Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]
[Incubate Scene Report] A Guide to Bristol
May 21, 2012
[Report] SPOT Festival @ Aarhus, Denmark – Day 2
May 7, 2012
After yesterday’s pretty exhausting bus ride and sleeping a lot we worked today at the report of day two of our experiences on the Danish showcase festival SPOT. If you missed day 1 make sure you’ll check it here! Volcano day party Our day started with a showcase event hosted by the Copenhagen-based management company [...]
[Watch] All Tomorrow’s Parties documentary
April 21, 2011
Here’s a cool 6 part documentary of All Tomorrow’s Parties. With clips of performances of Sonic Youth, Animal Collective, Patti Smith, Portishead and many more this one is surely worth watching. You can check out part 1 underneath here and the other parts after the jump! Sorry about the Spanish subs. <object width=”640″ height=”390″><param name=”movie” [...]
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Film (Warp Films)
July 6, 2009
Warp Films presents: ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES – The Film, Featuring: Belle And Sebastian / Grizzly Bear / Sonic Youth / Battles / Portishead / Daniel Johnston / Grinderman / David Cross / Animal Collective / The Boredoms / Les Savy Fav / Mogwai / Octopus Project / Slint / The Dirty Three / The Yeah [...]
Special: Cool cover versions: Gloomy Sunday (Weekendbreak)
May 17, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOqiolytFw4] This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted! Today we shift our attention to the ‘Hungarian suicide song’ “Gloomy Sunday” originally composed by Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress who committed suicide in1968. It was covered many times here’s an overview containing Björk, Billie Holiday, Portishead, Diamanda Galas:
The new Portishead rules
April 16, 2008
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsuz4ki31zA&hl=en] Check their clip Machine Gun and hear them getting darker and darker.
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[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 21
May 25, 2012
Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]