The power-pop rock band Hellogoodbye hasn’t performed in Iowa since 2006, shortly after its release of “Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!”

The band performed at Drake University as a part of the mtvU Campus Invasion Tour with Motion City Soundtrack.

It was two months after the group canceled an appearance at the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines at the last minute.

After a year of legal struggles in a lawsuit with its former record label Drive-Thru Records, Hellogoodbye finally won in February 2010.

This freed the band up to release its next album — which has yet to be named, but it has already been recorded.

In 2008 and 2009, the band released a few tracks, some on a ukulele EP and the first two tracks off its follow-up to the 2006 record “Not Ever Coming Home” and “When We First Met.”

The new material retains Hellogoodbye’s pop techniques while substituting the heavy synthesizers it was known for with more real instruments.

Forrest Kline is still the singer and songwriter behind the music and in his downtime worked with Christofer Drew — a.k.a. NeverShoutNever — in his home studio.

Hellogoodbye kept an active tour schedule over the past year leading up to its headlining performance Saturday at Veishea.

Live @ Veishea 2010

When: 6 p.m. Saturday

Where: Molecular Biology parking lot

Cost: $5 per ticket until April 9, $8 per ticket from April 12-17

Performances: Landon Pigg, Battle of the Bands winner, The Envy Corps, Emerson Drive, Leslie and the LY’s, hellogoodbye