“Whether singing one of her own lyrics… or one of the symphony’s… she is aiming at a direct emotional injection from performer to audience. In the voices of the symphony’s text, as in life, she is a ...

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 ...

It took Portishead 11 years to record and release 2008’s Third, the follow-up to 1997’s Portishead, but in two recent interviews, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has said that the trio is already working on ...

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 ...

There’s no rapping on Portishead’s 1994 debut album Dummy, and yet the LP stands tall alongside Mobb Deep’s The Infamous and GZA’s Liquid Swords on the list of moody, meditative ’90s rap masterpieces.

This morning, we were roused from sleep by the sound of a loud beeping. It wasn’t our alarm clock; this was more of a slow, mellow beeping with a laid-back hip-hop beat and Tricky rapping overtop.

Geoff Barrow has claimed that the third Portishead album is nearly completed. The band's last release was their self-titled LP in 1997. What to Read Next Writing on the group's website, Barrow said: ...

We‘re pleased to announce that we’ll be releasing our album, titled THIRD. on April 14th 2008. The album has 11 tracks and is 49 minutes 13 seconds long. I am also pleased by that, and that Portishead ...

Before this album, Portishead's 18-year career had managed to yield just two studio albums and a total of 22 songs. Only Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, a man who's spent the last 15 years perfecting ...

After nearly a decade of self-imposed silence, Bristol, England’s Portishead return with a new album, appropriately titled Third. Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley’s noir electronica, along with Beth ...

A collaboration with Krzysztof Penderecki, one of Poland's greatest composers. According to a statement, Gibbons neither speaks Polish nor reads music, “but in preparation for the performance, she ...