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SHOW REVIEW - Any time Tortoise is on tour, the show becomes the destination. With their acclaimed album Touch hitting the scene in late 2025, the instrumental ...

Tortoise tours six U.S. cities including Lexington then moves to extended overseas dates. Band labels vary, yet members call Tortoise an instrumental rock collective. Five multi-instrumental members ...

‘Say More’ takes calls on big Democratic wins on election night and immigration enforcement and talks to Dan Bitney and Doug McCombs of the Chicago band Tortoise. Democrats notch wins in New Jersey, ...

The experimental rock group Tortoise got their start in the early '90s. The musicians were all living together in an old warehouse loft in Chicago. (SOUNDBITE OF TORTOISE'S "LAYERED PRESENCE") RASCOE: ...

The experimental rock group Tortoise got their start in the early '90s. The musicians were all living together in an old warehouse loft in Chicago. (SOUNDBITE OF TORTOISE'S "LAYERED PRESENCE") RASCOE: ...

The experimental rock group Tortoise got their start in the early '90s. The musicians were all living together in an old warehouse loft in Chicago. (SOUNDBITE OF TORTOISE'S "LAYERED PRESENCE") RASCOE: ...

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 ...

The Butterfly Drinks The Tears Of The Tortoise? We find out why... and more Australian duo Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel, aka CS + Kreme, have just released their new albumThe Butterfly ...

A prolific musician, Parker is in town from Chicago with the post-rock band Tortoise for a show Oct. 19 at the Hotel St. Vincent. Cavassa saw it as a good opportunity to work on some new material ...

Tortoise's James Harding (left) and Alice Sandelson (right) speak to an audience of commercial partners at the audio-first newsroom's offices in London in March 2024. Some Observer journalists say ...

The afternoon train was late into the town of Lexington. Mary \u2014 stout, graying, and as taciturn as a desert tortoise \u2014 waited on the train platform, getting antsy.