Hoobastank Returns After a Decade with New Single, “How Do You Sleep?”

Hoobastank has broken a ten-year silence with a new single, “How Do You Sleep?” The track reconnects the band with producer Howard Benson, who helmed their 2003 breakthrough album The Reason. That record’s title track became an inescapable post-grunge ballad, earning a Grammy nomination and anchoring the band’s commercial peak.

The choice to reunite with Benson suggests a conscious return to a well-known formula rather than a bid for reinvention. For a group whose chart relevance faded in the years following The Reason, working again with the producer tied to their biggest moment reads as pragmatic. The song title itself — a question borrowed from emotional confrontation — fits within the band’s long-standing lyrical wheelhouse of relationship fractures and self-doubt.

Whether this release signals a full album cycle or a one-off gesture remains unstated. But that Hoobastank resurfaced at all, and with Benson in the studio, indicates an effort to remind listeners what made them a radio fixture two decades ago. No dramatic shifts are promised, just a band picking up a thread that was left dangling.