Latest Prog News
Big Big Train announce trumpeter Paul Mitchell joins the band on a full-time basis
UK prog rockers Big Big Train bolster their line-up with the full-time addition of trumpeter, vocalist and percussionist Paul Mitchell
David Gilmour announces Live At The Circus Maximus movie and The Luck And Strange Concerts live album
David Gilmour's Live At The Circus Maximums hits cinemas in September and is released in October
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard become most high-profile band to pull music from Spotify over CEO’s investments in military technology
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard remove music from Spotify as a protest against its CEO's involvment in the 'defence industry'
"I want to lick you now!": Things are getting Extreme in the Fripp-Willcox household
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox's ever-expanding archive of online tomfoolery has been updated
Pure Reason Revolution announce The Dark Third 20th Anniversary UK shows with Chloë Alper
Pure Reason Revolution vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Chloe Alper will return to the band for the first time in four years for two special live shows in February
Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay share live version of Roxy Music's Out Of The Blue as they announce new AM PM Soho Live album
Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, Andy Kackay and Paul Thompson unite for new live album AM PM Soho Live, out in September
"The whole album shimmers with a sonic gloss that's brought it to the 21st century with no loss of historic integrity..." XTC's third album Drums And Wires gets new Steven Wilson Atmos mix
XTC's third album, Drums And Wires, will be released on heavyweight vinyl and CD/Blu-ray in September
Latest Prog Features
Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time
Members of Marillion, King Crimson, Nightwish, Big Big Train and others compile a list of a uniqe artist’s most powerful and persuasive creations
Krautrock icons Can and their brief interlude as British pop stars
Their one-off exploration of disco-pop, I Want More, featured lyrics written by a roadie and gave them a Top 30 hit in the UK. They took the short-term clamour in their stride
"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview
On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did
Joseph Arthur’s first acid trip turned him on to the majesty of Rush
In an incident he doesn’t recommend emulating, the singer-songwriter’s appreciation for the Canadian giants was cemented – but that’s only one of four reasons he loves them
The Pink Floyd songs that influenced final Pink Floyd album The Endless River
The biggest influence on The Endless River? Pink Floyd themselves. Here are the sounds from the band’s past that informed their 2014 release
Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk
Decades after playing to 80,000 people a night with Wang Chung, the Canterbury artist went wild on Epigonal Quark, with help from Syd Arthur and others
Latest Prog Reviews
"Adheres largely to the blueprint of its warmly received predecessor." Alan Parsons' From The New World
Not yet ratedFormer Project man releases his sixth studio album under his name alone
Anthony Phillips infuses nimble guitar work with surreal intros on Radio Clyde 1978
Extended, remastered edition of 2003 release will appeal to fans of the Genesis co-founder’s playing and early solo songcraft
“Tender and free-flowing”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row, expanded to 4 discs
A fine revamp of one of his key post-Cream milestones, including two excellent TV concerts
“Hymnal and melancholy qualities are still to die for”: Greg Lake Live returns from 2005
His band doesn’t have the pedigree of many of his collaborators, but a future Jethro Tull guitarist and a TV show musical director prove highly capable foils in three-disc set
“A reminder of what an inspirational band they were”: Horslips At The BBC
Five discs of previously unreleased material from the Celtic rock pioneers
“The mixing of old and new is exemplary”: Tangerine Dream’s Coventry Cathedral 22
An impressive account of the electronic pioneers’ return to the Midlands half a century after their legendary show
