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“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

MusicRadar

"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

Metal Hammer

“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

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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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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.

AAP

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

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“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

Louder

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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

“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"

Louder

Massive Attack to tackle climate crisis at their first live show in five years

Bristol-formed trip-hop band have collaborated with climate scientists ahead of return to their home city

The Independent UK

Massive Attack plan festival powered by 100% renewable energy

Band hope festival will be a prototype for an industry they say is not doing enough to reduce its environmental impact

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Who is Banksy? Wild theories over identity of world-famous artist as legal row threatens to reveal his name

Questions about the graffiti artist’s true identity have kept art lovers entertained for decades

Evening Standard

Who is Banksy? The latest theories as new work appears around London

There have been numerous rumours about the artist’s identity over the years and the interest continues with the arrival of a new series on the capital’s streets

Evening Standard

Massive Attack guitarist Angelo Bruschini dies following lung cancer diagnosis

The UK trip-hop collective hailed the musician as a 'singularly brilliant and eccentric talent'

The Guardian - UK

Tricky: ‘I was less nervous going to prison than I was getting on stage’

As his debut Maxinquaye gets reissued, the Bristolian music legend answers your questions on Beyoncé, Bob Marley and annoying Gary Oldman with a Twix

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Evening Standard

Sinéad O’Connor’s best songs, from My Special Child to I Am Stretched On Your Grave

The 1990 hit, written by Prince, is really just the beginning of O’Connor’s extraordinary music catalogue

Louder

Thom Yorke on the Radiohead and Massive Attack album that never happened

Bristol trip-hop dons Massive Attack were lined up to remix Radiohead's OK Computer in its entirety – until life got in the way...

Bristol Post

The Bristol pub that inspired Massive Attack and Roni Size

It's one of Bristol's best-loved pubs

MusicRadar

Attica Blues: "This album opened doors for other people. We played our part so the Little Simz of the world could come through"

Attica Blues' self-titled 1997 debut album coined a new sound in British Black music. We find out how it was made

The Guardian - UK

How Mark Stewart set the tone for post-punk protest music

The Pop Group’s lead singer, who has died at 62, whipped political confrontation into a thrilling mix of avant-funk and crashing soundscapes

Bristol Post

Tributes to The Pop Group founder and frontman Mark Stewart who has died aged 62

Massive Attack among those paying tribute to the Bristol rock star, artist and activist

Louder

"Are we a f**king punk band now?" The ugly truth behind Mezzanine, the bleak, beautiful masterpiece which ripped Massive Attack apart

Released on April 20, 1998, Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine sounded like nothing that had come before. 25 years on, it still does

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