I was picking up tickets for a totally different concert and ended up getting tickets for an old band I hadn't heard about in a long time, Todd the Wet Sprocket, that will be playing at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga next month, one of my favorite Bay Area venues.
I was going just for the nostalgia trip, since I loved their song Walk on the Ocean:
While checking out what they've been up to, I learned that they are set to release a new studio album (their first since 1997), and they are releasing it independently using Kickstarter as a funding source:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...e-wet-sprocket
Their initial goal was a modest $50,000 (which is not much to produce a good album these days), and they have already far exceeded that at just over $184k and counting.
New song performed live last month by Toad the Wet Sprocket "New Constellation":
Quote:
Alternative-rockers Toad the Wet Sprocket will release New Constellation, their sixth studio album ? and first since 1997's Coil ? on September 17th on Abe's Records. Now you can take an exclusive first listen to the album's title cut, which rides a simple guitar and vocal melody adorned with chimes into a shimmering, devotional chorus that recalls the halcyon days of college rock sing-alongs.
"'New Constellation' was the very first new song written specifically for the band," frontman Glen Phillips tells Rolling Stone. "After a decade in the folk/singer-songwriter world, it was exciting to write with the band in mind. I wanted to come up with material that would respect our origins but also respect everything we'd learned in the intervening years. The lyric veers from outer space to patron saints to depression to heroic gestures of love in a quick, three-minute pop song."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz2ZLlnz7PR
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I think that TtWS may be able to catch on again with the current revival of folk-oriented rock.
One more oldie (1994), Fall Down:
The opening band will be Grant Lee Buffalo, an under-rated 90's band, that had some trippy tunes:
What small shows are you going to this summer?
ADG