INDIO, Calif. (AP) -- 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 ...

Before this album, Portishead's 18-year career had managed to yield just two studio albums and a total of 22 songs. Only Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, a man who's spent the last 15 years perfecting ...

Want the scare of your life? Subject yourself to the new Portishead album. It’s a holy terror of a thing, scarred by horror-movie vocals, creepy-crawly soundscapes ...

There are certain groups of musicians that never get enough attention or exposure; groups that never have the opportunity to get to the true listeners because of popularity or genre affiliation. These ...

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, ...

Portishead, one of the better bands to come out of the mid-’90s trip-hop movement, seems to have transformed background music into a legitimate art form. If all elevator music sounded like Portishead, ...

Magnificent return, reinvention from the Bristol three + indepth Q&A w/Geoff Barrow You can see Barrow’s point: It’s hard to think of any recent musical style that’s suffered such a sharp plunge in ...

Portishead's third album is initially more a record to admire than to love, its muscular synthesisers, drum breaks and abrupt endings keeping the tension high. But after several listens, Third's ...

Before I start, a couple of caveats. First, I must admit that I haven’t played either of the first two Portishead albums for a shamefully long time, so I’m going to be struggling a little to put ...