Trip-Hop News

SONGS from the heart are on the menu when Lou Rhodes, plus support act John Smith, play the Glee Club in Hurst Street, Birmingham, on Tuesday November 24.

Lamb, the UK's finest trip-hop duo excited their fans when they signaled an end to their five year hiatus, announcing their reformation in early '09 for a series of summer festivals and one-off live shows.

What's a bigger feat? Garbage coming off as a trip-hop outfit, or scoring a No. 1 hit with no video to promote the song? A remixed version of Garbage's "#1 Crush" appeared on the soundtrack to William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet in 1996, and presented a view of the band more in line with Portishead's trip-hop than alt-pop. The world ate it up, ...

Everyone's favourite band with 'Mumford' in the title talk to us about novels and new folk.

Five acts battled it out for supremacy at the Circle Lounge of the Ipswich Regent on Saturday night.

EMERGING from the trip-hop scene that brought the world Tricky and Portishead, Lou Rhodes' searing vocals have been turning musical heads for almost a decade, writes Simon Parker.

Kiwi band Minuit's new video Aotearoa has hit a record 10,000 views, making it the most viewed New Zealand music clip on YouTube last week.

BEAK> - BEAK> Review Posted by Lucas Wesley on 11.10.2009 Geoff Barrow of Portishead uses his time off to form a band.

During high school, my friends and I misspent more than a few Saturday nights driving aimlessly around the suburbs searching for fast food and listening to chill-out mainstays like Funki Porcini, A Tribe Called Quest and Thievery Corporation.

HSL continues its touring relationship with legendary Bristol-based electronic/trip-hop collective Massive Attack, supplying all lighting equipment and crew to the current UK and European tour, working with lighting designer Robin Haddow.

Final Version of At Large. Heard in Total Anarchy and in Fionn's At Large album.

For much of the past year, Tricky has been in Paris exercising a little philanthropy.

Brandon Flores, 28, is the frontman and vocalist for the local hip-hop/punk band name:bran. Originally from Chicago, he lives in Ponte Vedra Beach with his wife and three kids.

Amanda Lirange vocalist/instrumentalist for the Deadites, 7 Minute Stagger, and the Mike & Amanda Lirange duo What Lirange listens to on the Project Playlist Web site: 1. ' Black No.

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This week Inbox flies away with Geoff Barrow, the creative glue behind Bristol-based experimental rock trio, Beak> . While he waits for the captain's cue to turn off all electronic devices, Barrow fills us in on things like unbearable Basement Jaxx shows, wedding bloopers, footie and teatime with the family, Beth Gibbons, and gossipy bathroom ...

This is Eskazed's first one net-label release. The album has been started to working at 2007.

To continue our electronic odyssey began in Part I here are some artists you might find at SPL to plug in to and up the amperage of your playlist.

There is only one Massive Attack. While countless acts have tried to emulate, draw upon and even copy, no-one has managed to combine minimalist electro, rock and dub the way they do.

Today's Spotlight cover on rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson refers to a street named after Jackson last week in Oklahoma City's Bricktown Entertainment District.