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    Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990. The band incorporates krautrock, dub, minimal music, electronica and jazz into...
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  • album by American post-rock band Tortoise, released in 1998 by Thrill Jockey. After Jeff Parker joined the band in 1996, Tortoise recorded TNT over the course...
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  • Tortoise is the debut studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released in 1994 via Thrill Jockey. It received positive reviews from critics...
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  • Beacons of Ancestorship (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2009. "Beacons Of Ancestorship by Tortoise". Metacritic. CBS Interactive...
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  • lyre meaning "Tortoise" or "Turtle" Tortoise (band), a US post-rock band formed in 1990 Tortoise (album), their debut 1994 release Tortoise Media, a British...
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    David Pajo (category Tortoise (band) members)
    post-rock band Slint. Since the breakup of Slint, Pajo has contributed to many line-ups, playing and recording with Will Oldham, The For Carnation, Tortoise, Stereolab...
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    "The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted...
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  • A Grape Dope (category Tortoise (band) members)
    hip hop under the name A Grape Dope. John Herndon is a member of the bands Tortoise and Isotope 217, playing mainly drums but some other percussion (vibraphone...
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    Jeff Parker (musician) (category Tortoise (band) members)
    multi-instrumentalist, Parker has been a member of the post-rock group Tortoise since 1996, and was a founding member of Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground...
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  • Millions Now Living Will Never Die (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    Living Will Never Die is the second studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. The album was released on January 30, 1996, by Thrill Jockey. The album's...
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  • Standards is the fourth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2001. The album was produced using less...
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    John McEntire (category Tortoise (band) members)
    member of both Tortoise and the Sea and Cake. McEntire started playing drums at age 10. Throughout high school, he performed in marching bands and studied...
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  • The Catastrophist (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    The Catastrophist is the seventh studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2016. It features vocal contributions...
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  • It's All Around You (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    It's All Around You is the fifth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2004. At Metacritic, which assigns...
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    The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger) is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis (which also contains...
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    The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae. The species is native to the southeastern United States...
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  • Bundy K. Brown (category Tortoise (band) members)
    and recording engineer. He is best known for being a founding member of Tortoise and for his production, engineering and remixes in the Chicago post rock...
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    Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni) is a species of tortoise native to Europe. The specific epithet, hermanni, honors French naturalist Johann Hermann...
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    the instrumental rock band Tortoise and leads the instrumental band Brokeback. He is also the longtime bassist for the rock band Eleventh Dream Day. In...
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    The Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca), also known commonly as the spur-thighed tortoise or Moorish tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae...
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    stood, replied, "On a tortoise." But on what does the tortoise stand? "On another tortoise." With Mr. Barker, too, there are tortoises all the way down. (Vehement...
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    Carried to Dust, featuring Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, Douglas McCombs of Tortoise and Pieta Brown. It was released in the US via Touch & Go Records on September...
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  • The Brave and the Bold (album) (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    The Brave and the Bold is a 2006 collaborative studio album by Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It was released on Overcoat Recordings. It consists...
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    Bell's hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys belliana), also known commonly as Bell's eastern hinged tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the family Testudinidae...
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  • A Lazarus Taxon (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    machine. Tortoise bassist Bundy K Brown himself restored the tape, twelve years after it was recorded. The DVD contains most of the band's music videos...
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  • by Tortoise with The Ex as part of the In the Fishtank project. Heather Phares of AllMusic writes, the "six-song EP [...] sometimes blends the bands' divergent...
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  • Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters (category Tortoise (band) albums)
    Chicago-based band Tortoise. It consists entirely of remixed (and retitled) versions of songs from their first album. Some of the remixes were performed by band members...
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  • performed at Field Day in London. According to Setlist.fm, "Giant Tortoise" is one of the band's most played songs live. The rest of the songs are fairly uncommon;...
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    live performances by second guitarist David Pajo (formerly of Slint and Tortoise), who joined as a touring member in 2009 and replaced Imaad Wasif, who...
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  • (artist)), Dump (band) (a side band by James McNew of Yo La Tengo), and Brokeback (band) (a project of Douglas McCombs, bassist of Tortoise (band)). Archer Prewitt...
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