If I told you a mostly forgotten band from the 90s, one that was already kind of a walking punchline during their heyday in the first place, had come back after 16 years with a Kickstarter to fund a ...

Toad the Wet Sprocket has no right being famous. Everything its members do runs counter to the pop world. These guys make modern rock that rarely relies on guitar distortion. They craft winning, ...

The band reunited a decade ago and crowdfunded its most recent album, 2013's New Constellation, and is currently on a summer tour. Calling from his home in Santa Barbara, Phillips talked about the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Toad the West Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips cut his last solo album, "Coyote Sessions," in a big, open room using only a single microphone to record vocals and all instruments ...

The late '80s were a difficult time for mainstream rock music. Between the nascent ascent of grunge and the rise of hip-hop, there wasn't much room for effortless, engaging melodies and musical hooks ...

Don’t ask Glen Phillips about the lyrics to “Walk on the Ocean.” He doesn't know what they mean, either. Not a clue. The Toad the Wet Sprocket song shot to No. 18 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1993 ...

Toad the Wet Sprocket officially and amicably split in 1998 as the band members went their separate ways to pursue solo projects. In the years since, the group has gotten back together numerous times ...

Into the life of every successful band a little tedium must fall. And so it was for members of Toad the Wet Sprocket, musically allied since high school. That moment transpired in 1998, in the wake of ...

Friday, The B. Willie Smith Band returns to Toad's Place. These longtime state favorites play an infectious blend of rhythm and blues. They add swing, with some rock and roll. Up and down the East ...

Though years before selling out venues across the country, the band known today as Eggy was a budding high school band called Eggy and the Delegates featuring guitarist Jake Brownstein and keyboardist ...