MVSW — Tortoise has a new album, Beacons of Ancestorship, coming out June 23! Here are a couple of the new songs I stumbled on today. One is compared to a rave/dance track, and the other sounds like Tortoise making a nu-metal jam: “High Class Slim Came Fl... more info

Stereogum — After almost 20 years and various collaborations, remixes, and bifurcations (and rhythms, resolutions and clusters), Chicago's preeminent instrumental jazz-and-dub-influenced post-Kraut (and post-rock) crew Tortoise still sound restless as ever. Look... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Ryuichi Sakamoto The Bang on a Can Marathon returns to World Financial Center for its fourth year to kick-off the 2009 River To River Festival on May 31st. The 12-hour marathon (noon-midnight) of mind-boggling, genre-bending music... more info

411 Mania — Thoughts on Animal Collective playing one of the worst gigs that I’ve ever seen, Okkervil River go to school, a new Sunset Rubdown album, Radiohead for festivals, a new Tortoise album and more. more info

Altsounds — The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitational pull of their predecessors, and the many masters and masterpieces that came before them. Rare indeed is the artist who outg... more info

All About Jazz — TORTOISE RELEASE BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP JUNE 23 ON THRILL JOCKEYFIRST FULL-LENGTH OF NEW MATERIAL IN FIVE YEARS Tortoise The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitationa... more info

JamBase — TORTOISE RELEASE BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP JUNE 23 ON THRILL JOCKEYFIRST FULL-LENGTH OF NEW MATERIAL IN FIVE YEARS Tortoise The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitationa... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Tortoise @ All Tomorrow's Parties (more by Zach Dilgard) Instrument-driven Chicago post-rockers Tortoise have announced a NYC show happening a little less than a month before the release of of their forthcoming LP, Beacons of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Tortoise @ All Tomorrow's Parties (more by Zach Dilgard) Instrument-driven Chicago post-rockers Tortoise have announced a NYC show happening a little less than a month before the release of of their forthcoming LP, Beacons of Ance... more info

JamBase — By: Dennis Cook Weird don't usually swing this bloody hard! From the suited Yellow Submarine-like beastie throwing the horns on the cover to the electric vibraphone crunch inside (not to mention further subconscious stoking imagery from Thom Self... more info