When seeing the band Tortoise live, one needs to keep one's eyes wide open and glued to the stage as the five members will change instruments in a ...

Post-rock vets Tortoise released The Catastrophist, their first album in seven years, this past January on Thrill Jockey, and they recently recorded a live-in-studio version of “Shake Hands With ...

Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their ...

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I n the 1990s, Chicago band Tortoise sat near the center of one of the more interesting music scenes in the United States.

Fresh off their first album in nine years, the longtime rock innovators perform with the Chicago Philharmonic.

Slow and steady wins the race. So it goes in the wide world of indie post-rock. In a music scene action-packed with balls-to-the-wall bands such as The Mars Volta and Battles, Tortoise sets itself ...

The quintet were closely associated with the Chicago post-rock scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and when that scene ...

Now in its 33rd year, the festival just announced the first phase of its lineup with acts that run the gamut from legendary ...