How Mike Oldfield made Crises and ended up with a Top Five hit single! By Mike Barnes Mike Oldfield's eighth studio album, 1983's Crises, saw him riding a wave of new popularity in the 80s
From Tubular Bells to Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom: Henry Cow's John Greaves comes clean By Mike Barnes He's played with Henry Cow, National Health and Mike Oldfield, but what makes John Greaves tick? We catch up with the musician to explore his incredible career so far and find out more about his solo albums
The story of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery By Mike Barnes How prog supergroup Emerson Lake & Palmer's created their epic 1974 album Brain Salad Surgery
Nick D'Virgilio - Invisible Review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Big Big Train man serves up an unusual kind of “drummer record”.
12 of the best books about prog for you to read By Grant Moon, Sid Smith, David West, Mike Barnes, Natasha Scharf, Rachel Mann, Joe Banks, Chris Roberts Want to catch up on some reading? Here are 12 of the best books about progressive music
How prog are Penguin Cafe Orchestra? By Mike Barnes The musical collective praised randomness, caught the attention of Brian Eno and were self-described as “modern semi-acoustic chamber music”, amongst other things. But just how prog were they?
Penguin Café Orchestra - Union Cafe album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated The group’s final album from 1994, released for the first time on vinyl
Sendelica - Cromlech Chronicles II album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Two evocative pieces of improvised inner space exploration
Andrew Heath - Soundings album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated A seductive ambient blend of instruments and field recordings
Dhani Harrison: "People have a preconceived idea of the music I’m going to make" By Mike Barnes Dhani Harrison may have a famous father, but the multi-instrumentalist wants to be respected as a musician and composer in his own right with his solo debut IN///PARALLEL
The Left Outsides - There Is A Place album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Eerie and evocative new songs and reworked material inspired by forests
Tom Rogerson With Brian Eno - Finding Shore album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Suffolk brethren Rogerson on piano, Eno on sonic manipulations
Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated The Solaris/Fortitude soundtrack composer’s fifth, recorded with Steve Albini
Brooklyn Raga Massive - Terry Riley In C album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated The minimalist masterpiece tackled by Indian classical musicians
Sonja Kristina - Anthology album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated From Hair to eternity: a double CD overview for Curved Air’s frontwoman
Rodney Slater’s Parrots - Parrotopia! album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated A musical journey through a psittacine Arcadia with the former Bonzo sax man
Astralasia - Oceania album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Two-CD/blue vinyl set from Astralasia, the wizards of psychedelic electronica
Keith Emerson: A Musical Celebration at Birmingham Symphony Hall - live review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated The great and the good gather to celebrate Keith Emerson's music
Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Scottish band Mogwai’s ninth, recorded with Flaming Lips man Dave Fridmann
Judy Dyble & Andy Lewis - Summer Dancing album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated The original Fairport Convention singer’s return to psychedelia, 21st century style
Darryl Way - Underworld album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Former Curved Air man Darryl Way’s Orpheus myth opera. Contains sex drugs and rock’n’roll
Prog pioneers: Meet five women pushing the boundaries of modern prog By Mike Barnes The Anchoress, Jane Weaver, Cate Le Bon, Susanna and Anna von Hausswolff are all fiercely independent, bold and idiosyncratic, and real pioneers in today's progressive music world
Kraftwerk - 3-D The Catalogue album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated The Men Machines live sets collected over myriad formats
The Mothers Earth Experiment - The Mothers Earth Experiment album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated West Midlands six-piece The Mothers Earth Experiment invoke Island pink-label mischief
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Vula album review By Mike Barnes Not yet rated Fourth album in 10 years by the dazzling Berlin-based 18-piece Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra
