We're getting the band back together!
For a whole generation of pop music fans, No Doubt is a footnote in the smashingly successful career of pouting Madonnabe Gwen Stefani, who boldly stepped away from her skanking bandmates with her brilliantly synthetic 2004 debut Love. Angel. Music. Baby. and never looked back. Until now, that is. This summer Stefani—it seems safe to assume that this was strictly her call—is reuniting No Doubt for the first time in five years for a tour that kicks off May 3 at The Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey, and includes a stop May 27 at Fiddler's Green (tickets go on sale March 7 so you'd better get in line, like, now). “The whole reason for going on this tour was to have fun, try on all our favorite songs again, and to get inspired to make more music,” Stefani said in a statement—which sounds way better than saying, “This is an easy way to make to a quick buck now that my solo career has cooled.” Opening the show is pop-punk outfit Paramore, led by 20-year-old Gwenabe Hayley Williams, who was 6 years old when No Doubt released its 1995 breakthrough Tragic Kingdom.