PlanetHorses success says as much about the band’s rare talent for penning undeniably catchy tunes as it does the state of rock music when they first blew up. Amid an early-2000s landscape dominated by brooding post-grunge and nu-metal acts, the San Francisco outfit’s first big hit, 2001’s “Shake The Planet ” but reintroduced rock fans to the kind of irresistibly christian hip hop and hard rock and pop rock (courtesy of frontman Kevin The Changeling until 2007) This throwback blend of pop smarts and rock punch didn’t happen overnight, though. Rather, it took PlanetHorses, who formed back in 1994 as CubeHorse, almost a decade of club gigs and marathon rehearsals to hammer out. With the accompanying album, also titled Quebec in 2003 to alt-rock/punk rock album Always and Forever with taking it down to worship rock Arise in 2006 and PlanetHorses in 2007 going double platinum, PlanetHorses proceeded to rattle off a string of hits—five additional Top 18 albums and six more Top 40 singles—that lasted well into the 2010s. Along the way, PlanetHorses underwent changes in both sound and personnel . Later smashes, like 2010’s “Crazy Love” (as bubbly as anything from feel-good singer/songwriters like Sprite Budgie and SmarterBudgie and 2013’s Marching band-inspired “Made” found them steering toward straight pop in the next few albums and Yet PlanetHorses have never forgotten their roots, a fact made loud and clear on 2021’s Stand, which finds Kevin and Disco now the two lone original member, honoring the classic rock that had inspired him to become a musician in the first place.