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Toadies stretch tour into the fall
The Toadies , who recently launched their first US tour in seven years, have added a fresh batch of dates to the run, which now reaches into early fall.
The group has tacked about a dozen new shows onto its itinerary, most of which take place in September, and nearly half of which are set in the band's home state of Texas. Details are included below.
The bulk of the group's currently confirmed roadwork gets underway just a couple days after the Aug. 19 release of "No Deliverance," which is the group's first new studio set since 2001's "Hell Below/Stars Above." The new album's title track is streaming at the Toadies' MySpace page.
The Toadies rose to fame in the midst of the grunge era with their 1994 Interscope debut, "Rubberneck." The set spawned several hits, including "Possum Kingdom," "Away," "Tyler" and "I Come from the Water." Interscope reportedly spiked the band's planned 1998 follow-up, which the group eventually reworked for release in 2001 under the title "Hell Below/Stars Above." Five months after that album hit the street, frontman Todd Lewis announced that the group was breaking up, and cited bassist Lisa Umbarger's departure from the lineup as the catalyst for the split.
The band--sans Umbarger, who remains detached from the group--eventually played a handful of well-received reunion shows in Texas between 2005 and 2007.
The group's performance at 2007's St. Patrick's Day parade in Dallas surfaced later in the year in the form of a live album titled "Rock Show," and Lewis has left the door open to a possible new studio album, according to the band's online bio.
