After a 10-year hiatus, Portishead is back. This is not a reunion bow, though, but rather an energized reboot of a band that 10 years ago found itself burnt out from a rock ’n’ roll life and ...

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*Portishead's Geoff Barrow: “Dance music is full of assholes. Self-promoting assholes.” Back in the mid-'90s, the British trio Portishead emerged as bastions of the trip-hop movement. Trip-hop was a ...

In the music industry’s accelerated calculus, 10 years can contain a lifetime’s worth of activity. Since Bristol, U.K., trip-hop trio Portishead released its eponymously titled studio album in 1997, ...

Trip-hop might have been a term invented by a journalist, but it ended up being a handy umbrella for a lot of artists to thrive under, plus it gave a city a musical identity and a lot of music ...

It's taken more than a decade, but Portishead have finally come out with a new album. Kevin Courtneygoes beyond the press release to discover what took these slow-groovers so long, and wonders if this ...

Bass plays a vital role in a trip-hop track. Much like trip-hop beats (which we've covered here), using bassline loops is a perfectly valid approach, and memorable trip-hop tracks such as Portishead’s ...

It’s not every band that, in middle age, comes up with music more alarming and strange than they managed in their youth. But for Portishead, no other option would do. “We were trying to break out of ...

Judging by the volume of Nerve.com personal-ad types who list them as preferred getting-it-on music (and please don’t ask how I know this), Portishead have soundtracked a whole lot of horny but ...

Portishead are reissuing their landmark debut LP, 1994’s Dummy, on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl to honor the trip-hop classic’s 20th anniversary. The trio announced the news on Monday via Twitter and ...

Seven observations on Portishead, who headlined the Saturday lineup of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Asbury Park: -- There have been a few nice-sized crowds here today -- Battles 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 ...