Rejoice, New Orleans, for ye have been spared.

Rock and roll punching bag Nickelback has announced an extensive North American tour in support of their forthcoming album Feed The Machine, and the Crescent City is thankfully absent from the list.

44 other towns were not so lucky.

Nickelback has developed a well-deserved reputation for distilling grunge music down to its most tired parts and regurgitating them ad nauseum, much to the chagrin of music critics and aficionados everywhere. The joke’s on us, however, as the Canadian four-piece has sold over 50 million albums worldwide, making them the best-selling rock band of the 2000s. It’s a fact that future historians will no doubt mention when discussing the collapse of Western civilization.

Nickelback last took the stage in New Orleans when they headlined what is now called the Smoothie King Center back in 2010. Despite a rigorous touring schedule that has brought their lazy brand of hard rock to six continents, the band has only performed in the city on two occasions in their 20+ year history.

In addition to revealing their tour dates yesterday, Nickelback also put out the first single from their new album, which is slated for release on June 9. The lyrically and sonically bland offering shares its name with the forthcoming record and sounds kind of like something that Tool might have written if they weren’t actually good.

Alas, New Orleans’ concert future is not without its hiccups. Equally uninspired DJ duo The Chainsmokers—who Esquire brilliantly described as the “Nickelback of EDM”—will take over the Smoothie King Center on May 23. In a successful effort prove that they are both good sports and capable of creating a Frankenstein-like musical abomination, the pair jokingly combined their own hit “Paris” with Nickelback’s anti-classic “How You Remind Me.” Feel free to listen at your own peril.