Latest articles by Ben Myers
How her vision, clarity and support of siblings and established musicians made her prog’s first pop star – and pop’s first prog star – by the age of 21
Authentic and challenging, the quartet shaped the music of a decade with their major-label debut
After leaving The Teardrop Explodes, he was on a mission – but on seeing him wearing nothing but a turtle shell on the cover of Fried, the world needed some convincing
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez challenged himself to stop aiming for perfection, and challenged old friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala to write direct lyrics. It wasn’t easy for either of them
A 2013 audience with an unexpectedly calm and approachable Dave Mustaine
It’s been more than a decade since Karnivool released an album – this is the how they became the prog metal fan’s favourite cult prog metal band
Zakk Wylde was one of rock’s great wildmen – until he was told to kick the booze or die
In this classic 2013 interview, Ghost mainman Tobias Forge talks ambition, success and Satan
Guns, goths and politicians - the world according to Misfits frontman and goth-punk icon Glenn Danzig
System Of A Down vocalist hails the Mothers Of Invention leader for more than just his ambitious approach to making music
Out-and-out progressive rock it isn’t, but the 1998 record’s shared values influenced Steven Wilson, Anathema, Radiohead, Dream Theater, Katatonia and many others
Wally De Backer’s Grammy-winning 2011 record proves he’s more Brian Eno then Ed Sheeran
Third album Black And White is Exhibit A in a case that also includes Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Steve Hillage and Nik Turner
Triumphant sixth album may be nostalgia for a previous decade, but it stands with the work of other bands who helped make 1973 the genre’s most vintage year
Notoriously dysfunctional band’s 1989 album – their first with Mike Patton – made them much more than a cult rock oddity
Novelist Ben Myers (The Gallows Pole/The Offing) salutes Joey Ramone, the king of the underdogs
How Public Image Ltd shifted from post-punk to a more progressive sound on 1979's Metal Box
Funkadelic's Maggot Brain has a solo that sounds like Rick Wakeman being dumped in the ghetto at midnight and told to play for this life!
Some people love bagpipes, some people don't, but no one can deny the part they've played in painting rock'n'roll's magnificent tapestry
It's gone down in history as a classic, but The Clash's self-tiled debut album offered a thrilling but limited blueprint for the future
Psychedelic Brits wow at a very unlikely venue
Wonderfully weighty study of all that glittered – and no small debt to prog from Simon Reynolds
