Then, Hard Knox or, "Are You Sure Hank Jr. Done it This Way?", a disc of demos and home recordings, will come out on Ecstatic Peace, May 26th, 2009. "[The session's] exclusive covers of tunes by ...

It’s been three years between Wooden Wand records, but James Jackson Toth has used the time. He made a bewitching, drone-filled LP, Under Stars and Smoke, with William Fowler Collins; with his wife, ...

For the avid Potterphile, a cornucopia of magical items can be collected at Universal Studios’ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. However, only a Muggle would think they could choose a wand from ...

Troubleman Unlimited Wooden Wand’s track doesn’t chronicle the flood per se as much as it does the messy, boggy aftermath. A moldy, nightmare glut of tuneless gypsy guitar plucks, one-drum pum-pums, ...

With luck, the freak-folk tag preemptively applied to almost any new artist or band signed to an indie rock label but doing things with some pastoral influence has lost its significance. As late as ...

James Jackson Toth’s solo work and his recordings as Wooden Wand once occupied different times and spaces. But with Death Seat, Wooden Wand’s Young God debut, Toth has shed the psychedelics of that ...

"What has Wooden Wand been up to lately?" It was a simple question that turned into an epic email thread with a friend a year ago; the kind where you find yourself a sudden apologist for a sprawling, ...

I've always enjoyed James Jackson Toth's stripped-down, dusky music most: It gives us the space to sink our teeth into his songwriting; his voice sounds best when it's foreboding, bummed, soul-sick, ...

First thing you'll need in order to make a wand is, of course, the wood. The choice of wood will for a large part decide how your wand will look in the end. Look around the wand shops and on the ...

At 32, the talented and prolific James Jackson Toth is already the veteran of a thousand music-business indignities, running the cursed gamut through bad record deals, nightmare tours, personal tumult ...

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice belong to that loose circle of freak-folk collectives that includes No-Neck Blues Band and Sunburned Hand of the Man bands who favour cryptic names and document ...