They Might Be Giants' three-piece horn section, the Tricerachops Horns, features saxophonist Stan Harrison, trombone and euphonium player Dan Levine, and trumpeter Mark Pender.
The Bigger Show brings the band to Milwaukee.
The band's 2024 live album Beast of Horns features the horn section.
Rotating Album Sets Built Around Fan-Requested Deep Cuts
Each night of The Bigger Show features a rotating spotlight set built around one of six albums: Lincoln, Flood, Apollo 18, John Henry, Factory Showroom, or Mink Car. Per OnMilwaukee's interview, each spotlight set runs 10 to 12 songs from the featured album, and pulling them together requires substantial rehearsal.
Flood remains the band's best-selling and most recognizable album, per Wikipedia.
A Stage Collapse the Band Still Brings Up in Milwaukee
During a 1992 show at Milwaukee's Modjeska Theater, Flansburgh invited people to polka. A large crowd gathered on a temporary platform built over the orchestra pit; it collapsed, and a few dozen people were pushed backward.
Most people suffered only minor scrapes.
The Band's Milwaukee Stop
The Milwaukee dates bring the band to the Pabst Theater.
The Milwaukee dates arrive as the band leans on a wave of newer material alongside its catalog staples. They released their 24th studio album, The World Is to Dig, on April 14, featuring 18 tracks including lead singles Wu-Tang and Sleep's Older Sister, according to Discogs — the band's first full-length studio release since 2021's BOOK. That followed a January EP called Eyeball, four tracks of studio outtakes that John Linnell described as an amuse-bouche appetizer ahead of the tour, as reported by BrooklynVegan; the EP's title track was first previewed through the band's resurrected Dial-A-Song phone service, the same low-tech, direct-to-fan format the duo pioneered out of an answering machine in Flansburgh's Brooklyn apartment back in 1983.
The band's horn section adds a distinctive color to its live performances.
