KickTraq

Toad the Wet Sprocket is putting out their first album in 16 years and they did it with Kickstarter's help reaching fans who supported their request for $50,000 by pledging over $264,000. Luscious Jackson are back together and putting out two albums, one for kids, inspired partly by the "whole new world" presented by PledgeMusic where they reached their initial goal in 2 days. Just as we've seen with YouTube stars, the artists who don't fit or don't want to fit older models are creating a new terrain of success built on their relationship to their fans. (Read More)

Toad the Wet Sprocket's lead singer tells Mashable how Kickstarter revived the '90s band's career and whether music-streaming services are good or bad. (Read More)

Hello, Everyone. Less than a week to go for our Kickstarter campaign. So far we've raised over $200k from a little less than 5000 supporters. That's enough to manufacture and fulfill the orders, pay our wonderful team, cover recording costs, and we... (Read More)

Hello, there. This has been an exciting and busy couple of months. We’ve been out on the road across the States, overjoyed to play the new material and see the Kickstarter supporters singing along from the audience. Thank you all! So...we are in... (Read More)

Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for your continued support, we're deeply grateful. We'd like to remind you that if we reach our new stretch goal of $250K before the end of the campaign on August 4th, all backers will get a LIVE EP from the August... (Read More)

A huge thanks to everyone who has contributed to our Kickstarter campaign thus far. We are still completely overwhelmed by the response. We have a lot of updates this week! New backer rewards (based on your feedback) a special note from Todd and a... (Read More)

Happy Independence Day, Everybody! Thanks to all of you who have already joined the Kickstarter campaign for our new Toad the Wet Sprocket album New Constellation. We are stunned and humbled by the outpouring of support and the encouraging first... (Read More)

Thanks so much for hanging in there with us while we have been trying to figure out how to distribute the Kickstarter Early-Rewards Bonus Version of the full tracks from New Constellation. If you are a project backer - you will receive your... (Read More)

Hi Again, We're in the home-stretch! Right now the new record is being mastered (a much more gentle process than the name suggests), whereby the final eq and volume tweaks are made. We're actually on the 2nd round of mastering--it's being... (Read More)

Hey Everyone! We made it home from this leg of the tour and are grateful for all of your support - it's really quite overwhelming. Now our goal is to make sure to keep up our end of the bargain to you, so we're hard at work (ok scrambling really) to... (Read More)

Snafu number one: Thanks to an amazing level of enthusiasm we hadn't quite anticipated, we've reached our initial goal a little earlier than we had intended. We want to get everybody their copy of the digital album as soon as possible, and while it... (Read More)

Thank you all SO much for the unbelievable support. We are overwhelmed. By popular demand, we are adding 2 reward options. If you have already made a purchase - not to worry - you can upgrade your package. Hope this doesn't cause any confusion. Also... (Read More)