Page 8 -The Michigan Daily --Tuesday, September 11, 1990 Toadstool by Ronald Scott "A toadstool is a type of non-edi- ble, poisonous fungus... mushrooms are completely different." Or so Toadstool guitarist and vocalist Brad White defends the band's name. "It really hasn't anything to do with drugs," Brad continues. "It began as a joke within the band and so we kept it." And since 1988, the Min- neapolis-based trio has delivered their highly unique and often disarmingly toxic sound under that name. Currently on tour promoting their debut album, The Sun High- way, Toadstool graces Club Heidel- berg this evening with fellow Twin/ Tone recording artist The Magnolias. Destruction Ride will headline the gig. John Joyce, bass guitarist for Toadstool and former member of The Magnolias, writes songs with Brad, sings and is responsible for the al- bum's art work. Brad says the band's s live up t expressive and individual sound lies with the interplay of John's and his own artistic influences. "Both of us are interested in many types of mu- sic, that's why you hear both folk and jazz on the album," he says. These musical influences are vivid in the.group's work. The 12 songs on The Sun Highway are all catchy and share the common indul- gences of a forcefully rhythmic gui- tar. In "The Last Utopian," the jagged and slightly coarse guitar sounds like Josef K on speed. Other songs like the brilliant "Burnt Offer- ing" and the moody "Labella Con- tessa" sound not unlike The Go-Be- tweens. But these bands are not an influ- ence, claims Brad who says he shares "a close affinity with many Min- neapolis-rooted bands" - bands that represent some of the best post-punk music this country offers: The Re- .placements, Soul Asylum and o legacy Husker Du. Toadstool seems a likely candidate for the next appointment into that select stratum of talent. In the same way ex-Husker Du(de) Bob Mould produced Soul Asylum's de- but album Say What You Will..., Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner con- tributes his. hoarse vocals, piano, horn and production on The Sun Highway. On what might be the best track of the album, "The Cage," horns sounding like the old theme for The Bob Newhart Show inch slowly into a melodically soulful tune that is reminiscent of Everything But The Girl forced to play in a locked garage. But Toadstool has busted out and anticipates-a good show tonight. "We plan to do our best," Brad quips. If that really happens, Toad- stool may very well steal Magnolias show out from under them., Ir Gig's at"9:30, Heidelberg, $4. LIKe hiS Tlannel-Tiounting contemporaries, uave rirner nas put nis nand in Toadstool, a Twin/Tone band with a fungus fetish. ,. RECORDS Continued from page 5 A century of editorial freedom... I. r I I chorus in rock history. 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