Grant Moon
A music journalist for over 20 years, Grant writes regularly for titles including Prog, Classic Rock and Total Guitar, and his CV also includes stints as a radio producer/presenter and podcast host. His first book, 'Big Big Train - Between The Lines', is out now through Kingmaker Publishing.
Latest articles by Grant Moon

By Grant Moon Published
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

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

By Grant Moon Published
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”

By Grant Moon Published
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!’”

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

By Grant Moon Published
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

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

By Grant Moon Published
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

By Grant Moon Published
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

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

By Dave Everley Published
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.

By Classic Rock Published
Yes’ Steve Howe addresses ex-bandmates, potential reunions and that turbulent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame appearance in the brand new issue of Classic Rock

By Grant Moon Published
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

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

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

By Grant Moon Published
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

By Grant Moon Published
Vai/Gash is an unearthed, back-to-basics collection from guitar star Steve Vai and his late friend, singer Johnny ‘Gash’ Sombrotto

By Grant Moon Published
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"

By Grant Moon Published
Mike Portnoy confirms the supergroup’s new live record marks 'the end of an era'

By Grant Moon Published
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"

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

By Grant Moon Published
The second album from the Swedish prog collective following a five year hiatus in the 00s found them in continuing to blossom

By Grant Moon Published
Door One is a sophisticated, beautifully realised posthumous solo album from Big Big Train frontman David Longdon
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