Tortoise has added a July 18th in-store performance at Other Music to its schedule of upcoming shows. The band is on tour in support of Beacons of Ancestorship, out now on Thrill Jockey. “Prepare Your ...

Not long after Tortoise wrapped up its tour for 2009’s Beacon of Ancestorship, the post-rock quintet was commissioned by its hometown of Chicago to write music inspired by the city’s jazz and ...

It’s usually easy to find a rock star pleased to talk about himself. But John McEntire, drummer, cofounding member, and engineer of the postrock collective Tortoise, seems incredibly uncomfortable ...

Defying expectations has always been something of career strategy for Tortoise, the Chicago band that’s been helping rock ’n’ roll fans move beyond predictable, four-chord songs since the 1990s. As ...

Author Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life details the foundations of the American D.I.Y. network and the origins of underground indie rock throughout the 1980s. As '70s punk rock rejected ...

Defying expectations has always been something of career strategy for Tortoise, the Chicago band that’s been helping rock ‘n’ roll fans move beyond predictable, four-chord songs since the 1990s. As ...

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In the 1990s, Chicago band Tortoise sat near the center of one of the more interesting music scenes in the United States. The group is an instrumental outfit that operates between categories—not quite ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Earlier this year, Tortoise released a deluxe reissue of their classic remix album ...

It’s safe to bet there wasn’t a soul among New York City’s 8 million plus who hopped in a cab and rushed from Bon Jovi’s NFL kickoff performance in Times Sqaure Thursday night down to Irving Plaza for ...