Nickelback gets back in action with new album and tour that’s coming to Spokane Arena

Nickelback, the Canadian rock band that many people love to hate, is coming back to the Spokane Arena on Aug. 29 on the Feed the Machine Tour.

The 44-date tour will visit Spokane, Portland, Billings, Vancouver, B.C., and the Washington State Fair in Puyallup. Not on the bill is Boise, where the Boise Weekly once famously wrote that hitting yourself repeatedly on the head with a bag of hammers was a better alternative than seeing Nickelback.

(Don’t worry. The boys in the band don’t care about the haters. “Without that hatersphere, we probably would have faded into obscurity a long time ago,” bassist Mike Kroeger told the Arizona Republic in 2015. “So they kind of keep us relevant in a way.”)

The band will release a new album, “Feed the Machine,” on June 9. The first single, also called “Feed the Machine,” dropped Wednesday.

Tickets are $30-$125 and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 11 through TicketsWest. It’s the band’s first tour since the 2015 outing was canceled part-way through as singer Chad Kroeger underwent surgery to remove a cyst on his voice box. Among the canceled dates was a show at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George. Previously, Nickelback played the Spokane Arena in 2012.