Douglas Andrew McCombs

Douglas Andrew McCombs is a bassist and guitarist from Chicago, known for playing in long-running alternative rock band Eleventh Dream Day and being a founding member of Tortoise, Brokeback, and other groups associated with the post-rock scene. His guitar playing is often fluid and expansive, though it can be dissonant and challenging on occasion. Along with his Tortoise bandmates, he helped pioneer an ever-evolving form of experimental, mainly instrumental rock that drew from dub, minimalism, ambient, Krautrock, and countless other forms of music. In contrast to the noisy, dr...