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Recent News


August 24, 2008
A new episode of Theynow is available. Listen now or update your feed reader.
August 23, 2008
John Flansburgh shared his thoughts with the New York Times yesterday, on the kind of children's music he would raise his kids on, if he had kids. Check out his recommendations.
August 20, 2008
In an interview with Terry Bartley today, Flansburgh reveals that the band is working on their next children's album, Here Comes Science. In addition, he says "We'll be doing some rock project in very short order after that, we might do an EP or something". Also available is an audio clip of the interview (begins at six minutes into the audio).
August 15, 2008
Over the past week, IGN Movies has been posting "making of" featurettes about Coraline. The fourth, while discussing John Hodgman's role in the film, includes a song "improvised" by one of his characters; whether or not Hodgman will record his own version at a later date, the featurette version (beginning at 1:22) is sung by Linnell.
August 14, 2008
Billboard and CMJ have confirmed They Might Be Giants will be participating in the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon, October 21st-25th in New York City. (Actual showtime/date to be announced.)
August 14, 2008
Throughout today, Cleveland radio station 88.3 FM WBWC is broadcasting an 18-hour, all-They Might Be Giants marathon, ending at 1:00 am EST. Click here to listen to a live Internet broadcast (RealPlayer required). TMBW would like to personally thank Joe Kenderes for his hard work during the marathon and for hearing out all our insane requests. The entire event was spectacular.

We'll meet at the end of the tour. (News archives... / Add/edit current news)

Getting Started


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