After a seven-year absence, Toadies returned this year with an excellent new album, No Deliverance, and a supporting tour. And when frontman Vaden Todd Lewis and Co. finally rolled into Fort Worth, TX, for reunion show Dia De Los Toadies, the band played a kick-ass set on the shores of Possum Kingdom Lake. Sound familiar?

SPIN.com is packing up its festival bags once again this weekend for one of summer's biggest weekends: Lollapalooza, in Chicago's gorgeous Grant Park. With headline sets from the likes of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, and Kanye West, Lolla lacks little in star power, and we're unleashing our hounds accordingly.

When we met up with the Toadies on a Manhattan rooftop yesterday afternoon, we were not alone, forced to conduct our taping under the watchful eyes of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin, a statue of whom adorned our location in Manhattan's Lower East Side.