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The 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

Tricky announces first U.S. tour in five years

What's on your resume? You can type 80 words per minute? You can tap dance? Well, Adrian Thaws (AKA: Tricky) has made an album NME deemed the best of an entire year and played in a band that made Rob Gordon's top five singles of all-time list in High Fidelity. So yeah, he's not really sweating it either....  read more