Video of the Day - Sponge, "Molly"

This week in reunions... Toad the Wet Sprocket

* For the second year in a row, Toad the Wet Sprocket have reunited to do some summer dates. Just like last year, don't expect a new album. I contemplated going to see them here in Atlanta this Sunday, but tickets are $35, so... probably not.

* Not sure if this qualifies as a reunion, given that all three bands have kept going for the last decade in varying combinations (most with just the lead singer remaining as an original member), but Seven Mary Three, Sponge, and Days of the New are doing a package tour this summer, mostly in casinos and small clubs. I've got some Seven Mary Three content I've been meaning to put up; I'll try to do that soon.

* Stone Temple Pilots are back at it this summer, for a couple of weeks at least; they're touring the northeastern US and Canada from July 7-18. Meanwhile, Scott Weiland's doing some West Coast solo shows this month.

* Oh, and LFO are back together, but right now it's just for one show in New York. And I don't care what you think, this song was pretty good:

Cruisin' with Sponge and Marcy Playground

The hot thing in recent years for '90s bands is to do a cruise... you get a captive audience of your fans that you can play four or five sets to, and you get to go on a free cruise. Better than Ezra did a cruise, Guster have done a cruise, Barenaked Ladies have done a cruise... Sister Hazel and Dexter Freebish have done cruises.

But a cruise with Sponge and Marcy Playground? That's an odd bill. Who out there is a diehard fan of both of these bands? Sponge were basically off the radar by the time Marcy Playground ever had a hit.
Anyway, Sponge have a new album, Galore Galore, out on indie Bellum Records, and are playing sporadic dates in May and June (all east of the Mississippi) prior to the cruise in October. Marcy Playground don't appear to have done much since MP3 in 2004, which had the single "Punk Rock Superstar." That was a pretty good track.



*As an aside, how great is that Marcy Playground album cover? Supposedly it was originally supposed to be a Butthole Surfers album cover, but after it was rejected, Marcy took it.