L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Portishead focuses on space, echo and depth in a show Tuesday night at the Shrine Expo Center: Times pop music critic Randall Roberts reviews the return of the U.K. band. more info

Stereogum — In case you missed their Progress Report, a critically acclaimed slot at ATP and their appearance on Jimmy Fallon, Portishead are back. Mesmerizing, enchanting and haunting are just some of multiple adjectives that could be used to describe Portis... more info

Guardian Music — The band are also planning a tour in 2012, while Thom Yorke aims to finish his next solo album Atoms for PeaceRadiohead will return to the studio later this year to record the follow-up to The King of Limbs. After a handful of gigs in America, the ba... more info

KEXP Seattle — The city of Bristol in England, 1991.  Two unemployed musicians met in a job retraining program offered by the city. Geoff Barrow was a producer and keyboardist and Beth Gibbons was a singer who had played in lots of local bands. They started making... more info

Guardian Music — Prince and the Rolling Stones love her, but Ana Moura almost didn't find fado at allAna Moura sits in a restaurant in downtown Lisbon explaining how she was always destined to be a fado singer, she just hadn't always realised it. "We have this saying... more info

Chicago Tribune — In the early ‘90s, the British fishing town of Portishead produced a namesake band that made beautifully disturbing music: anguished vocals over chilled hip-hop break beats, accented by Spaghetti Western guitars and eerie atmospherics. more info

Stereogum — Since the last Shut Up, Dude, team Stereogum saw Jeff Mangum perform twice at ATP NJ and once again on our laptops when the Neutral Milk man surprised Wall Street with a Minutemen cover. On Saturday I even got to meet Jeff randomly outside the first ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Swans @ Paramount Theater You saw pictures from Friday and Portishead from Saturday. Here are the rest from that 2nd day in Asbury Park. They continue below...... more info

XLR8R — As part of the second-ever Independent Label Market—an event which will host a number of independent imprints selling "a combination of new, old, and exclusive releases" on North 6th Street in Brooklyn this Saturday, October 8—XL will be releasin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Black Star on Colbert Big night for music on late night TV last night (and lately in general). You may have heard that Portishead played their first TV appearance in 13 years on Jimmy Fallon last night. Black... more info