Stereogum — BEAK> is the krautrock-inspired side-project trio led by Portishead production mastermind Geoff Barrow, and they’ve got a weird new record coming out: A split EP that they recorded with themselves. The EP includes two new BEAK> songs and two more r... more info

Stereogum — Portishead production mastermind Geoff Barrow also leads the improv-based, krautrock-influenced trio BEAK>, and they’re about to release a new split EP with themselves. On the BEAK KAEB EP, they record two songs under the name BEAK and two more und... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis BEAK>, the band featuring Portishead's Geoff Barrow, will release a new "double b-side" EP that's a split with their alter-egos, . What's the difference between the two? Jonwayne. There are videos from tracks on either side of... more info

Nialler9 — Isaac Hayes’ ‘Ike’s Rap II’ is the source sample of two of the best British tracks of the nineties in Portishead’s ‘Glory Box’ and Tricky’s ‘Hell Around The Corner’. The Portishead version is itself flipped by 18 year-old Ontario ... more info

Nialler9 — I had Torres pegged as a Nashville singer-songwriter when she first came around. Mackenzie Scott has returned with a rougher, tougher edge. The American decamped to Bridport in Dorset, England to record her second album and then to Portishead’s Ad... more info

The Telegraph — Pop diva Lady Gaga's duet with Tony Bennett will top the bill at Montreux Jazz Festival as Sam Smith, Lenny Kravitz and Portishead play Switzerland festival too more info

The Independent — Blur have been revealed as the latest headliners for Benicassim 2015, joining the Prodigy, Portishead, and Florence + The Machine. more info

Stereogum — The British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull has been making music since the mid-’60s, and her shit is still darker and meaner and more mythic than most everything else out there. On her new album Give My Love To London, Faithfull worked with p... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — UK duo Sleaford Mods released Divide & Exit earlier this year and one of its strongest songs, "Tiswas," will be the basis for a new EP released on November 24 via Invada (the label cofounded by Portishead's Geoff Barrow).... more info

NME — 'Meow The Jewels' will be recorded if fans raise enough money online more info