Toadies / tba
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Oct 16, 2008 8:00 pm (Thursday)
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Some will tell you they sounded too much like Nirvana to be of any consequence. Those people are not to be trusted. The Toadies brought the rock like nobody else, putting a ZZ Top-s...
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Some will tell you they sounded too much like Nirvana to be of any consequence. Those people are not to be trusted. The Toadies brought the rock like nobody else, putting a ZZ Top-style spin on grunge and unleashing a torrent of metallic guitar riffs and dark, twisted lyrics about murder and desperation on great albums like Rubberneck (which featured the MTV heavily rotated single "Possum Kingdom") and Hell Below/Stars Above, the followup that was delayed forever by record-label shenanigans. Anyway, early returns from No Deliverance: It's got riffs aplenty and surges with just as much energy, darkness and heaviness as their early stuff, and the title track is a monster, as is "So Long Lovey Eyes." Slower, but still huge and scary, "Flower" and "Man Of Stone" cause mini-earthquakes with every second of pounding noise they deliver.
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Todd Lewis (Vocals, Guitar) Mark Reznicek (Drums) Clark Vogeler (Guitar) “There’s a certain uneasiness to the Toadies,” says Vaden Todd Lewis, succinctly and accurately describing his band—quite a trick. The Texas band is, at its core, just a raw, commanding rock band. Imagine an ebony sphere with a corona that radiates impossibly darker, and a brilliant circular sliver of light around that. It’s nebulous, but strangely distinct—and, shall we say incorrect. Or, as Lewis says, “wrong.” “Things are done a little askew [in the Toadies],” he says, searching for the right words. “There’s just something wrong with it that’s just really c...More about The Grog Shop
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