Grant Moon

Lonely Robot leader on being a benevolent dictator, working alone and in bands, and dealing with low self-esteem

Like Jimi Hendrix a decade earlier, Eddie Van Halen revolutionised the guitar. Three years on from his death, we continue to celebrate the late, great six-string icon who changed rock’n’roll forever

Like Foreigner? Def Leppard? Mutt Lange? Then there's every chance you'll love New York rockers Tempt

Pop, prog and metal collide on James LaBrie’s second solo album – with growling vocals that no doubt horrifed the prog cognoscenti. “That’s not me, I’ve never sung like that in my life!” he says

After an eight-year hiatus, progressive rock’s premier supergroup Transatlantic returned triumphant with The Whirlwind

Guitar icon hails bands including Rush and King Crimson, who delivered music that was “hard and heavy enough, but they took some risks outside the box”

Vocalist and keyboardist’s prog journey started with Gentle Giant: “I recall saying, ‘I don’t know what this music is, but I want to do that!’”

How the King Crimson man lost the album-collecting bug, lost most of his guitars, and nearly lost his appreciation for Gentle Giant

Taking cues from the big rock of the 60s, 70s and 80s (with a particular nod to GN’R), The Dust Coda are hoping third album Loco Paradise will excite you listening to it as much as it excited them making it

Ashley Sherlock has been compared to Rory Gallagher, but this rock aficionado is treading his own path

Veteran NWOHBM guitarist draws a line from jazz-fuelled experimentalists to the world’s heaviest bands

Rushden quartet The Fierce And The Dead are prog's unlikely heroes, whose brilliant 2018 album The Euphoric drew from a diverse selection of influences

The Alarm's Mike Peters on when the drugs do and don’t work, thinking he might never sing again, the new album, and the state of rock

Yes men Steve Howe and Jon Davison look back at the band’s turbulent recent history – and what the future may hold

Guns N' Roses changed the shape of rock'n'roll when they emerged in the mid-eighties. Here's a half-century of their very best, and the stories behind them.

With a new album that’s their heaviest, rockiest yet, Rodrigo y Gabriela are boldly taking metal and rock to where no one has so successfully taken it before

Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands on the "mathiness" of modern prog, world building, indigenous rights, and sounding a LOT like Rush

The Knifeworld, Mediaeval Baebes and Anathema musician Charlie Cawood discusses his first solo album The Divine Abstract

In 1972 a rejected demo finds its way into the hands of a young maverick label boss. The eventual result is a commercial and cultural phenomenon: Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells

Jethro Tull founder and frontman Ian Anderson picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the Tull song he considers "a stinker" and "a real turkey"

Rising stars Kira Mac are doing it by themselves, but will give credit where's credit's due: "I don’t care what anyone says - Chad Kroeger's got the magic"

Prog pays tribute to the late Big Big Train frontman who touched so many lives, through his music and his warm and engaging personality