Coachella: Portishead Kick Our Asses @ The Main Stage

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Prince, pigs and preachers: it's Coachella
Published 4/28/2008 by Rosie Swash at Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk
... and the equally hip Stereogum claiming their performance "kicked our asses" . It was left to ex-Pink Floyd man Roger Waters to bring the proceedings to a close, with what the Huffington Post called an ...

New Portishead Video - "The Rip"
Published 5/12/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
... LP, Beth is wounded, afraid inside her head, falling through changes, and essentially elaborating on the album's already iconic opening mantra. That said, and for all that heavyness, yay this is just great. Just this weekend we were crowing in bar talk about Portishead's Coachella triumph being the single most goosebumpy set of live music we expected to see this year; waking up to a new video is a great way to ease into the blog week. Like the premiere of the ...