Gin Blossoms is an American rock band formed in 1987 in
Tempe, Arizona. They first came to notice with the song "
Hey Jealousy" from their first major label album,
New Miserable Experience (1992), but this achievement was coupled with the firing and eventual suicide of the song's author and band co-founder
Doug Hopkins, prompting the title of their follow-up album,
Congratulations I'm Sorry (1996). After a series of charting singles, the band broke up in 1997. They reunited in 2002 and released a fourth album,
Major Lodge Victory, in 2006, and a fifth,
No Chocolate Cake, in 2010.