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 ...

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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 ...

The 22-year-old pop phenom’s father is John Herndon of the post-rock band Tortoise. They chatted about songwriting, nepotism ...

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 ...

Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 30 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout ...

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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 ...

More than three decades into their career, Chicago-born instrumental ensemble Tortoise still exemplify the ideals of what’s come to be known as “postrock.” This has less to do with adhering to a ...

Tom Moon takes a look at group of musicians in the Chicago neighborhood of Wicker Park. The scene is centered around a group called Tortoise. Moon says that this band and its many splinter bands, are ...

Experimental music veterans Tortoise are teasing their first new album since 2016’s The Catastrophist with the single “Oganesson,” which is out now. The gently chugging song includes Jeff Parker on ...