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“It was not pornographic. It was serious”: Vangelis’ fury at the treatment of Aphrodite’s Child album 666
The late keyboard genius was never interested in fame, but in promoting the belief that music is science, as he explained in a rare interview
Excellent proggy sounds you must hear from Bruce Soord, Exploring Birdsong, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog from VLMV, Aisles, Lost In Kyiv, Long Distance Calling and more in all new Tracks Of The Week
The bloody-minded duo who dared to delete a Robert Fripp solo in front of him
Their groundbreaking 1994 album has stood the test of time – but their refusal to compromise with label and management made it look as if their time was up
Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis singer, 50 years ago
Shaking with nerves, the band’s former full-time drummer took over the main mic in Canada in March 1976
The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches
She’d had no plans for a life in music, but wound up working with some of the biggest names of the 60s folk resurgence
How Nightwish merged science and music with Richard Dawkins
Thomas Holopainen studied biology before a career in music came calling, but never forgot his passion for the subject, or his admiration for the evolutionary biologist
The miraculous rise of Porcupine Tree, the modern prog superstars who started out as a joke
An archive interview with the band whose modern take on progressive rock brought the genre out of the past and gave it a future
The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing
TV creative used to hire Steven Wilson to make ad music. In the late 90s they wrote a film together. They’re still waiting to make it
“Marrying the idea of death to a singalong chorus is interesting”: This band love sneaking prog into record collections
American quintet are more inspired by Billy Joel than Jethro Tull – except their keyboardist – practice a non-virtuoso style of prog, and limit themselves to one 19-minute song per decade
The British blues boom band who went prog, with help from John Lennon, heatstroke and weed
They may have existed on the periphery of the prog world, but their influence is a fascinating example of cultural cross-fertilisation
Bill Bruford’s first and best drum lesson as King Crimson recorded Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
He’d left Yes to join Robert Fripp in the hope of growing and learning. He didn’t expect it to happen the way it did
“Genesis said they liked the track, which was ironic. It was one of the reasons I’d left”: Steve Hackett’s risky solo move
A fateful Jaco Pastorius show, a run-in with LA cops, rebuilding a Genesis song… Please Don’t Touch! aimed to tackle the unanswerable question, ‘What is prog?’
How Kraftwerk influenced a band who influenced a whole era of British music
An undersold concert by the German icons in 1975 led a young duo to adopt electronic instruments. Their first song launched a clutch of cutting-edge genres
Bloody Well Right! Breakfast In America might have had the bangers, but it was Crime Of The Century that truly saved Supertramp's bacon
Facing the harsh reality of their first two albums being commercial flops, Supertramp were staring into the abyss when they came to make third album, Crime Of The Century
Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog you must hear from Ebony Buckle, Grice, Amulets and more in all new Tracks Of The Week
The story behind the Phil Collins hit that Genesis wish they'd recorded
"There’s always a dispute about this"
Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park and why he might stop growling again
We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus
