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The Toadies @ Lollapalooza

Reunion tours are capable of taking the public by surprise: "That band is getting back together?"

But in certain cases, the band members themselves can be caught unaware. That's more or less what happened with the Toadies, an act not much heard from since it splintered a half dozen years ago, and one that's been out of the brightest of spotlights since the song "Possum Kingdom" was a major alternative-rock hit in the mid-'90s.

The notion of a reunion dawned on Vaden Todd Lewis when he was writing songs in his Fort Worth, Texas, home last year -- after his most recent band, Burden Brothers, fell apart. [STLToday]

Toadies recently sold out and played Bowery Ballroom before I even realized they were a band again (they played on a NYC rooftop that same night). I actually wasn't personally looking for them to be a band again, but more and more people I talk to are excited about it and Zach managed to catch them at Lollapalooza. Time Out Chicago was there too. They wrote...
I vaguely recall the Toadies from the heyday of alternative, when bands that sounded like Puddle of Mudd covering ZZ Top could slide a song on radio playlists. I'm not sure what's most shocking--that I recognize "Backslider," the grey-haired age of the players (were the '90s that long ago?), or the horde of Toad-heads (I think/hope I just made that up) gong nuts to hear this.
Tickets are now on sale for upcoming shows at Webster Hall and Starland Ballroom. More Lolla pics and all tour dates below...

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