With its '94 self-titled release, Chicago's wunderband Tortoise carved out a comfortable niche for the genre now known as post-rock. In the intervening years, other groups have borrowed from ...

Aprovocative observation: In its own way, the Chicago band Tortoise has proven as influential as Nirvana. No, the experimental instrumental rock band doesn't sell millions of albums. And the group may ...

Tortoise has been called post-rock heroes and the leaders of the new age of experimental underground music. Underground musical innovators of the rock world on the other hand, are celebrated by a ...