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Isaac Hanson debuts new podcast, ‘Grace Unknown’

By | July 13, 2016
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Fresh off of Hanson’s widely shared performance of “Mmmbop” on the show Greatest Hits, Isaac Hanson has started a new podcast called Grace Unknown. The first episode launched on Hanson.net July 8.

Each week, Hanson explains in the first episode, he will dissect and muse over one specific quote. As he explains, “We’ll just talk every week about things like courage, things like growth, things like love and loneliness and light.” The first episode, titled “First Courage,” focuses on a quote from tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s (who backed Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker) book, Zero to One: ”Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”

Because Hanson is the only voice on the podcast, it ends up sounding a bit like a sermon, or even a guided meditation, as he encourages the listener to think about a time when they needed courage and urges them to move forward.

Grace Unknown is now streaming on Hanson.net, and is only available to Hanson.net Fan Club members.

Tuesday Trivia

By | July 12, 2016
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TuesdayTrivia

During the recording of “I Want To Take You Higher” the guys sang about pasta.

What was the original concept for Hanson.net back in 2000?

Hanson performing an acoustic version of “MMMBop” will make you obsessed with it all over again

By | July 9, 2016
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Cosmopolitan 

Warning: you will be humming it for the next two days.
Hanson performing an acoustic version of

When “MMMBop” became a hit in 1997, the Hanson brothers turned their solid harmonies and boyish good looks into mega-stardom.

Though they’ve been making music ever since, they got everyone’s attention Thursday night on the US TV series Greatest Hits, where they revived the song that made them famous in the first place.

The clip teaches us all a few important lessons. First, the Hanson brothers have aged incredibly well in the past 19 years (yes, 19!) and are now grown-ass men, even though Zac still has that long hairdo from his youth.

Second of all, remember when pop stars didn’t need insane production and Auto-Tune to sound good? Now you’ll remember what that sounds like.

Seriously – their harmonies are so good, they’ll give you chills.

Ready to feel old? The Hanson brothers are all married now and have 11 kids between them. (Taylor has five, and Zac and Isaac each have three.) When they’re not touring or making new music, they also brew beer with the fantastic name of MMMHops. It’s the perfect beer to drink while you try, and fail, to get “MMMBop” out of your head.

Grown-Up Hanson Drops Amazing Acoustic “MMMBop” Cover

By | July 9, 2016
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“MMMBop” pretty much headlines the list of all-time classic songs. The song is famously hard to cover, especially because of the weird syncopation of the its chorus.

“Someone needs to either make it totally their own in a genuinely unique way, or it needs to be a band that has a sensibility for old R&B,” Taylor told Vulture earlier this year. “Fitz and the Tantrums could maybe do it.”

“If Bruno Mars were interested,” Isaac told Vulture, “he’d probably find a way to kill it.”

Luckily, Hanson themselves were able to step up and deliver the acoustic cover the song deserves. Performing on ABC’s Greatest Hits, the brothers took the stage and slayed an acoustic cover of their long-ago hit. Isaac Hanson took guitar and brothers Taylor and Zach provided nothing but voice and barely-there percussion.

But it’s good! “MMMBop” is still a really good song. Watch below.

HNET Newsletter July 8, 2016

By | July 8, 2016
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WEEKLY PIC

This pic is a bit of a blast from the recent past. This pic was captured in between frames on the official shoot for ANTHEM, with Isaac looking especially demure. Why don’t you tell us what caption you would put with this pic?


MESSAGE FROM THE BAND

This week we are truly in the heart of summer. We were honored to spend most of last week entertaining our men and women of the US Navy in Southeast Asia with special performances during the July 4th weekend, bringing them a bit of home across the ocean. Being on-site with so many servicemen and women far away from home brought an entirely new gravity to the incredible debt we owe our military vets and their families. It was among the greatest honors of our career to be there representing our country last week, and we hope to be able to do it again.

This week’s pic looks back a couple  years to our ANTHEM shoot, with a shot of Ike looking dapper in full tux. This photo was brought to mind because we’ve been thinking a lot about all the great projects that have transpired over the last couple decades  as we plot out what will be coming for our 25th anniversary in 2017. We have some big projects planned, including trying to get in the Christmas spirit in the middle of the summer. Who doesn’t like a little “Christmas In July”?  On that note, we’re asking Hanson.net members to give us ideas for what songs should be included in our new Christmas album.  We are excited about finally recording a follow-up to “Snowed In” and taking all of you along for the sleigh ride when we start recording it this fall.  Staying in the Christmas spirit, members can also vote right now on the 2016 ornament design!  Who would have guessed that we’re all about the holidays right now?

Isaac, Taylor and Zac

CHRISTMAS SONG & ORNAMENT VOTING

Fan Club Exclusive: After years of fans asking, we are finally going to record a second Christmas album.  We will be going into the studio this fall, but before we do we want to hear from all of you. What songs would you like to see make the cut for Wintery Mix?  Submit your top five songs with title and also the artist you think did it best so we can get about the business of getting in the Holiday mood. Speaking of the Christmas mood, nothing sets the mood like a well appointed tree.  We have created seven designs all inspired by the 2016 EP’s Loud and Playand we want you to vote to choose which design will end up on the nice list.

HANSON DAY RECAP VIDEO

It’s time to take a look back at HANSON Day 2016 and all the good times had by all. Watch the video on Hanson.net or YouTube!


RENEWAL REMINDER

With a new 2016 members EP shipping now, we wanted to remind you to renew your Hanson.net membership for 2016.  You can find your current expiration date by going to your My Account page.

News Roundup: Hanson on ABC’s Greatest Hits

By | July 8, 2016
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Hanson performing last night on ABC’s Greatest Hits has gotten a lot of attention from various media outlet, even getting them to trend on Facebook! Here are a few of the articles related to the performance:

Hanson “Greatest Hits” Video: Watch “MMMBop” Acoustic Performance! [Gossip Cop]

Is Hanson Releasing New Music? “MMMBop” Is Turning 20 & They Have An Amazing Surprise For Fans [Bustle]

Stop Everything! Hanson Are Going to Perform “MMMBop” [Pop Sugar]

MMMbop de Hanson cumple 20 años y es hora de que lo afrontes (+ Videos) [E!]

TV highlights: Hanson performs throwback songs on ABC’s ‘Greatest Hits’ [Washington Post]

 

Hanson Performs ‘MMMBop’ on ‘Greatest Hits’ — But It Doesn’t Sound the Way You Remember It

By | July 8, 2016
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Us Weekly

Get ready to have “MMMBop” stuck in your head all over again. Hanson, the trio of music-playing brothers best known for their smash 1997 single, hits the stage for a surprisingly emotional performance of the tune on ABC’s Greatest Hits.

A sneak peek exclusive to Us Weekly shows the guys playing an acoustic rendition of “MMMBop” on the Thursday, July 7, episode, which comes 20 years after the song’s original, self-produced 1996 release. The tune went double platinum, earned a pair of Grammy nominations and led to the band’s posters adorning the walls of teens everywhere.

Also appearing on the July 7 episode are Meghan Trainor, the Backstreet Boys, Coolio, Jewel, John Legend, LL Cool J andCeeLo Green.

Greatest Hits is a summer series featuring iconic artists of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with contemporary hitmakers. Each episode focuses on the biggest songs from a five-year span.

In an interview with Vulture in March, the now-grown Hanson boys — Isaac, 35; Taylor, 33; and Zac, 30 — revealed that cover versions of the tune don’t typically get the song quite right.

“You know why? People can’t sing the chorus right,” Isaac said. “Most of the time they syncopate it wrong.” Tough crowd!

Hanson rocketed into the pop-music stratosphere with their debut album, MMMBop, released in May 1997 when they were mere tykes — youngest member Zac was just 11! Later releases haven’t quite had the commercial success of their first one, although their most recent album, Anthem, was released in June 2013 and added to their long list of collections to land in the top 40 of the Billboard 200.

Watch the toe-tapping performance in the video above.

Greatest Hits airs on ABC Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.

Hanson Has Big Plans for the 20th Anniversary of “MMMBop” (Yes, It’s Really Been 20 Years)

By | July 7, 2016
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EOnline

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The Hanson brothers aren’t really amazed that they’re all in their 30s—that’s kind of how time works, you know?—but they understand the Internet’s fascination with the fact that they are so much older now than when they first became famous.

“I think we broke onto the pop culture scene as young kids and I think people make that connection and have that association. I think a lot of the ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe it’s been this long since a song came out’ is that people see themselves,” Taylor Hanson, now 33, tells E! News on the set of ABC’s new summer series Greatest Hits. “They go, ‘Oh my gosh, has that much time passed?'”

Adds Zac Hanson, now 30, “In the end, it’s still a compliment because people are using you as a point of reference and usually it’s something that says, ‘Oh, I remember that person, I remember that band, I remember that song and that makes me feel good, that makes me feel good about myself, that time period was good and wow, I’m really far from that.’ It’s a positive association relating to the past.”

The brothers will perform “MMMBop” on tonight’s episode of Greatest Hits—a song they’ve embraced in the nearly 20 years –yes, two decades!—since the song was released. “We have never run from our past. We definitely still sing ‘MMMBop’. When we do concerts, we still play old songs,” Zac explains.

Greatest Hits, Hanson

ABC

In 2017, Hanson will celebrate 25 years playing together as a band and 20 years since the release of “MMMBop.” As you might imagine, 25 years of material means that set lists for their shows are becoming increasingly difficult to make.

“Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long,” confesses eldest brother Isaac Hanson, now 35.

After tonight’s blast from the past on Greatest Hits, where they’ll perform alongside Echosmith, you won’t have to wait too long for new material from the Oklahoma brothers.

Says Isaac, “We’re doing random shows around the U.S. What we’ve really got our sights on is next year, and 20 years since our first record, which we’re really excited about.”

Press play on the video above to find out when you can expect a new Hanson album, and tune in to their performance on Greatest Hits at 9 p.m. on ABC.

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