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What is music but people and machines making sound? Last night Chicago art-rock band Tortoise played the Beaumont in support of its new album, Beacons of Ancestorship , out now on Thrill Jockey.

Tortoise is playing a free show at Reckless Records on Sunday at 5pm . While this is hardly the venue and time to see a band like this play, nobody should be scoffing at a free show.

Though this week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis isn't quite as jam-packed as last week's, there are still a number of notable performances happening over the next few days that are worthy of your attention.

Tortoise, with Prefuse 73. Wednesday, September 30, at the Beaumont Club. Influential instro-rocker Tortoise dons a moniker fittingly relative to the rabbit-speed attention span of indie rock.

Tortoise: ...wins the race, after all. Details: Tortoise 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 29.

The Chicago-based instrumental "post-rock" band Tortoise , whose members are also involved in their hometown's sprawling improvised music scene, is coming to St.

Chat at 11 a.m. with Devra First on restaurants. Chat at noon with Tony Massarotti on sports.

Chat at 11 a.m. with Devra First on restaurants. Chat at noon with Tony Massarotti on sports.

When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood ...

When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood ...

When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood ...

Beacons of Ancestorship *5.6* Goes well with: Explosions in the Sky, Squarepusher, Slint Avant-jazz playing techno dress-up is nothing new.

Chicago post-rock-jazz-ambient-electronic-whatever band Tortoise rock out a whole lot more than usual on "Prepare You Coffin," from the new Beacons Of Ancestorship .

Tortoise The band that ruined hardcore is back w/ a new album! Remember when Tortoise was one of everyones favorite bands.

Spare showers blanketed Union Park and early-arriving fans before the kickoff of the latest installment of the Pitchfork Music Festival, premiering its latest gimmick: the ticket holder - "curated Write the Night series - an alternative to the already rote phenomenon of reproducing a seminal album from front to back.

Do you really want to be a part of something like that? Yeah, so maybe I procrastinated a bit on getting my shit together in time to make it to Chicago this weekend.

Music fans may gripe about snooty online behemoth Pitchfork , but one merit of the site remains constant: Its yearly three-day festival is perhaps the most economical and exciting outdoor destination festival of its kind.

Chicago band Tortoise is a band of instrumentalists that have garnered a sturdy cult following over the years.

The genre-defying instrumental band Tortoise arrives in Austin on the 15th in support of their seventh proper full-length LP, the aptly-titled Beacons of Ancestorship .