If ever a history book deserved to come with a soundtrack album, it would be “The Legendary Toad’s Place — Stories from New Haven’s Famed Music Venue” by the club’s owner Brian Phelps and journalist ...

Toad’s Place outlasted decades’ worth of music-club competitors in New Haven. It also outmaneuvered Yale — and pivoted and mastered digital marketing while competitors were still addicted to print ...

Even the most star-studded walls have their secrets. But longtime Toad’s Place owner Brian Phelps, with New Haven journalist, author and former New Haven Register columnist (and onetime music writer) ...