Mailing List Archive/2026-03-16

👁 Hear Outside Brain, the brand new preview track from The World Is to Dig 👁 Shows! Indy Detroit Chicago Boston 👁 [edit]

In this email: exclusive free download of a brand new song, pre-order The World Is to Dig, direct links to show tickets.

Upcoming shows:

INDY DETROIT CHICAGO

PHILLY BROOKLYN BOSTON

Direct links to venues at www.TMBG.com

Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit shows are selling out. Woodstock shows are fully gone...

VIBES.

Greeting all y’all, John F. here. Things are heating up around the new album, with Wu Tang getting put into rotation on WFUV (a dream for me –– so exciting!). We just had band rehearsal yesterday and got most of our Lincoln set and our Factory Showroom set together along with a bunch of things from The World Is to Dig. So much fun to catch up with everyone’s hot takes on the world. John and I are headed out to Los Angeles to do press today and next week we start something closer to production rehearsals in earnest. The Bigger Show is coming together!

AND A NEW SONG: OUTSIDE BRAIN

Today we are happy to announce another preview track is available to YOU right now as a special bit of fan service for everyone on this mailing list. Download the song Outside Brain right now right here.

And for folks who must sing along, the lyrics:

this is an open letter

to explain myself to the finer folk

to uphold my kind to the higher minds

one refrain: outside brain

shook by the stares, I left too soon

lost the bet, can’t read the room

the edges of the curtains glare in the stagnant air

from a mineshaft to a crawlspace

across a bed of nails and broken glass

from a jump scare to a catwalk

on a tightrope over burning ash

against the grain: outside brain

I called up the trophy store

asked what things were going for

said I didn’t qualify

if I left my name they’d try

to write an open letter

to explain myself to the finer folks

to uphold my kind to the higher minds

what remains: outside brain

the panic of a blown-out fuse

I can’t take much more bad news

sitting in this busted chair

headstrong and unprepared

from a mineshaft to a crawlspace

across a bed of nails and broken glass

from a jump scare to a catwalk

on a tightrope over burning ash

against the grain: outside brain

THE WORLD IS TO DIG PRE-ORDERS!

Pre-order your own copy of the album now at www.TMBGshop.com on vinyl, cassette, or CD. (That’s right—cassettes and CDs.) There is even a cool t-shirt.

MISHEARD LYRICS

Speaking of misheard lyrics, right now TMBGareOK, the official Tumblr page of They Might Be Giants, is hosting the Misheard TMBG Lyric Challenge. Dig in and post yours or your own a cappella cover, vintage gig ephemera, or just ask a TMBG-related question and I promise to try to get to it sooner than later.

TIKTOK IS FOR ALL

Also, we are now on TikTok at TMBGofficial, posting on the semi-regular