On August 22, 1994, the album that would make Portishead a name in music was released to the world. “Dummy,” a moody, brooding mix of songs using hip-hop techniques like sampling, announced the ...

Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow formed the seminal trip-hop band Portishead in 1991, merging torch-song tenderness with James Bond-theme grandeur and hip-hop production. After two wildly influential CDs ...

MANCHESTER, England -- As Portishead takes the carefully backlighted stage at the ancient, tatty Manchester Apollo, heavy shadows fall across the band’s members. The concert spotlight has never come ...

Hello Portishead, welcome back, not that anyone missed you. Don't take that the wrong way. The English trip-hop pioneers are absolutely beloved, and as they embark on its first North American tour in ...

INDIO, Calif. -- As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage ...

It’s a good time to be a Portishead fan even if the group as a whole has been in deep hibernation for nearly a decade. In May, singer Beth Gibbons released her wonderful solo debut Lives Outgrown, and ...

Beak> is a highly experimental Bristol, U.K., band spearheaded by Portishead's Geoff Barrow in partnership with Billy Fuller and Matt Williams. Last year, the trio released its sophomore LP, '>>,' ...

The title of the third album from the British electronic-pop group Portishead is—wait for it—"Third." Disappointing, isn't it? But what makes it worse is that the band has had more than a decade to ...

Blur have been revealed as the latest headliners for Benicassim 2015, joining the Prodigy, Portishead, and Florence + The Machine. A spokesperson confirmed the band’s appearance at the Spanish ...

The handwritten signs on the doors offer reminders of upcoming exam dates. The lavatories are broken and pungent. The paintings on the walls are colourful splurges expressing teenage angst in a ...