Chicago band Tortoise, after only a short break, is once again setting off on tour. However, unlike their Beacons of Ancestorship tour earlier this year, which featured almost exclusively U.S. dates, this time around Tortoise is packing for Europe. Kicking off at Barcelona's International Jazz Festival and ending in the U.K. with some guests at the All Tomorrow's Parties 10-year anniversary sho...
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Tortoise is playing a free show at Reckless Records on Sunday at 5pm. While this is hardly the venue and time to see a band like this play, nobody should be scoffing at a free show. Recession pricing, baby!Influential Chicago group Tortoise has announced that they will be playing an in-store performance this [...]Related posts:Sunday Free Show: Sharon Jones at SummerstageTortoise to Play Earl...
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Tortoise co-founder Dan Bitney discusses the past, present, and future of the band that changed indie rock forever, and continues to thrill their power base on their first original record in five years, Beacons of Ancestorship.
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You know the drill already…Plenty of great shows coming up and plenty of tickets to score!Friday, July 10th – Cracker @ The IndependentDavid Lowery and Cracker head to The Independent this Friday in support of the band’s first album in three years, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey. A recent recording by [...]
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Two UK tour dates have been confirmed for Tortoise, both spread sparsely apart and both in support of the bands newest record 'Beacons Of Ancestorship'. Their first dates comes August 25th at the London Garage and then four months later, the legendary collective will play at the Ten Years Of ATP Festival in Minehead on December 11th to 13th.
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Here we are, six records in and with Beacons of Ancestorship Tortoise have made, by their own esoteric standards, their most straight ahead ‘rock’ record to date. Are Tortoise still relevant? Oh yes. Matt Poacher writes.
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Beacons of Ancestorship dishes out the unexpected; like the kid in high school whose atrocious sense of fashion confounded others in light of his striking wit and intellect. If my brain were made of chips and magnets rather than nerve cells and soft tissue, I might like this album. Reminds us of: Mogwai | Aphex Twin | Boards of Canada Tortoise: (Official / MySpace)tortoise beacons of ancest...
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Tortoise's first album in five years denies us a cinematic arc, replacing it with a feeling of now that runs through the album, making each new sound on the album both utterly surprising and inevitable.
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Yeah....not just a clever post. I say Tortoise last night in Ann Arbor...I got some cool video clips, but I am novice enough not to be able to post them on youtube...I'll try. It was a great show...although the median height seemed to be 6'6".....Tall fans those Tortoise Heads. The opener really blew everybody I went with back. "David Daniell":http://www.myspace.com/davidwdaniell. and he wa...
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I made it down to seattle for the "Tortoise":http://www.trts.com/site.html show this past tuesday. Definitely worth the trek. I have listened Tortoise for a while now but never seen them live. The heavily percussive element of their music was brought to full force in a live setting. Especially notable for me were the dual drumsets. The drummers (Dan Bitney, John McEntire, & John Herndon) who ...
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Thrill Jockey is celebrating their 15 years in the music business with a box set release of Thrill Jockey artists covering Thrill Jockey songs. The set will be entirely made up of 7" singles and drops on December 4th. The songs will not be released on CD, and the box set will be pressed in a limited edition. Among the many covers is David Byrne covering the new Fiery Furnaces track "Ex-Guru an...
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My favorite Tortoise track and a staple for many mixed cd's. File under awesome experimental rock.For your Sunday evening pleasure...
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Tortoise's brand new record Beacons Of Ancestorship is set for release on June 22nd via Thrill Jockey and marks their first long-player in five years. This track, Prepare Your Coffin is taken from the upcoming record and the accompanying video compliments it's atmosphere rather well.
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I made it down to seattle for the "Tortoise":http://www.trts.com/site.html show this past tuesday. Definitely worth the trek. I have listened Tortoise for a while now but never seen them live. The heavily percussive element of their music was brought to full force in a live setting. Especially notable for me were the dual drumsets. The drummers (Dan Bitney, John McEntire, & John Herndon) who ...
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Tortoise has announced their early summer schedule! There have been a few updates to the list of cities that Tortoise will stop in, so be sure to look at brainwashed.com for the full schedule. It starts in Ohio, June 14th, the night before their performance at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tenessee on June 15th. They have added Portland and LA to their west coast coverage, as well as Ann Arbor t...
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