Artist: Portishead

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • Happy 40, Chicago Reader! In celebration of this milestone, Miles Raymer digs deep through the Reader's music criticism archives . • Sun-Times' Thomas Conner has the full report from Smashing Pumpkins' Riviera Theatre performance last Friday, which included a bonus reunion of Chicago '90s shoegazer act, Catherine . • Gapers Block reviewed last week's much anticipated [...]

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Continuamos con nuestra reseña del Festival Corona Capital , que se llevó a cabo este sábado 15 de octubre. La primera parte ya está arriba . Aquí la segunda: Después de These New Puritans vino una de las fallas más tristes de la velada, pues implicó media hora menos de M83 , grupo que apenas estaba presentando su nueva placa en nuestro país (y a nivel mundial) y que desafortunadamente fue presa de la mala organización, pues por alguna razón sus aparatos nunca terminaron de arrancar, a pesar de un técnico desesperado que iba de [...]

15 de octubre de 2011 , 13:00 horas. Estación el metro: Ciudad Deportiva. El vagón va lleno y de inmediato puedo ver que muchos de los que viajan van al mismo lugar que yo. No es tan difícil saberlo pues exhiben en sus manos el boleto de entrada al Festival Corona Capital , que este año celebra su segunda edición. También abundan las camisetas de The Strokes , el plato principal de la velada; los lentes de sol, pantalones ajustados y camisetas de las más variadas marcas y modelos. Así, [...]

Cada semana me doy a la tarea de escribirles mi humilde opinion sobre dos nuevos lanzamientos que en lo personal me parece que vale la pena darles al menos una escuchada pero hoy, para la primera reseña de la semana he decidido 'expander mis horizontes' para hablar un poco sobre la segunda edicion del festival Corona Capital (no me estan patrocinando, y tampoco sera la 'reseña' mas profesional) pero creo que hay mucho que comentar sobre este festival ya que siempre... SIEMPRE, habran miles de quejas sobre equis cosa y muchas veces suele olvidarse lo que realmente ha podido llegar [...]

Beth Gibbons of Portishead @ Sound Academy: photo by Michael Ligon There are bands I wish to see live who I have accepted will probably never reunite (The Smiths, New Order) and then there are the bands that I think I will never get to see live but then miraculously the band comes out of hiatus or retirement and goes on tour. Of the latter category, I've seen The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, and most recently, as well as more dear to my heart, Portishead . Along with fellow Bristolians Massive Attack, [...]

by Jess Watt - Staff Photographer Click here to check out the rest of the Portishead photos

Como les comentamos en su oportunidad, este sábado 15 de octubre se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de México la segunda edición del Festival Corona Capital en la curva 4 del Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. Aunque no es un festival muy grande y dura sólo un día, la cantidad de bandas y horarios sí obligará a elegir en algunos casos entre dos agrupaciones, un asunto que puede ser doloroso para todos aquellos que nos morimos por escuchar las diversas opciones pero no tenemos el súper poder de estar en dos lugares al mismo tiempo. [...]

Lincoln Center: Adrian Utley (of Portishead) and Will Gregory (of Goldfrapp) US premiere of The Passion of Joan of Arc October 29 Lincoln Center's White Light Festival will present a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer 's 1928 cinematic masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc , accompanied by the live performance and U.S. premiere of a musical score created by renowned musicians Adrian Utley and Will Gregory of the groups Portishead and [...]

What with everyone drooling over TKOL RMX 1234567 at the minute, this seems as good a time as any for the preconceptions of the remix to be reassessed, the limitless boundaries of its potential stretched, its infinite potential unleashed. And unleashing a seething hound of a thing is precisely what Doldrums has done in reinterpreting Portishead's Chase The Tear, the track they themselves struggled so consistently with recreating at July's inaugural I'll Be Your Mirror atop a hill in Alexandra Park . With the ink still drying on a deal with No Pain In [...]

• DOLDRUMS - CHASE THE TEAR (portishead / doldrums split 12")

Photo by Jeremy D. Larson Portishead control themselves. The first sign of it is the way singer Beth Gibbons' grips her microphone: a full upperbody squeeze as if she's holding two barbells to her chest. The entire show at Chicago's Aragon vibrated with a masterful balance of fat bass and velvet seduction that ushered in the audiences' collective catharsis. The trip-hop pioneers have released only three albums in their 20-year career - 19942s Dummy , a self-titled follow up in 1997 and Third in 2008 [...]

All those who think that remixing amounts to little more than stretching a track out to seven minutes and adding a four-on-the-floor kick: listen up. Toronto's Doldrums , at the tender age of 21, is demonstrating how it should really be done. The producer, freshly signed to No Pain In Pop, has completely reworked Portishead 's 'Chase The Tear', leaving only the most basic elements intact: a snippet of the arpeggiated synth, the vocal melody, the basic drum pattern. The track, originally a characteristically sombre affair, is rendered [...]

• DOLDRUMS - CHASE THE TEAR (portishead / doldrums split 12")

Frank Yang Some have been lumping Portishead's return to recording and touring, starting with the release of 20072s Third , in with the spate of '90s band reunions and reconciliations which the more cynical would assume be intended to cash in on the nostalgia of today's 30-somethings. This is basically wrong. Yes, the band were last properly active in the late '90s, their second self-titled album coming out in Fall 1997, but what separates Portishead from the pack are that Third was written and recorded [...]

By Kevin Seaman After a 13 year U.S. hiatus, Portishead (FINALLY!!!!!!!!!) made their triumphant return to New York City with two shows at the world renowned Hammerstein Ballroom. I have been a huge fan for over a decade, but in this case my tenure of fan-ship hadn't even allowed me to have seen them before. Amidst all the bands that I consider to be favorites, the absence of a live Portishead experience in my concert repertoire has been like...

Not sure what's iller, the fact that homey took it back to Dummy -era Portishead , or honeydip in her undies.

• DOLDRUMS - CHASE THE TEAR (Portishead / Doldrums split 12")
• Doldrums - I'm Homesick Sittin' Up Here In My Satellite

"Only You"—my favourite Portishead song and one of the greatest music videos of all time directed by Chris Cunningham !

As of the time of this posting, Bristol UK's Portishead are in the midst of their first show of a two-night stint at Sound Academy in Toronto. I'm super excited to see the group live tomorrow night, and even scored a photo pass for the show! And for Canadian Thanksgiving tomorrow, that photo pass will be one of those things I give thanks for, along with of course the important things like family and health. Portishead stopped in recently with "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" to perform a few songs including their new Amnesty International [...]

radiohead.com The key to being a brilliant British band circa 1997 was, clearly, to have "head" in your name somewhere. What other explanation could there be for Radiohead and Portishead to each release career highwater albums OK Computer and Portishead within four months of each other? Probably about as good odds of both band choosing to follow said successes up in decidedly unconventional fashion - Radiohead by basically abandoning their sound by going experimentally electronic in time for the new [...]

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