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 ...

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 ...

A short drive from Bristol city centre, and just beyond a brightly graffitied rail tunnel, St Werburghs city farm feels like a scrappy little corner of liberal utopia. When I visit, it is laid out in ...

MANCHESTER, England -- As Portishead takes the carefully backlighted stage at the ancient, tatty Manchester Apollo, heavy shadows fall across the band’s members. The concert spotlight has never come ...

As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran a 100-yard ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The title of the third album from the British electronic-pop group Portishead is—wait for it—"Third." Disappointing, ...

Portishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. They are often considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music. The band are named after the nearby town of the same name and consists of ...

In a tribute to Jo Cox, the Bristol trip hop band have released a video for their downbeat cover of Abba’s pop classic Jo Cox, the Batley and Spen MP who was tragically killed last week, would have ...

In the early ’90s, the British fishing town of Portishead produced a namesake band that made beautifully disturbing music: anguished vocals over chilled hip-hop break beats, accented by Spaghetti ...

The handwritten signs on the doors offer reminders of upcoming exam dates. The lavatories are broken and pungent. The paintings on the walls are colourful splurges expressing teenage angst in a ...

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