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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. By March 1998, Tortoise had sold 35...
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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)
    many line-ups, playing and recording with Will Oldham, The For Carnation, Tortoise, Stereolab, Royal Trux, King Kong, Bush League, Zwan, Peggy Honeywell,...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • In the Fishtank 5 is a 1999 EP by Tortoise with The Ex as part of the In the Fishtank project. Heather Phares of Allmusic gave the album a mixed review...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Wilco (redirect from Wilco (US band))
    Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo after...
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    flat-backed spider tortoise (Pyxis planicauda), more commonly known as the flat-tailed tortoise, and Madagascan flat-tailed tortoise, is a tortoise that belongs...
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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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