Jimmy Fallon to Feature Radiohead, Portishead Next Week
Coming off the heels of his Pink Floyd tribute week, unabashed music nerd Jimmy Fallon has managed to rope in in a couple more acclaimed British acts to perform on his Late Night show: Radiohead and Portishead. read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsPortishead Announces Tour
Bristol’s seductively experimental and downtempo rockers are stepping back into the spotlight.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPortishead, Jeff Mangum Headline All Tomorrow's Parties: I'll Be Your Mirror Festival
The folks behind British music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties have announced the headliners for their American sister event. ATP America Presents: I’ll Be Your Mirror, which will be held Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Asbury, N.J., will be headlined and co-curated by Portishead for two nights, performing their first East coast shows since 1998. Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel will play a Friday-night set of songs from his acclaimed band—the first large set of NMH songs he’s performed in over a decade. However, due to the capacity of the theater, only three-day ticket holders will have access to Mangum’s Friday-night... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPortishead's Geoff Barrow Announces New Album Details Via Twitter
After taking a 11-year hiatus between their second and third records, the members of Portishead have made it known that they will be around a for while to come. Not long after the 2008 release of the masterful Third, the band said they were already working on their fourth album. News about this upcoming album had been relatively quiet up until this week, when Portishead producer/instrumentalist Geoff Barrow updated the world via his Twitter account.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPortishead Picks Grinderman, Beach House, Swans for I'll Be Your Mirror Fest
There is another Velvets-themed festival in town. The new two-day London-based I’ll Be Your Mirror’s lineup already includes Company Flow, Grinderman, Beach House and The Books, as curated by Portishead.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPortishead and Goldfrapp Members Score Joan of Arc Movie
How do you update a classic silent film from the 1920s? By breaking the silence with a new score. That’s what Adrian Utley of Portishead and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory are doing with The Passion of Joan of Arc, Prefix reports.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe Super-Impossible Brain-Busting Trip-Hop Quiz
In 2008, Portishead—one of pop music’s great sleeping giants—awoke from hibernation to deliver its first studio album in 11 years. Then late last year, snarling rapper Tricky reissued his 1995 classic Maxinquaye. February’s release of Heligoland, Massive Attack’s first new album in seven years, completes the unlikely resurgence of trip-hop—a genre that blew up in the early ’90s and almost instantly vanished, only to inch its way back into the public consciousness nearly 20 years later. Centered in the British harbor town of Bristol and revolving around these three artists, trip-hop was known for cinematic soundscapes, paranoid moods, scratchy rapping... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesPortishead Releases Benefit Single for Amnesty International
[Photo by Mark C. Austin] Portishead’s music is kind of like a glacier. It’s beautiful and awe-inspiring, and it moves for nobody—11 years passed between the band’s second (1997’s Portishead) and third (last year’s haunting and appropriately-named Third) records.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPortishead asks fans for music distribution advice
In one simple word, the world of music distribution changed 10 years ago: Napster. Although the free download service only lasted two years (the Napster that currently exists is a pay service, Roxio, that bought the name and logo), it forever altered the way we buy and listen to music. Since then, numerous bands have, perhaps at times against the wishes of their record companies, stepped forward and offered unique ways to distribute music. Radiohead, of course, comes to mind. The Raveonettes released a bunch of digital-only EPs last year. Irish pop-rock trio Ash announced it would no longer produce... read more
Found in: Music, News2008 Mercury Prize nominees announced
[Above: Perennial nominee Alex Turner (here representing the 2006-winning, 2007-nominated Arctic Monkeys) accepts a Mercury. His project The Last Shadow Puppets is up for nomination this year.]For many award events, the fervency of surrounding discussion seems as influential as the actual bestowing of accolades. The Mercury Prize, given to the best album by a British or Irish artist made in the previous year, is no exception. ... read more
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