Toad the Wet Sprocket News

Who: WPA Genre: WPA is an 'expandable collective with Luke Bulla , Sean Watkins and Glen Phillips at its core.' The group is independent and without a label.

Five eclectic musical acts will share the stage at the Culture Center Theater at 7 p.m. on Sunday during the Mountain Stage Radio Show.

Los Angeles band WPA, featuring Glen Phillips, Sean Watkins and Luke Bulla, clockwise from front, makes its Aspen debut Friday at the Wheeler Opera House.

So named in honor of a sketch by the Monty Python comedy troupe, Toad the Wet Sprocket's mellow, melodic folk-pop sound made them one of the most successful alternative rock bands of the early 1990s.

The supergroup is a concept that's been around rock 'n' roll at least as far back as Blind Faith, but most of the bands labeled as such are corporate creations that are far less super than the sum of their parts might suggest.

KINK Live Performance Lounge, presented by Volkswagen Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 Time: 3:30 p.m. Enter to be in the audience Login into the KINK Community for an opportunity to see WPA in the KINK Live Performance Lounge, presented by Volkswagen, on Friday, September 25, 2009.

Provided by toadthewetsprocket.com Toad the Wet Sprocket, a popular alternative rock band, will perform Friday at Freebird Live in Jacksonville Beach.

It seems like hardly a day goes by that we're not reporting on new supergroup shenanigans, and today is going to be no exception.

It's difficult sometimes to expose our teens to culture. They are so busy with their own lives and wanting to go to concerts that feature acts with names such as; Smash Mouth , Third Eye Blind , Weezer , or Toad the Wet Sprocket .

It's difficult sometimes to expose our teens to culture. They are so busy with their own lives and wanting to go to concerts that feature acts with names such as; Smash Mouth , Third Eye Blind , Weezer , or Toad the Wet Sprocket .

When we released Molly Jenson's debut album, "Maybe Tomorrow," in March, one of the first things we did was get her on the road, opening for a new act named Fiction Family, comprised of Jon Foreman of the rock band Switchfoot and Sean Watkins of the bluegrass band Nickel Creek.

Believe it or not, it's been 20 years since Toad the Wet Sprocket were first introduced to us via Columbia Records.

For four days, the Pageant will party like it's 1996. So to help simplify this way-back bonanza, we've drafted a helpful comparison among four Generation X stalwarts.

It's all coming back for 1990s music fans, as the Pageant prepares to welcome the likes of Toad the Wet Sprocket and Better than Ezra this summer.

More than half of the five-piece rock group Gladstone is descended from Photopsia, a band that until recently had some regional success blending Pink Floyd-inspired prog with '90s alt-rock in the vein of Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Dancers swing-out to Joe Krown at Rock and Bowl and Toad the Wet Sprocket take us back at the House of Blues.

The supergroup WPA was born out of the community of musicians who hang around the legendary Los Angeles club Largo.

Dancers swing-out to Joe Krown at Rock and Bowl and Toad the Wet Sprocket take us back at the House of Blues.

This Tuesday, July 7, Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman and veritable S.B. legend, Glen Phillips, will debut his new collaboration, titled Works Progress Administration, at SOhO at 8 p.m. The 8-piece a oesupergroup,a made up of Phillips, Sean and Sara Watkins, Luke Bulla, and many others, grew out of a musical friendship formed at L.A.a s Largo.

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.