The old proverb ‘mighty oaks from little acorns grow’ was never truer than when Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow met on an Enterprise Allowance Scheme in Bristol in 1991. Tapes were exchanged on their ...

Portishead’s “Dummy” was released in 1884. Photo courtesy of @portisheadofficial/Instagram Welcome to Ear 2 Da Sky! Each week, I will be going over topics within music culture and reviewing albums and ...

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 ...

Portishead will release a new edition of their debut album Dummy. The classic 1994 album will be reissued to mark its 20th anniversary later this year, with pre-orders available from August 13. What ...

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 ...

There’s no rapping on Portishead’s 1994 debut album Dummy, and yet the LP stands tall alongside Mobb Deep’s The Infamous and GZA’s Liquid Swords on the list of moody, meditative ’90s rap masterpieces.

Rhiannon Giddens and Amanda Palmer team up for a cover of “It’s a Fire,” a track from the British trip-hop band Portishead‘s 1994 album Dummy. Giddens and Palmer recorded the song remotely from their ...