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BEAK> - BEAK> Review Posted by Lucas Wesley on 11.10.2009 Geoff Barrow of Portishead uses his time off to form a band.

During high school, my friends and I misspent more than a few Saturday nights driving aimlessly around the suburbs searching for fast food and listening to chill-out mainstays like Funki Porcini, A Tribe Called Quest and Thievery Corporation.

HSL continues its touring relationship with legendary Bristol-based electronic/trip-hop collective Massive Attack, supplying all lighting equipment and crew to the current UK and European tour, working with lighting designer Robin Haddow.

Final Version of At Large. Heard in Total Anarchy and in Fionn's At Large album.

For much of the past year, Tricky has been in Paris exercising a little philanthropy.

Brandon Flores, 28, is the frontman and vocalist for the local hip-hop/punk band name:bran. Originally from Chicago, he lives in Ponte Vedra Beach with his wife and three kids.

Amanda Lirange vocalist/instrumentalist for the Deadites, 7 Minute Stagger, and the Mike & Amanda Lirange duo What Lirange listens to on the Project Playlist Web site: 1. ' Black No.

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This week Inbox flies away with Geoff Barrow, the creative glue behind Bristol-based experimental rock trio, Beak> . While he waits for the captain's cue to turn off all electronic devices, Barrow fills us in on things like unbearable Basement Jaxx shows, wedding bloopers, footie and teatime with the family, Beth Gibbons, and gossipy bathroom ...

This is Eskazed's first one net-label release. The album has been started to working at 2007.

To continue our electronic odyssey began in Part I here are some artists you might find at SPL to plug in to and up the amperage of your playlist.

There is only one Massive Attack. While countless acts have tried to emulate, draw upon and even copy, no-one has managed to combine minimalist electro, rock and dub the way they do.

Today's Spotlight cover on rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson refers to a street named after Jackson last week in Oklahoma City's Bricktown Entertainment District.

Peats Ridge always presents an eclectic mix of emerging and established artists and the 2009 installment of the Festival will be no different with over 200 artists performing across 10 stages.

Bristol trip hop pioneers Massive Attack are working on their fifth album 'LP5', due to be released later this year.

Studying the crescendos and decrescendos of classical music, the group Mono has been composing triumphant instrumental post-rock for 10 years and counting.

Trip-hop's second renaissance may be in danger. While Massive Attack's Bristol contemporaries Portishead and Tricky brought the style roaring back to music's forefront with a pair of hum-dingers, Third and Knowle West Boy respectfully, it didn't seem too much to ask to bet on Massive Attack's return from dormancy to complete the trifecta.

Dido says her next album, her fourth studio effort, will have a strong electronic influence.

The Bristol trip-hop duo have asked dubstep's dark knight to rework several songs from their forthcoming album The next dubstep ... Burial is to work his dark mojo on Massive Attack's material.

Sometimes it's better to risk failure with a big, bold experiment than to stay with the comfortable and famliar.