Latest Prog News
"This is a much more insular record." Steven Wilson reveals details of his upcoming studio album
Steven Wilson is expected to release the follow-up to last year's The Overview later this year
Marillion share new remix of Go! as they announce 25th anniversary reissue of marillion.com
Marillion will release a new Deluxe Edition of 1999's marillion.com on CD and vinyl in June
"There was about 380 people in the hall, sold out. There wasn’t a woman in sight."
The birth of a prog rock legend
Dee Snider details the emotional mushroom ceremony he participated in to resolve health issues
Dee Snider's experience with mushrooms was documented on the Acid For Squares podcast
Rick Wakeman launches new weekly podcast with comedian Griff Rhys Jones
Rick Wakeman and Griff Rhys Jones will launch new podcast, The Sound Of The Seventy Year Olds, on February 27
Steven Wilson announces new live album Impossible Tightrope and launches hi-res audiophile resource
Headphone Dust will host high-resolution, 5.1, and Atmos/spatial audio editions of Wilson's work
Maynard James Keenan thinks people have relegated Puscifer to the “third side-project category”
The singer believes the band have been “marginalised” due to the greater commercial success of his other two projects, Tool and A Perfect Circle
Latest Prog Features
Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, System 7, Major Parkinson in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog from Myrkus, Godsticks, Koyo Bloom and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Judy Dyble was always amazed at the quality of her collaborators
In 2018, Fairport Convention’s first female vocalist found herself inspired by a trapped rainbow, a bad Elvis impersonator and her early work with Giles, Giles and Fripp
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on why the early Beatles were so dangerous
As a young teen, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson fell in love with the mop-top Beatles. But then he dug deeper and discovered something darker, druggier and way more dangerous
“It wasn’t working, whatever we tried. It created a negative association”: Why Rush hated Tom Sawyer at first
Geddy Lee committed bass heresy, Alex Lifeson fought for a solo sound, and even the mixing desk wouldn’t cooperate as the band struggled to record what would become their signature song
“If I find him haunting me, I’ll know I did something wrong”: How Cardiacs completed late leader Tim Smith’s album LSD
A brother who took over the band, a singer who struggled to keep the secret and a determination to do exactly what their late leader would have wanted led to the end of an 18-year journey
“I blame The Beatles for me getting a whacking!” Derek Shulman’s path to Gentle Giant
Singer and future A&R icon recalls what the Fab Four meant to him, why Hendrix made him break up his first big band, and the truck stop where he met Syd Barrett, Eric Clapton and others
Latest Prog Reviews
Soen continue to become more metal and less prog with Reliance
Sticking to compositions of around four minutes, the musicianship and production remain exemplary. But it’s too often funnelled into predictable patterns
“Originally a career-staller, this version really is essential”: Ultravox’s The Collection – Deluxe Edition
Revisited with deep attention to detail, Midge Ure and co’s imperial phase reissue is a genuine audio-visual banquet
“An immersive emotional ride, showing that music makes us feel whole again”: Airbag’s Dysphoria Live
Over 20 years in, Oslo trio deliver their first official live album – and it was worth the wait
“They combine emotional intensity with rapidly evolving progressive chops”: EBB’s The Mirror
Scottish collective’s impressive second album demonstrates why their profile is exploding
“In many ways a dry run for The Wall”: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here remains mysterious at 50
Alienation, loss and a legendary live bootleg – the prog giants’ post-Dark Side masterpiece gets an impressive anniversary box set treatment.
“Often too leaden to float, but the future is visible”: Nektar’s deluxe edition of A Tab In The Ocean
1972 album, which saw them edging away from psychedelia back to standard rock, returns with live treats that hint at what was to come
