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Friday, October 14 2011

The Album That Changed Everything: Massive Attack’s ‘Blue Lines’

Even now with all our understanding and acceptance of genre-mashing, Massive Attack’s opening salvo remains as bold and eclectic, as utterly assured a musical message as it was upon release.


Wednesday, September 14 2011

15 Landmark Dance Tracks from 1991

As a precursor to PopMatters' upcoming retrospective on music in 1991, Sound Affects takes at look at 15 pivotal tracks from the year where dance music's potential to amaze seemed boundless.


Friday, September 9 2011

Counterbalance: Year One

In this special one-year anniversary edition of Counterbalance, Eric Klinger and Jason Mendelsohn discuss their first year combing through the pop music canon (as determined by Acclaimed Music's calculations of every best-of list available), share a few favorites, and justify a couple items on their expense account.


Friday, May 6 2011

Counterbalance No. 32: Massive Attack’s ‘Blue Lines’

For the 32nd edition of Counterbalance, Mendelsohn and Klinger sang about the sun and danced among the trees. As a result they very nearly missed their deadline. Nevertheless, their take on Massive Attack's 1991 trip-hop masterpiece is next.


Tuesday, April 20 2010

It’s All Good: An Interview with Daddy G of Massive Attack

When not sickened with the United Kingdom turning into Big Brother, excited by the possibilities of YouTube, or stunned by their nationwide artwork banning, Daddy G of Massive Attack is more than happy to be back into the fold than ever before, and he tells PopMatters all about it.


Monday, February 8 2010

Massive Attack: Heligoland

The Bristol downtempo legends return. Still attacking. Only now, less massive.


Thursday, February 4 2010

Massive Attack - “Splitting the Atom” (video)


Friday, November 13 2009

Horace Andy and Alpha: Two Phazed People

With the help of Alpha’s confident, well-crafted beats, Horace Andy proves that he is still in integral part of the music world.


Monday, April 13 2009

Various Artists: Protected Massive Samples

Massive Attack is opened up, and its insides are revealed to be made of muzak and precious stones.


Friday, April 10 2009

Portishead


Slipped Discs 2006 (Features) [12.Jan.07]
Peeping Tom: Peeping Tom (Reviews) [31.May.06]
Massive Attack: Collected (Reviews) [27.Apr.06]
Massive Attack: 100th Window (Reviews) [18.Jun.03]
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