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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Post-rock greats Tortoise are back with their first new music in nearly a decade. “Oganesson” was recorded in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland as is part of a “larger work” that’s due out later this ...

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 ...

In music, genres are used to simplify things so that would-be fans don’t need to investigate every act that comes out of the chute. But in some ways, categorizing is a dismissal of the basic function ...