They Might Be Giants' breakout album Flood turned 30 last month, and to celebrate the anniversary, they're currently playing the LP in its entirety every night on tour -- with a few tweaks here and there. Last night in New Haven, for example, they performed the track "Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love" entirely backwards, sounding…

First emerging in the early ’80s, They Might Be Giants were compelling, confounding, and arguably without precedent. They remain, 30 years after the fact, relics of a period in which underground rock’s largely regional character incubated success stories from gifted weirdos across the country. Just as sunbaked desert days hel...

Veteran nerd-rock heroes They Might Be Giants return next month with a new album, their 16h, called Nanobots. The duo recorded the LP at the studio of their longtime friend Patrick Dillett, a producer who’s worked with David Byrne and Mary J. Blige. The album track “You’re On Fire” is a catchy and surprisi...

They Might Be Giants have set a March 5, 2013 release date for their new album, Nanobots

Fans of dorkily comedic things, take note: Nerd-rock veterans They Might Be Giants were on Conan last night, and it’s hard to imagine a more generally simpatico host. On the show, they played the recent track “When Will You Die.” And as a web exclusive, they also pulled out a noisy version of the 1988 [...]