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Robert Fripp

“The aim was to be ‘the best group in the world’… this easily becomes confused with ‘the most successful group in the world,’ at which point the music may get lost”: Robert Fripp’s observation of King Crimson

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Ever wondered what the band is all about? Here are several ways of approaching the question, suggested by the man who’s done the most thinking about it

Riverside/Klone

Klone guitarist Guillame Bernard chooses his favourite Riverside songs

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Both Riverside and Klone will be touring the UK and Ireland together in May

Roger Waters

“It’s about keeping rich people rich and poor people poor… that’s the reason we’re in perpetual war”: When Roger Waters was asked to take on the mantle of Pink Floyd, it rejuvenated him

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After the revelation of his Desert Trip festival experience, he returned with his Us + Them tour – eight years after he thought he’d delivered his swan song

Prog Tracks

Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Big Big Train, Exploring Birdsong, Midas Fall and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

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Great new prog music to check out from Caleb Landry Jones, Circuline, Dave McLean, Abstrakt Lake and more...

The Gift

“We can effectively run ourselves and keep the band releasing material without compromising creative integrity.” Introducing The Gift

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Prog spoke with UK prog rockers The Gift on the eve of the release of their second album Land Of Shadows

Kevin Ayers - Falling Up

“There was too much isolation, loneliness and access to cheap booze and drugs”: Kevin Ayers’ Falling Up reissue

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Despite its background, Soft Machine man’s 1988 comeback makes a refreshing return

nine inch nails - the downward spiral

“Updating The Wall for disaffected, mid-90s youth”: The prog roots of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral

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Trent Reznor’s 1994 epic explored the collapse of a character like Pink Floyd had done 15 years earlier - but in a musically different manner

Prog Tracks

Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Neal Morse, Haken and more

By Prog, Natasha Scharf published

Cool new prog music from NMB, Edward Reekers, Frankie & The Witch Fingers and more...

montage of Prog's tracks of the week band images for 9 June 2023

Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from King Gizzard, IO Earth and more

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Cool new prog music from ZIO, Monuments, The Book Of Revelations and more...

Prog Tracks

Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from King Gizzard, eMolecule and more...

By Prog, Jerry Ewing, Natasha Scharf published

Cool new prog music from Robert Reed, That Joe Payne, Toby Peterson-Stewart, Giant Walker and more...

Barclay James Harvest

Thirteen gems from the Barclay James Harvest back catalogue

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Here's some of the best tracks from Oldham's finest prog export Barclay James Harvest

Pink Floyd Live At Knebworth 1990 album (2021 release)

Pink Floyd's Live At Knebworth release coincides with 30th anniversary of BRIT School

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Pink Floyd's 1990 Knebworth show led to the formation of the BRIT School – students will return the favour with honorary performance in 2021

Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound Of Thunder box set

Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder: Restored, re-edited and remixed for new home release

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It was revealed last month that Delicate Sound Of Thunder would land in cinemas in October - now a home release has been confirmed for later in the year

Pink Floyd Jigsaws 2021

New Pink Floyd jigsaw puzzle range celebrates more of their iconic album covers

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New collection of 500 and 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles featuring the artwork from Echoes, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, The Endless River and more will be released later this year

Pink Floyd Pub

Appeal launched to save pub where Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett and David Gilmour first met

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Locals bid to preserve Cambridge pub, formerly The Crown, where early conversations between Syd Barrett and David Gilmour may have led to the birth of Pink Floyd

Rog + Nick

Nick Mason compares Roger Waters to Stalin over Pink Floyd bullying claims

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Nick Mason says he’s “flabbergasted” by Rogers Waters’ claims that he was bullied in Pink Floyd by David Gilmour and Rick Wright

Rogers Waters onstage

Roger Waters shares new liner notes for Pink Floyd's Animals and teases memoirs

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Pink Floyd feud continues as Roger Waters shares redacted Animals liner notes for long-awaited 2018 remaster

Pink Floyd in 1971

Roger Waters dismisses his ex-Pink Floyd bandmates as ‘snotty’ and ‘toxic’, says David Gilmour felt ‘insignificant’

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Roger Waters continues his long-standing feud with his former Pink Floyd bandmates, labelling their company ‘toxic’

Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt launches Lockdown Licks tutorials

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A Saucerful Of Secrets' Guy Pratt shares bass tips from his work with Pink Floyd and Madonna

Rush

Eleven great Rush tracks from the 90s and beyond

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The cream of the Canadian trio Rush's later years

Boozer Cruiser

Jacob Holm-Lupo and the Boozer Cruiser release tragic dementia ‘prog poem'

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Not Really Me Not Any More is the latest collaboration between White Willow/Donner mastermind and Prog writer

Victoria K

Victoria K release video for symphonic Persephone

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Australian prog metal quartet Victoria K will release second album Kore in October

Bjorn Riis portrait against a grey wall

Airbag's Bjorn Riis shares graceful new video for The Siren

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Bjorn Riis' Floydian track The Siren, is taken from upcoming album Everything To Everyone

Darkher in a forest holding a rosary

Watch Darkher's haunting new video for Where The Devil Waits

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Singer-songwriter Darkher's Jayn Maiven prepares to release her second album, The Buried Storm in April

Billy Howerdel

Check out the dark solo single from A Perfect Circle's Billy Howerdel

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Billy Howerdel releases the mysterious Poison Flowers ahead of his upcoming debut solo album