| They Might Be Giants Release "The Else" at Joe's Pub |
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They Might Be Giants: "The Else" Album Release May 16, 9:30 pm & 11:30 pmTickets: $30.00 (currently sold out) Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street below Astor joespub.com tmbg.com  They Might Be Giants have cut a crazy and singular swath through popular culture during their 20-year career, continuously producing vital and scarily intelligent rock music that's also catchy and enjoyable art. They have been recognized variously as art-rock pioneers, college rock kings, MTV groundbreakers, prolific musical stuntmen, commercially successful pop icons, and in recent years, as true legends. The band formed in Brooklyn, NY in 1982 and launched their Dial-A-Song service in 1984 (still going strong at 718-387-6962 and on-line at dialasong.com). The band worked locally in the emerging East Village performance scene of the mid-'80s performing as a duo with a drum machine accompaniment. TMBG released their first album on the independent Hoboken label Bar/None in late 1986. Collaborating with young video director Adam Bernstein the band created a series of low-budget videos in '87-'89 that boldly broke away from the limitations of the early MTV video aesthetic. TMBG began to tour nationally and a succession of breakout songs on the burgeoning college radio and alternative formats began to establish them a following. The band scored a top ten hit in the UK in 1990 with the song "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and the album "Flood" became a platinum album in the US. The band expanded to a full rhythm section in 1992.  TMBG have sold over 3 million records in their career. They've also made over 30 appearances on various network television shows. And to top it all off, they won a Grammy in 2002 for "Boss of Me," the theme to Fox TV's Malcolm In The Middle. |
