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  The Rolling Stones Are Headlining Glastonbury 2013, Daft Punk Are Not

  March 27, 2013 – The Rolling Stones, Vampire Weekend, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Portishead, the xx, Phoenix, Nas, and more have all been booked for this year's Glastonbury Festival, organizers announced today (March 27). …
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  Portishead's Geoff Barrow Picks a Fight With (Deceased) Amy Winehouse

  September 20, 2012 – Portishead's Geoff Barrow faces sour times after he referred to the late Amy Winehouse as "Whiney Shitehouse" in an interview with ElectronicBeats.net. …
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• Beak>, '>>' (Invada)

  July 24, 2012 – Bristol, England, is a town that must collectively ask, "What did we do last night?" every single morning and twice on weekends before lighting the morning spliff and drinking its breakfast. …
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• Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury, 'Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One' (Invada)

  May 7, 2012 – Minimalist ode to Judge Dredd's 2000 AD is ultimately reverent homage to John Carpenter's 1981. …
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  Portishead's Geoff Barrow Spills on Quakers Rap Project

  April 5, 2012 – If you're anxiously waiting for the next Portishead album… then keep waiting. Producer and spokesperson Geoff Barrow is too distracted working on about a million other things: There's his Invada label, home to enigmatic chanteuse Anika and sludgegazers Though Forms; there's his post-rock band Beak>, who are due for a sophomore album this year; and Drokk, an homage to the comic book hero Judge Dredd. …
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  Welcome to SPIN's First Ever Electronic Dance Music Blog

  February 24, 2012 – Welcome to CONTROL VOLTAGE, SPIN's new blog dedicated to electronic music (for dancing and otherwise). Hopefully, you will have figured out the subject from the blog's title, which is a reference to CV/Gate, an old-school method for controlling analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. Until MIDI came along in the 1980s, CV/Gate was the primary way for hardware devices to "talk" to each other. …
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  Portishead's Barrow Drops 2012 Invada Label Sampler

  January 25, 2012 – Today, Portishead's Geoff Barrow's kindly tweet-dropped a new streaming sampler featuring recent and upcoming releases from his eclectic Invada Records roster, including two new tracks from Barrow's own woozy side-project, Beak>. …
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  Portishead, Goldfrapp Members Premiere Hypnotic 'Joan of Arc' Soundtrack

  October 31, 2011 – On Saturday night, Portishead's Adrian Utley, Goldfrapp's Will Gregory, and a small orchestra performed the duo's haunting soundtrack to Carl Theodore Dreyer's harrowing 1928 film The Passion of Joan Of Arc at New York's Alice Tully Hall, marking the first time the piece was performed in America. So, how did it sound?: Complementing a film with a 17-minute opening scene, their score didn't exactly have a lot of ups and downs, but inste …
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  Mastodon, Portishead, J. Cole Hit Late Night

  October 6, 2011 – Late-night TV played host to a wide range of musical acts on Wednesday night. Metal giants Mastodon rocked The Late Show With David Letterman. Trip-hop pioneers Portishead descended upon Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Black Star, the duo of rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli, visited The Colbert Report. And hip-hop up-and-comer J. Cole stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live. …
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  10 Best Sets at All Tomorrow's Parties

  October 3, 2011 –  …
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