Portishead News

Steph and Lee from Gallows were in the studio. Steph chose Portishead's 'Dummy' to join our list of '1000 Albums Everyone Says You Should Listen To...' Mary Anne Hobbs bought in a track from Space for our Ladies Of Dub Club.

Trip-hop veterans Massive Attack are set to follow up their recent Splitting the Atom EP with the fifth full-length album of their near two-decade career, entitled Heligoland .

Friendly Fires and The xx November 23, 2009 The Independent Better Than: Anything involving Scissor Sisters; listening to Portishead's "Dummy" for the 37,392nd time Friendly Fires a Ten songs into a stupefyingly energetic show at the Independent last night, Ed Macfarlane, vocalist for British disco-rockers Friendly Fires , sang what became a solid ...

Massive Attack 's first album in seven years will be called Heligoland when it is released Feb.

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, ...

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.

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

A few years ago, the good folks at Rapster Records decided to share with the world some of the original tracks sampled by groovemasters Daft Punk.

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

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

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.

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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 ...

You would think Geoff Barrow wouldn't be able to add one more thing to his plate - with leading the elusive band Portishead and running Invada Records and all - but he has somehow managed to do it.

Remember Portishead? No? Well, that's understandable, since whole genres of music have come and gone in the 11 years since their last studio album .

Trip-hop's second renaissance may be in danger. While Massive Attack's Bristol contemporaries Portishead and Tricky brought the style roaring back to music's forefront with a pair of hum-dingers, Third and Knowle West Boy respectfully, it didn't seem too much to ask to bet on Massive Attack's return from dormancy to complete the trifecta.

Jake McMurchie has been an influential member of the south west jazz scene for more than a decade and performs at St James' Wine Vaults tonight.

Ian Parker announced this week that he will be releasing a new EP. The EP is called 'Demons and Doubters' and features five songs: Winding River, Grow, Lovers and Friends, Lost, and KeepMe Walking.

Midweek Music News Roundup 9.30.09: Scary Monsters Posted by Lucas Wesley on 09.30.2009 New music from Paul Westerberg and Portishead, Dan Deacon learns about public relations, the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees are in, Warner Brothers allow their legal department to relax, Thom Yorke thinks about getting super, and a long history of the ...

Portishead , the influential experimental band from Bristol, England, have already begun work on the followup to their highly successful 2008 album Third .