Alt-rockers Toad The Wet Sprocket, who played a series of shows at "intimate venues" earlier this month, will extend their current unofficial reunion run through the summer.
The California-based band, which officially broke up in 1998, but has continued to work together in various configurations over the years, kicks off the outing tomorrow (May 21) in National Harbor, MD. After a few more May shows, the outing lurches forward to late June, with dates spread out across July. Dates are below:
05/21 - National Harbor, MD - National Harbor
05/22 - Virginia Beach, VA - Neptune's Park
05/23 - Charlotte, NC - McGlohan Theatre
05/24 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
06/30 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
07/01 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
07/02 - Lake Charles, LA - L'Auberge du Lac Casino and Resort
07/11 - Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery
07/24 - Council Bluffs, IA - Harrah's Casino
07/25 - Minneapolis, MN - Cabooze
07/26 - Duluth, MN - Bayfront Festival Park
07/27 - Chicago, IL - Park West
07/28 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
07/30 - Las Vegas, NV - Voodoo Beach at Rio
08/22 - Los Angeles, CA - Pershing Square Park
Toad The Wet Sprocket hasn't released a studio album since 1997's "Coil," which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 album chart, but has issued a few posthumous affairs, including the 2004 live CD "Welcome Home: Live at the Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara 1992," a set that chronicles the band's first show in its hometown following the breakthrough success of 1991's platinum-selling "Fear."
Frontman Glen Phillips continues to nurture a solo career, and early last year released an online-only EP, "The Secrets Of The New Explorers." The set follows 2006's full-length "Mr. Lemons."
More recently, Phillips formed a folk-rock supergroup, which initially called itself The Scrolls, but eventually settled on the name Works Progress Administration, featuring Nickel Creek's Sean Watkins (guitar) and Sara Watkins (fiddle), along with pianist Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), fiddler Luke Bulla, multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz, drummer Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello & The Attractions) and bassist Davey Faragher (Imposters, Cracker). Samples from the band's planned debut album are streaming at WPA's website.
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