TheOnion said:

The one-time heroes of Texas rock, The Toadies were supposed to be huge. Their singles “Possum Kingdom” and “Tyler” were all over national radio and MTV (“Kingdom” was even immortalized in Xbox’s Guitar Hero II), and in mid-’90s Dallas there was no band more well-liked than this batch of ordinary Fort Worth kids—the ultimate in locals-made-good. Unfortunately, the band couldn’t take the pressures of success, and following the critical and commercial failure of Hell Below/Stars Above (which even an Elliott Smith cameo couldn’t save), the band was officially relegated to the post-grunge dustbin when bassist Lisa Umbarger decided she’d had enough. These days, singer Vaden “Todd” Lewis spins his wheels in The Burden Brothers, but reformed his old group last year (with Baboon bassist Mark Hughes standing in for Umbarger) for a few successful reunion shows that have apparently reinvigorated the band.