Deconstruct the Tortoise sound, and the band’s atmospheric blurring of jazz and rock usually reduces to a deceptively simple common denominator. In a gorgeous and precisely executed 90 minutes on ...

LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. (CBS) --Thanks to an anonymous tip, a tortoise that was stolen from a Lincolnwood pet store has been returned safe and sound, if "a little freaked out." Spur, a 70-pound tortoise, ...

A pet tortoise that was stolen in Kaneohe last Thursday has been returned. According to the owner of Dean’s Drive Inn, surveillance video captured a man taking the tortoise, which is kept in a pen ...

Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker's membership in the avant-garde Association For The Advancement Of Creative Musicians (AACM) probably means nothing to most of the fans who packed into the band's second ...

Wichita’s newest radio star is a lettuce-loving tortoise with a crunchy sound. A recording of Malala, a Russian tortoise with a taste for traviso, was featured Monday on the British Broadcasting Corp.

Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their unusual instrumentation (three percussionists, two bassists) and eclectic ...

UPDATE: Cruz the tortoise has been found, safe and sound — and not far from his home in Tappen, B.C. On Saturday afternoon, the Bostock family told Global News that their 65-pound pet was located by ...

At the start of Tortoise in the early ’90s, the possibilities seemed infinite. The Chicago band began as outlet for local musicians moonlighting from their jobs in more conventional rock groups. Now a ...

Tortoise is the little side project that conquered a corner of the indie-rock world. Once the band was an outlet for the music that didn’t quite fit anywhere else for bassist Doug McCombs of Eleventh ...