Premiere screenings of an album-length concert film by Charlie Weinmann, capturing the August 2025 Lodge Room performance that became guitarist/band leader Jeff Parker's new ETA IVtet album, Happy Today, will take place in select cities in late April and early May, before the album's release on May 15. The film will be released worldwide on May 29.

Guitarist / bandleader Jeff Parker announces Happy Today, the third album from his long-running ETA IVtet, due May 15 via International Anthem / Nonesuch Records. Recorded and mixed at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, Happy Today is the sound of Parker and the rest of the IVtet—drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson—engaged in their signature, minimalist, form-bending improvisational syntax across two sprawling, LP side-length pieces. A lead track “Like Swimwear (Part One)” is out now.

Touch, Tortoise's first new album since 2016, is now on all streaming platforms, following its recent vinyl and CD release. The band has also shared an animated video, by Selina Trepp, for the album track "Rated OG." Tortoise will perform with the Chicago Philharmonic at The Auditorium in Chicago tonight and has a three-night stand at NYC's Bowery Ballroom this weekend.

Tortoise's Jeff Parker and John McEntire were on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday to talk with host Ayesha Rascoe about the band's new album, Touch, and their upcoming concert with Chicago Philharmonic at The Auditorium on November 11. You can hear their conversation here.

Touch, Tortoise's first new album since 2016, is out now on LP, CD, and digital download, with streaming to follow November 11. The groundbreaking group harnesses its collectivist songwriting approach to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps its most diverse release to date. Re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti Western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's signature internal logic. The band shared a video for the new track "A Title Comes," which you can watch here, and will perform with the Chicago Philharmonic at The Auditorium in Chicago and lead a three-night weekend stand at NYC's Bowery Ballroom in November.

Tortoise's Dan Bitney and Douglas McCombs are on the latest episode of Kreative Kontrol to discuss the band's new album, Touch, out next week, which host Vish Khanna calls "one of the strongest ones they've released to date." You can hear their conversation here. Tortoise performs at The Broad in LA on Saturday. That same day, Touch, can be heard a week early at listening events at 150+ independent record stores around the world.

Tortoise has shared "Works and Days," a new track from their upcoming album, Touch, out on LP, CD, and digital download October 24, and streaming November 11. You can watch the video here. The band also announced a special event on Saturday, October 18, when 150+ independent record stores around the world will host advance listening parties. The band will perform in LA, Austin, Marfa, NYC, and Chicago, where they will be joined by the Chicago Philharmonic.

Touch, Tortoise's first new album since 2016, is due on LP, CD, and digital download October 24, and streaming November 11. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for the post-everything icons' unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti Western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's signature internal logic. Watch a video for the lead single, "Layered Presence," here. The band will perform a series of special shows this fall in LA, Austin, Marfa, Chicago, and NYC for three nights at Bowery Ballroom.

Collaborators and friends from Tortoise's lengthy and illustrious career give their unique takes on the band's 2025 single “Oganesson"—the first new Tortoise offering since 2016, foreshadowing a larger body of work to come—on Oganesson (Remixes), now available on vinyl, following an earlier digital release: poet and activist Saul Williams, renowned mastering engineer Heba Kadry, The Black Keys' Patrick Carney, indie heavyweights Broken Social Scene, and percussionist, producer, and composer Makaya McCraven. You can watch a visualizer for the Broken Social Scene remix by the group's Kevin Drew here.

Tortoise announces a series of special concerts in October and November. The run begins with a performance at The Broad in Los Angeles on October 18, followed by two shows in Texas, a return to its hometown of Chicago for a special performance with the Chicago Philharmonic, a show at University of Kentucky, and a rare two-night stand at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. 

Guitarist Jeff Parker and ETA IVtet—saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Jay Bellerose—stopped by NPR to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. "Music can transport you, even or especially when the destination's unknown," writes NPR's Lars Gotrich. "For 22 minutes, this is what Jeff Parker's Tiny Desk with the ETA IVtet can offer: a space for your mind to meditate on what the music speaks, set to a gossamer groove." You can watch it here.

The band Tortoise has shared its first new music since 2016 today: the digital single “Oganesson,” in anticipation of a larger body of work to be released soon via International Anthem & Nonesuch Records (details TBA). The track was released just as the band performs both new music and classics from their thirty-year catalog at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.