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They Might Be Giants - MAY 2026 BROOKLYN STEEL SHOW RECORDINGS - 2026/05/28-30

See title. Three awesome sets at Brooklyn Steel performing Apollo 18, Factory Showroom, and Lincoln. I've seen them over 35 times prior to this and I'm still witnessing songs played live I've never seen in person.

Sound quality is great for each show, though the stage bantery moments are very quiet indeed. Flans would have rather done anything other than speak his words directly into the mics on stage.

Cool cover art for each show by @capitalq

DOWNLOAD HERE (FLAC AND MP3)

5/28 Apollo 18 Set

5/29 Factory Showroom Set

5/30 Lincoln Set

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TMBG at Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY - April 17, 2026 (night one)

Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pOxFBIcKSUQ96Qmg3xhOWNTEWBWdE7M

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Got my first 3D printer for Christmas and have wasted no time

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A18 minus the A and 18

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The John Henry hypercard stack is back. Enjoy. (big big h/t to our hero Jon Uleis)

They Might Be Giants has just completed a new album, John Henry, which will be in the stores this August, but you don't have to wait until t

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A new daily game from TMBW is here: Wiki Detective! https://tmbw.net/game/

Each day you’ll see the wiki’s song themes for a specific studio TMBG song - one of over 500 culled from 40+ albums, EPs and collections. After a few incorrect guesses, you’ll be given hints in the form of other information about the song.

Good luck!

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Made a game for TMBW!

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Last week a very kind man in Brooklyn gifted me an accordion that hadn't been played for a while.

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I’ve put together an interactive heatmap of every city that TMBG has played from 1982 to now, using thousands of shows from TMBW’s database! Pick a city and a date to see its setlist on the wiki (when available). Give it a spin at https://tmbg.world

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Hey John, do you have any memory of this? It's a classified ad from a January 1982 issue of In These Times... a 14 song demo tape that predates TMBG. It's a real mystery, TMBW knows nothing of it. Can you tell us anything about it? Any idea what songs might be on it?

JF: I'm sure it was me. Not sure why exactly, but I suspect someone said it was free to advertise and, hey, $4 was two meals for me in 1982, so I just put something in the paper. Probably some iteration of a demo.

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Another discovery from the TMBW Discord! This one blew my mind

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tmbw.net awesome edition

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Love this TMBW fan art 😭

Maybe a good place to mention we recently started a TMBW Discord! Feel free to join, it's been a lot of fun: https://tmbw.net/discord

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The tour kicked off with a bang in Philly last night

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Glad I had my phone out in this moment

For maybe the first time on YouTube, this is the complete commentary track John & John recorded for the 2003 "Direct from Brooklyn" music video DVD!

Because of Warner/Elektra copyright policies, it took a few tricks to get this to upload in full, including reducing the background song audio on three videos and obscuring the image on another two. More details in the YouTube description.

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For the holidays, I received a "Make Your Own Vinyl Record" gift card for an Amsterdam-based company. Not knowing what to put on the record and with the expiration date of the gift card rapidly approaching, I went with TMBG!

With the limitation of ten minutes per side (being a 10" 33 1⁄3 RPM record), I compiled some of the earliest TMBG recordings with era-appropriate artwork, including the band's Futura logotype used back then. The "biographies" of John & John on the back are lifted from a 1983 promotional flyer seen in Gigantic.

Even though most of the record consists of decades-old MP3s ripped from even older cassettes, it manages to sound cohesive. Wish these songs would get a proper re-release!

(And yes, unfortunately I had to leave room for the mandatory Vinylify logo/disclaimer on the rear cover.)

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Our friend @capitalq has remastered and edited the "Am I Awake?" John & John recording session and interview from a Resident Life promotional DVD that I have owned for twenty years. I uploaded the raw video to YouTube in 2007, never having gotten around to trying to do something about the editing, or lack thereof. Now you can see it beautifully cut together and in high definition. Thanks, Jon!

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New old TMBG content: John & John hosting Nick Rocks in 1988! Featuring two in-studio performances.

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How would you describe the remastering process for the upcoming Long Tall Weekend vinyl coming out soon? Was it similar to the EQing done on the recent reissues of the first two albums, or did it need to be more involved?

The Long Tall Weekend tracks were not only from many different studio situations--some fancy, some pretty raw-- they also had never really been properly mastered, so even simple stuff like basic level matching wasn't really in place. I suspect folks who are tuned into those kinds of things will find it a big improvement.

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So hyped

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