Thirty-seven years after Santa Barbara high school friends formed Toad The Wet Sprocket, the band is in the best shape it’s been — even after initially unsuccessful records, break ups and bounce backs ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the years, Toad's Place has become a formative element for the quartet — even serving as the venue where the band first ...

Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute. 1991 is the year alternative rock went mainstream. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and ...