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Portishead’s return in 2008, “Third,” was uncompromising, dissonant and volatile, bristling against the ways trip-hop had been smoothed into background music during the group’s hiatus.

Not that Portishead’s trademark cold precision is missing from the new album. It’s clangorous with mayhem and melancholy, crash drums clashing with Gibbons’ vulnerable murmur, “Wounded and ...

In 2011, Portishead performed two nights in a row at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival when it was held in Asbury Park, N.J. For me, it was surreal to see such rapturously cool music where I'd ...

Portishead‘s Dummy will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release in 2014 – but the band’s founder and producer Geoff Barrow isn’t interested in marking the occasion, as recent ...

That perfectionism clearly played a role in Portishead's 11-year drought. "We have to operate this way to make it work," says Utley. "I don't even understand the criticism of perfectionism, really.

Portishead are commercially releasing their 2016 cover of ABBA ‘s “SOS” for the first time, exclusively through SoundCloud ‘s fan-powered royalties, the two groups tell Rolling Stone.

Portishead's latest album is Third. Portishead's unique production style coupled with Beth Gibbons' sultry jazz vocals influenced a generation of pop musicians, including Danger Mouse.

Trip hop died on April 29, 2008, in Portishead, North Somerset, England, after a long illness. The coroner listed the musical genre's cause of death as acute gloom as well as a severe deficiency ...

Portishead's Dummy was playing from the stereo in the living room. We totally made out. It was a little cold. And messy. Lots of things to balance—bottles, cigarettes, lighters.