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Pop stars Hanson are giving fans the chance to choose the setlist for their upcoming U.S. tour.

The singing siblings are hitting the road later this year (11) for their Musical Ride Tour and at each concert they will perform one of their studio albums in its entirety.

The MmmBop hitmakers will allow the audience to vote for the record they want to hear at each gig before they take to the stage.

Zac Hanson tells Mtv News, “This tour is a unique way of saying thank you to the many fans that have followed the band for years, who will, for the first time, get a chance to help shape the show they see each night.”

TimesUnion

The other Hanson Bros.

It has been 14 years since “MMMBop.” You can admit you loved that prime piece of pop perfection and the boys who sang it. It’s high time for a revisionist look at Hanson, no? They’s all growed-up now; the fraternal Tulsa trio of Isaac, Taylor and Zac are all married men with eight kids between them. And they haven’t lost their talent for melody and hooks, or their debt to the Jackson 5 sound.

Their most recent album, “Shout It Out,” might be a year old, but you can see them these days alongside Kenny G., Debbie Gibson, Corey Feldman, Darren Criss (“Glee”) and Rebecca Black in Katy Perry‘s new video, “Friday Night.” Or you can catch them doing what they do best Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Northern Lights in Clifton Park. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday.

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Tampa Bay Online

A New Wave rock pioneer band and a pop/rock group that still makes the girls swoon announced concerts in the Bay area Tuesday.

Blondie, with iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry, plays in September, while Hanson is set to perform in October.

Blondie, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, will bring its “Panic of Girls” tour to Ruth Eckerd Hall at 8 p.m. Sept. 24. The band is known for hits “One Way Or Another,” “Heart Of Glass” and “Call Me.”

Tickets, $65, $45 and $35, go on sale at noon Friday at the Ruth Eckerd Ticket Office by calling (727) 791-7400, or at www.rutheckerdhall.com.

Rock/pop band Hanson will play at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at the State Theatre in St. Petersburg. The Tulsa, Okla., brothers released catchy hits “MMMbop” and “Penny and Me.”

Tickets are $27 in advance and $31 day of show and will be available atwww.daddykoolrecords.bigcartel.com.

Cloe Cabrera

GlobalGrind

Do you remember the “MmmBop” brothers of Hanson? Well, they’re back and all grown up! Hanson is hitting the road and going on tour. Hanson has revealed their tour dates and there are a lot of Hanson shows coming up this year. [Idolator]

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Wall Street Journal Online

The Summer of ’97 Was a Magical One

Pittsburgh fans upset that Andrew McCutchen (above) wasn’t selected to baseball’s All-Star Game still have something to cheer about. The last time the Pirates were in post-season contention in July was 1997. The first Harry Potter book had just been released in the U.K., Hanson’s “MMMBop” was topping the charts and rookie slugger Jose Guillen and the Pirates led the National League Central with a 43-43 record heading into the All-Star break. As of Tuesday afternoon, Pittsburgh is three games over .500 and only 1.5 games behind St. Louis.
—Amara Grautski

MTV

Fans will pick which album band will play all the way through during tour stops, beginning on September 4.

Hanson have a plan to hit the road this fall, but they don’t yet know what they’ll play. That’s because they’re letting fans vote to select which of their albums they’ll perform on each night of the 2011 Musical Ride Tour.

The tour, which kicks off in September, follows the formula the guys tried out during their 5of5 concert series in New York and London, where they would set up shop at a venue for five nights in a row and play an album all the way through each night.

“Much like the 5of5 concert series both in New York and London, which blew us away, this whole tour is about looking back in order to go forward,” Taylor Hanson explained in a statement.

The band’s debut album, Middle of Nowhere, launched the guys to pop superstardom back in 1997 thanks to the hit track “MMMBop.” Since then, they have consistently released albums, including 2010’s Shout It Out, which spawned the viral hit “Thinking ‘Bout Something,” as well as the follow-up single, “Give a Little.” Earlier this year, Hanson put their live performance skills to the test when they put on a 12-hour, live-streamed concert at South By Southwest to raise money for earthquake victims in Japan.

After previously announced shows in Los Angeles and Saskatchewan, Canada, the band will kick off the 40-city U.S. tour on September 4 in Seattle. It all wraps up on November 1 in Orlando. All dates are available on , and tickets go on sale this Friday.

“This tour is a unique way of saying thank you to the many fans that have followed the band for years, who will, for the first time, get a chance to help shape the show they see each night,” Zac Hanson added of the trek.

Recently, the guys appeared in Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” video as the house band at the raging house party thrown by Rebecca Black. “We work for Twizzlers and good times,” Taylor told MTV News about their fee for appearing in the video. “You’d have to have a lot of spandex, a huge tree covered in toilet paper, Kenny G — apparently that’s what it takes to get us to a house party.”