From gigs in remote indigenous communities to an actual political career for frontman Peter Garrett, few have mixed politics and music as effectively as Australia's Midnight Oil

1987 saw classic album releases from Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, U2, Whitesnake, Anthrax, Heart, Motley Crue, Marillion, The Replacements and more...

Picking out Gregg Allman's 10 finest moments

Uddipan Sarmah, frontman of the world’s only Hindi post-rock band, talks about gig challenges

Refusing to compromise has paid off for the Grammy-nominated country/rock siblings

From Wire’s seminal Pink Flag debut through to the current crop of sonic pioneers, post-rock has evolved over the last four decades to become something surprising: a key part of prog music

He pioneered techno, is a Hollywood soundtrack supremo and can always be found on the cutting edge of modern music. We ask: how prog is Ryuichi Sakamoto?

Nordic proggers use their love of “noisy pop and weird prog” to create a compelling sound

Forget Centrefold – the J. Geils Band were America’s original ass-shaking, rock’n’roll party starters. And they had the Hollywood marriages and the celebrity fans to prove it

At the the Bunnymen's peak, Ian McCulloch wrote a lyric evoking vintage Scott Walker and posing the question of destiny vs. free will. It made a good film theme too

They’ve experienced dark times, loss and difficult changes, but conquering the negatives has helped Royal Thunder to find themselves, and inspired a powerful, uplifting new album

Psych proggers with an eerie edge take their cues from horror soundtracks and wigged-out folk