Portishead are no longer signed to Island Records and are thinking what they could and should do next. In a post on their MySpace blog Geoff Barrow ha...
... one out every now and again at an acoustic show: 'Best of Both Worlds.' Not the whole thing, though, just a chorus." Lewis will return to the road...
In one simple word, the world of music distribution changed 10 years ago: Napster. Although the free download service only lasted two years (the Napst...
Portishead is currently without record label contract, and are asking fans on their MySpace page to suggest innovative ways to release their next (and...
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and Portishead singer Beth Gibbons both pay the rent singing dark, devastated songs that tend to suck all the air out ...
The Portishead comeback was one of the most satisfying surprises of 2008. Now, according to the band, they are set to produce a quickie follow-up to T...
October 19 in the UK on Barrow's own Invada, and Ipecac will release it the next day in the U.S. So how did Barrow make an album so quickly after spen...
[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 betw...
for the tip. When we talked to Portishead producer Geoff Barrow recently, he talked about how Can records had helped his decision to make music again ...
No one is expecting a quickie follow-up to Portishead'sThirdafter the 11-year gap that preceded that record, but Geoff Barrow has been talking about a...
MP3:> Beak>: "Wulfstan" Beak>, the Krautrock-indebted side project of Portishead's Geoff Barrow, have followed up last year's self-titled debut with a...
Portishead has never exactly been a touring machine, and we could say the same for Beak>, the krautrock-inspired band led by Portishead production emi...
album by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie Smith of the xx, is available for download today at BoomKat.com. The album, which features Smith remixing 13 songs ...
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,...
playing Alexandra Palace. The line-up for the two days is as follows: Saturday July 23: Portishead DOOM Company The Books Factory Floor Beak> more to ...
the Shapes, Teengirl Fantasy, Orthrelm, the Entrance Band, Tickley Feather, Drawlings, Kria Brekkan, Terry Riley, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, an...
three-day passes to the festival will be able to attend. A press release notes that Mangum will also perform the Monday after the festival, October 3,...
This summer, Portishead will curate and headline All Tomorrow's Parties' two-night I'll Be Your Mirror festival at London's Alexandra Palace, accordin...
Photo by Natalie Kardos Across the Universe/Frida director Julie Taymor's movie version of the Shakespeare play The Tempest hits theaters December 10,...
We already knowwhat not to expectfrom the fourthPortisheadstudio album, after Geoff Barrow tweeted a list of things the band is not prepared to do upo...
Anyone anticipating a gap similar to the one that stretched out between Portishead's second and third albums can at least expect some live action from...
. As for the July 24 show, the lineup features Grinderman, Beach House, Liars, and Swans. More supporting acts are expected to be announced soon. You ...
Whoa, who saw this one coming? The folks at All Tomorrow's Parties andPortisheadhave joined forces to create I'll Be Your Mirror, a three-day festival...
be NO twitter There will be NO press/blogger gig There will be NO acoustic session There will be NO meet and greet There will be NO edited version. Th...
ThosePortisheadshows in London later this year, as part of ATP'sI'll Be Your Mirror series, contain a mouthwatering lineup--especially as PJ Harvey ju...
Carl Theodor Dreyer'sThe Passion of Joan of Arc(1928) is a landmark of silent film that will be familiar to past and present film students across the ...
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...
Julie Taymor'sThe Tempest,a gnarly retelling of one of Shakespeare's lesser known works, hits theaters this week, but the soundtrack came out this wee...
Photo by Bill Ebbesen "Why the fuk would anyone want to buy a photo book a diplo traveling the world.. Hope mayans were right..let's end it now." -- P...
Rap has always had a tremendous impact on the production of Portishead sound-mastermind Geoff Barrow, but it's been a long time since he's tried makin...
Photo by Bill Ebbesen DROKK: Justice One (via SoundCloud) Stream Portishead's Geoff Barrow, man of many side ventures, recently told FACT that he's go...
a pair of Grammys and earned the group a spot on the soundtrack for The Hunger Games this year. And this coming Saturday, The Civil Wars are set to re...
Tweet Between releasing a hip-hop record, working on new Beak> material and getting people excited for new music from his original group, Portishead's...
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury: "Lawmaster/Pursuit" (Buy on Bandcamp) Portishead's Geoff Barrow recently teamed up with soundtrack composer Ben Salisb...
Tweet Geoff Barrow helmed Beak>'s 2009 self titled debut was a brilliantly bleak fusion of krautrockian minimalism heavy metal jams and distinctly got...
Tweet Geoff Barrow helmed Beak>'s 2009 self titled debut was a brilliantly bleak fusion of krautrockian minimalism heavy metal jams and distinctly got...
Beak>: "Yatton" Geoff Barrow's been a busy man this year. He's already released an album with Quakers, his indie rap project, and a Judge Dredd-inspir...
The upcoming DOOM/Jneiro Jarel collaboration-- under the name JJ DOOM-- will apparently feature Damon Albarn and Portishead's Beth Gibbons on a track....
-- Portishead have curated two concerts in Barcelona from June 22-23 at Poble Espanyol and Razzmatazz. In addition to two headlining Portishead perfor...
Tweet Though Geoff Barrow is familiar to most people as the mastermind of visionary trip-hop outfit Portishead, he has crafted a varied career for him...
Ride: "Moonlight Medicine" (Portishead remix) Following 2011's 20th anniversary reissue of Nowhere, Ride will re-release Going Blank Again in a deluxe...
Pitchfork.tv on YouTube headed to a Brooklyn cemetery to meet local rap crew Flatbush Zombies, who recently featured on the A$AP Mob cut "Bath Salt" f...
problem and all the tabloids got involved and she would start being Minnie Ripperton or whatever it was. It seemed fake, but because there was a massi...
Glastonbury has announced their 2013 lineup and it was worth the two-year wait, as The Rolling Stones will be about the biggest band to play a music f...
England's Glastonbury Festival has announced its initial 2013 lineup. The iconic festival, which took 2012 off, takes place this year from June 28-30....
