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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello Portishead, welcome back, not that anyone missed you. Don't take that the wrong way. The English trip-hop pioneers are absolutely beloved, and as they embark on its first North American tour in ...

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 ...

Beth Gibbons has only given a handful of interviews in her lifetime. I think often of one that she did in 1995, on a French talk show following the release of Dummy. The footage that exists on YouTube ...

It’s a good time to be a Portishead fan even if the group as a whole has been in deep hibernation for nearly a decade. In May, singer Beth Gibbons released her wonderful solo debut Lives Outgrown, and ...

In the music industry’s accelerated calculus, 10 years can contain a lifetime’s worth of activity. Since Bristol, U.K., trip-hop trio Portishead released its eponymously titled studio album in 1997, ...

Blur have been revealed as the latest headliners for Benicassim 2015, joining the Prodigy, Portishead, and Florence + The Machine. A spokesperson confirmed the band’s appearance at the Spanish ...

INDIO, Calif. -- 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 ...