Toadies add dates to 'Deliverance' trek

Alt-rockers the Toadies continue to add dates to their first US tour in seven years, as the August release date for the band's first album since 2001 fast approaches.

The Texas-based post-grunge outfit, which launched its comeback outing in June, has added another half-dozen or so new shows to its current trek, which resumes July 29 in Tulsa, OK, and continues on into early fall. Details are below.

"No Deliverance," due in stores Aug. 19, is the group's first album of new material since 2001's "Hell Below/Stars Above." The band has created a website for the new album, which contains a brief audio preview of the set's title track.

"Once I decided to jump I started writing," Lewis recently told a Spin Magazine interviewer. "Stuff just came out of me while writing in my home studio … so the oldest [songs] are seven months old."

The Toadies rose to fame in the midst of the grunge era with their 1994 Interscope debut, "Rubberneck." The set spawned several hits, including "Possum Kingdom," "Away," "Tyler" and "I Come from the Water." Interscope reportedly spiked the band's planned 1998 follow-up, which the group eventually reworked for release in 2001 under the title "Hell Below/Stars Above." Five months after that album hit the street, frontman Todd Lewis announced that the group was breaking up, and cited bassist Lisa Umbarger's departure from the lineup as the catalyst for the split.

The band--sans Umbarger, who remains detached from the group--eventually played a handful of well-received reunion shows in Texas between 2005 and 2007.

TOUR DATES
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July 2008
29 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
30 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant Theater
31 - Madison, WI - The Annex

August 2008
2 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
21 - Tyler, TX - Click's
22 - Dallas, TX - The Palladium
23 - College Station, TX - Northgate Music Festival
26 - Shreveport, LA - The Warehouse
27 - Baton Rouge, LA - The Varsity Theater

29 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
30 - Corpus Christi, TX - The Pavilion @ Concrete Street Amphitheater
31 - Graford, TX - Possum Kingdom Lake (Dia De Los Toadies)

September 2008
3, 4 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q
6 - Odessa, TX - Dos Amigos
8 - Phoenix, AZ - The Brickhouse Theater
9 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
11 - Los Angeles, CA - Roxy Theater
13 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
14 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
16 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
19 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
20 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
21 - Boise, ID - Big Easy
23 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up
24 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theater
25 - Lubbock, TX - Lonestar Events Center
26 - Amarillo, TX - Midnight Rodeo

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