Our pals in Toadies have hooked us up with a few guest list spots to giveaway
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
MAGIC STICK
Detroit MI USA
8PM * $15/17 * All Ages
Toadies are a post-grunge band from Fort Worth, Texas.
They are best known for the hit single “Possum Kingdom,” from their album Rubberneck. This song was named after Possum Kingdom State Park, in Palo Pinto County, Texas. “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 cool… and unique in a slightly uncomfortable way.”This sick, twisted essence was first exemplified on the band’s 1994 debut, Rubberneck (Interscope). An intense, swirling vortex of guitar rock built around Lewis’s “wrong” songs—like the smash single “Possum Kingdom,”subject to as much speculation as what’s in the Pulp Fiction briefcase, it rocketed to platinum status on the strength of that and two other singles,“Tyler” and “Away.” Its success was due to the Toadies’ organic sound and all-encompassing style, which they aimed to continue on their next album.
