Portishead fans are convinced something is brewing again. Here’s why the trip-hop legends are suddenly everywhere in 2026. If you're suddenly seeing the name Portishead all over your feed again, ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. On April 29, Portishead will release ...

Hate to get all nostalgic here, but we’ve got to hop on Pop’s time machine and take a whiz back to them kindly ’90s, when Portishead first arrived like some new disease, dark and sly and killer.

Portishead remain one of the most quietly influential bands in modern music, with a rare catalog that still shapes how rock and pop sound today. Glanz im Detail: Die Bernstein-Potiknöpfe und der ...

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 ...

Geoff Barrow clearly notices the difference. Named after the Bristol satellite town he grew up in, Portishead emerged in the mid-nineties with Dummy, a startling debut that bucked the prevailing trend ...

So far, this year in music has been one of ups and downs. Several new bands have emerged and blown the minds of audiences everywhere. Some established bands have released fantastic new material that ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. To listen to Dummy is to listen to Gibbons giving herself over completely to her bandmates’ sound while ...

It took Portishead 11 years to record and release 2008’s Third, the follow-up to 1997’s Portishead, but in two recent interviews, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has said that the trio is already working on ...

Slim Gaillard (1911) – An American jazz musician known for his humor-infused songs like "Flat Foot Floogie," and his contributions to the swing and bebop movements. Nels Cline (1956) – Virtuoso ...

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 ...