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‘We put all of life into the mincer’: These New Puritans on their kaleidoscopic new album

Adored by Björk, Massive Attack and Elton John, the cult avant-popsters are back with an album that takes in everything from Greek church bells to Ukraine. We meet the Barnett twins among the Southend amusement arcades

The Guardian - UK

Massive Attack just sent their music to the moon and back

The trip-hop pioneers launched a cover of a Russian punk band into space as part of an art installation

Louder

"It's the cleanest, greenest festival event ever staged": Massive Attack breaks world record with battery-powered, 100% vegan concert

A new report by climate scientists found that the event generated 98% less emissions than comparable shows

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“History shows it’s often the combination of art and science that overcomes the greatest challenges we face”: Massive Attack to headline London’s first fully battery-powered festival this summer

The trip-hop pioneers will be supported by Air, Forensics and Tirzah, with more names to be announced

Louder

Massive Attack to headline London's first ever 100 per cent battery powered day festival

Massive Attack are set to headline London's "first ever 100 per cent battery powered" day festival. The Bristol trip hop duo - comprising Robert '3D' Del Naja and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall - will top the bill at the all-new LIDO Festival at Victoria Park in East London on June…

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Massive Attack set for first London festival in 9 years with eco show

The Bristol legends have been announced as headliners for the new LIDO Festival in Victoria Park, and it’s going to set a new standard for decarbonised live events

Evening Standard

“I thought I’d have to sell my house. The manager suggested we got part-time jobs”: Marillion were facing oblivion. Then they made This Strange Engine and found a way forward

They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong

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Now Playing: 6 songs we've been listening to in the What Hi-Fi? test rooms

Our new monthly playlist includes fresh releases from The Weather Station and Coheed And Cambria, as well as go-to classics from the likes of Massive Attack and Macklemore.

What Hi-Fi?

Massive Attack hope to release new music next year: “It’s good – I’m looking forward to it!”

The trip-hop pioneers have been sitting on new songs for four years due to a “dispute at the label”

Louder

“We’ve been there once, and once was enough": Massive Attack go on the attack

U2, Adele, Celine Dion, Madonna, The Eagles… If you’re playing a Vegas residency then you haven’t got Massive's memo

MusicRadar

“I wish we’d had bidding wars – a mad time dining out with everyone falling in love with us. But no; we had one dude with a small label who believed in us”: Gavin Rossdale on the sacred and absurd experience of making Bush’s Sixteen Stone

30 years on, the band leader recalls how his partnership with former guitarist Nigel Pulsford was the catalyst that sent him into a world of melody, twin tape recorders –and taking a lesson from Massive Attack

Guitar World

“His guitar work can be heard all over iconic tracks from their internationally acclaimed Mezzanine album”: Massive Attack guitarist Angelo Bruschini's guitars and gear are currently up for auction

The auction includes a 1968 Fender Telecaster Thinline, a 1996 PRS Custom 24, and a custom guitar made by famed British luthier Johnny Kinkade

Guitar World

Gig-goers take part in experiment aiming to make live music more sustainable

Concerts by Massive Attack, Idles and Nile Rodgers are being held as part of a launch event for Liverpool.

The Independent UK

“The core thing to remember is that your beats are slow - 90 bpm maximum - and they are filthy”: Unpacking the dark, sample-based sound of trip-hop

It's this genre that set a blueprint for today's down-tempo sounds

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"I imagined cutting my hair to have a green reverse mohawk like Keith Flint." Leprous vocalist Einar Solberg picks the 10 records that changed his life

The songs that turned Leprous’s leader from teenage raver to prog metal maestro

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“It’s a sector which has a lot to say about climate change, but unfortunately it’s not doing much about it”: Massive Attack unveil live music’s low carbon future in Act 1.5

Massive Attack pull off lowest carbon large-scale gig yet in the UK

The Independent UK

Massive Attack to stage greenest ever gig in bid to change the music industry

Event in the trip-hop pioneers’ hometown of Bristol is being hailed as the lowest carbon-emissions show of its scale ever staged

The Guardian - UK

Massive Attack castigate music industry over climate inaction: ‘We don’t need to talk. We need to act’

As the group prepare for Act 1.5, a Bristol festival aiming to have the lowest emissions of any big music event, Robert Del Naja says decarbonised touring is possible

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It's Now or Never - for a Massive Attack on the system

An artwork that tracks an overwhelming amount of real-time information, such as daily heartbeats, kicks off the Now or Never technology-arts festival.

Louder

Every Massive Attack album ranked from worst to best

From debut Blue Lines to return-to-form Heligoland, we revisit and reassess every album by Bristol's finest

Louder

“What is happening is the direct result of years of normalised racism and Islamophobia, enabled by politicians and the British media.” Massive Attack share statement calling out the UK government amid violent, racist, far-right riots

“Even in their responses to this violence, our Prime Minister and Home Secretary fail to centre Muslim people, or call out racism for what it is.“ Massive Attack on the UK's far-right riots

The Independent UK

Massive Attack pulls out of Georgia gig in solidarity with anti-government protests

Georgia is seeing thousands of demonstrations against a controversial law regulating media and NGOs

The Guardian - UK

Massive Attack pull out of gig in Georgia in solidarity with protesters

The band said performing at a state-owned arena could be seen as endorsing a government attack on human rights

The Guardian - UK

More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine

Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor Barclays

Louder

“Our music is for sale but our humanity and morality is not.” Massive Attack voice their support for artists boycotting music festivals in protest against “corporate support for genocide in Palestine”

Massive Attack stand behind artists pulling out of festivals sponsored by companies funding the Israeli military, after Nick Cave tells a conflicted musician: "Play"

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