*Portishead's Geoff Barrow: “Dance music is full of assholes. Self-promoting assholes.” Back in the mid-'90s, the British trio Portishead emerged as bastions of the trip-hop movement. Trip-hop was a ...

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the SPIN staff’s favorite new songs. Below, sample the best from resurfaced Australian dance heads, Southern guitar-slingers, and more. The open-faced honesty of ...

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 ...

"This song (and all of Dummy, actually) was a huge inspiration to me in my formative years," says Lee in a Facebook posting. "I listened to the song recently for the first time in a long time, and ...

Since they broke through in 1994 with Dummy (No. 74 on SPIN’s list of 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005), pioneering trip-hop act Portishead has been notoriously reclusive, dropping just two more studio ...

Kendrick Lamar released the dazzling Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his first album in five years, today. He didn’t share much about it before dropping the whole thing and one of the surprises, deep ...

Portishead have released a brand new track – ‘Chase the Tear’ for Amnesty International. It’s now available as an exclusive download single from 7 digital with all earnings going towards Amnesty’s ...

A collaboration between Portishead and SoundCloud has shed light on a new royalty distribution system that proponents argue could help level the playing field for working musicians. Under SoundCloud’s ...

Across the Universe/Frida director Julie Taymor's movie version of the Shakespeare play The Tempest hits theaters December 10, and the movie's digital soundtrack album, from composer Elliot Goldenthal ...

England is still mourning the shocking, violent death of Labour Party politician Jo Cox, a Member Of Parliament who was fatally shot and stabbed on June 16 by a man who seems to be a mentally ...

Okay first of all there is a place called Portishead. With that out of the way, we're super into Portishead's potentially unintentional business model: release an absolute beast of an album a long ...