Me (Moonlight Version)” is the debut single off of the 20th Anniversary celebration album of 2004’s Underneath entitled Underneath: Complete, which drops October 4. The single debuts everywhere TODAY – and the music video debuts exclusively today on www.People.com.

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Syracuse, N.Y. — Nineties pop nostalgia had people of all ages bouncing around Clinton Square on Saturday night.

The Taste of Syracuse featured Hanson on the main Clinton Square Stage. Fans packed in and climbed up on structures to gain a peak of the now fully grown brothers.

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Hanson‘s first independent album is getting a crazy-beautiful new expansion.

PEOPLE is exclusively premiering the music video for “Penny & Me (Moonlight Version),” the leading track from the upcoming 20th anniversary version of the brothers’ 2004 album Underneath, titled Underneath: Complete.

The new album features seven rare tracks and two brand-new recordings, including the reimagined “Penny & Me,” and will also be the focus of a U.S. tour kicking off this fall that will see the band performing two nights back to back in each given city: one acoustic, followed by one electric.

The music video for “Penny & Me (Moonlight Version)” sees the return of The O.C. actress Samaire Armstrong as the titular character whom she played in the original 2004 video for the band’s more up-tempo “Penny & Me” — a fan-favorite song that Taylor Hanson tells PEOPLE was very much about “getting out there, the start of the journey and the freedom.”

The new version, meanwhile, is “as if we’re peeling back the layers to say, at the heart of this song is this earnest romance that’s not a boy/girl — not a relational romance, in the sense — but the romance between you and the things you love and the journeys you go on,” adds Taylor, 41.

From L: Penelope Hanson, Taylor Hanson and Samaire Armstrong in the music video for “Penny & Me (Moonlight Version)”.

Alongside the return of Armstrong, 43, as Penny in the Natalie Morales-directed video, is Taylor’s real-life daughter Penelope, whom Taylor and wife Natalie Hanson named after the band’s original “Penny & Me” track.

Penelope, 19, appears in a new portion of the story, seen gathering with friends under the light of the moon. Meanwhile, Armstrong’s original Penny is seen in a follow-up to her original story, older and seemingly now in a more secure, settled-down and serene place in her life.

Near the end of the new video, Penelope, Armstrong and those gathered with them join the band — which also includes Penelope’s uncles (and Taylor’s brothers/longtime bandmates) Isaac and Zac Hanson — marking a “full-circle” moment.

One of the lyrics of the song goes, “Makin’ it by under pink moonlight, it’s always Penny and me tonight.” And both Taylor and Zac are open about the new track being inspired in part by late musician Nick Drake‘s 1972 song “Pink Moon.”

In fact, Taylor describes “Penny & Me (Moonlight Version)” to PEOPLE “as a thread of the new world that we’re building for this song.”

“[Nick was an] incredibly beautiful singer-songwriter that was impactful on us when we were starting to make this record 20 years ago,” he explains. “And so when we went to record this song, we were starting from this point of view of, ‘Nick Drake captured something really beautiful, which was almost cinematic.’ “

“You feel like you just step into this world — this beautiful quiet,” Taylor continues.

Adds Zac, 38, of the new track and video, “It brings us into the context of who we are today in a cool way and doesn’t forget, I think, the hooks of the [original] song, but brings a new style to it that still feels very authentic.”

Taylor credits Morales (Parks and Recreation, Dead to Me, Santa Clarita Diet) for helping the music video tell “three individual stories,” which he thought was “so fresh” and “such a great challenge” that felt perfect for the updated version of the song.