Theatrical alt-rock oddities, The Toxhards, have today released their latest track, "ALLIGATOR CROCODILE", a wickedly catchy single revolving around existential dread and funky basslines, out now via Hopeless Records. Arriving as their first track since the release of their ambitious concept record, "Your Neighborhood", this latest single is a joyful gut-punch that proves that The Toxhards can make you dance and devastate you at the same time. Fans can listen to "ALLIGATOR CROCODILE" HERE.
Filmed at their most recent sold-out Denver show, the music video for "ALLIGATOR CROCODILE" opens with the band tearing through the venue before the whole room becomes a collective fever dream. Gloriously unhinged and sing-along ready, this new video encapsulates The Toxhards live experience, a rare moment where a room full of strangers walk out as lifelong friends. Fans can watch the brand new video Below.
With the kind of disarming honesty that make The Toxhards so hard to look away from, Alan Powers pulls the curtain on how "ALLIGATOR CROCODILE" came to light:
"“ALLIGATOR CROCODILE” is a danceable suicide note.
During a nasty battle with depression during our fall tour of 2025, I had this overwhelming feeling of phoniness; that every happy fan I met at our shows would actually hate me if they got to truly know me, that all my friends were just around me as a result of a sunk-cost fallacy. These feelings stemmed from unresolved traumatic events from several years ago. I wrote these confessions into a small notebook while on tour, and they somehow became the backbone of the song’s lyrics.
Coming off the ambitious concept album that was Your Neighborhood, we wanted to write something fun and upbeat, and this song went through a lot of iterations before we settled on the dancy, dare I say FUNKY (suburban, butter-and-salt-less funk?) Talking-Heads-inspired groove throughout the song. It’s an insane amalgamation of this joy we felt making the song, married with the most vulnerable lyrics I’ve ever written."
Armed with songs about hog gods, suburbia-induced panic, and love stories that fray at the edges, The Toxhards are continuing their Get Destructive Tour like a thirty-seven stop live wire experiment in how far they can push a rock show before it morphs into a full-blown cathartic meltdown with a mosh pit. Each night promises a slightly different strain of chaos, where the band will be swapping instruments, derailing songs into choreographed (and unchoreographed) bits, and crowd interaction that blurs the line between show and shared hallucination. Fans can purchase tickets on Friday HERE.
What started as a casual hobby project among college friends has since grown into one of alternative rock's most distinctive cult followings. The Toxhards built their audience in the modern way, a breakout TikTok moment behind their single, "How Lucky Am I?" that snowballed into a string of increasingly unhinged fan favorites. First, "Doombop", a genre-blending blast of existential noise that cemented the band's reputation for delightful chaos. Then, "Ængus, The Prize-Winning Hog", a song about a hog deity that somehow racked up over 7 million views across social media and even caught the attention of Hopeless Records, who signed the band in 2023.
Last year saw the release of their debut full-length concept album, "Your Neighborhood", a record that follows a young man's spiral through heartbreak, grief, isolation, and a brush with death that forces an uncomfortable reckoning. Earning widespread praise from Knotfest and The Needle Drop for the band's songwriting ambition, melodic instincts, and insane live presence, "Your Neighborhood" made it clear that The Toxhards are a band with something for everyone and everything for someone.
Stay tuned for more news from The Toxhards soon.
THE GET DESTRUCTIVE TOUR
June 12 - College Corner, OH - GeekOut Fest
June 14 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
June 16 - Buffalo, NY - Rec Room
June 17 - Amherst, MA - The Drake
June 18 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
June 21 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
June 22 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
June 24 - Wilmington, DE - The Queen
June 25 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
June 27 - Lexington, KY - The Burl
August 13 - Davenport, IA - Alternating Currents
August 14 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge
August 15 - St Paul, MN - Amsterdam
August 16 - St Louis, MO - Golden Record
September 18 - London, UK - 02 Academy2 Islington
September 29 - Toronto, ON - The Baby G
October 2- Pittsburgh, PA - The Funhouse at Mr Smalls
October 3- Philadelphia, PA - Milkboy
October 4 - Washington, DC - DC9
October 6 - Richmond, VA - The Camel
October 7 - Raleigh, NC - Kings
October 9 - Atlanta, GA - Smith's Olde Bar
October 10 - Nashville, TN - Row One Stage
October 12 - Indianapolis, IN - Hoosier Dome
October 13 - Covington, KY - Madison Live
October 15 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Pig
October 16 - Cudahy, WI - X-Ray Arcade
October 20 - Des Moines, IA - xBK Live
October 21 - Kansas City, MO - Sound Bite Social
October 23 - Dallas, TX - TX Tea Room
October 24 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
October 26 - Colorado Springs, CO - What's Left Records
October 27 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
October 29 - Sacramento, CA - The Starlet Room @ Harlows
October 31 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
November 1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan Lounge
November 7 - Phoenix, AZ - Walter S
THE TOXHARDS
Alan Powers
Casey Donovan
Emerson Harris