Features

Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

By Jerry Ewing published 20 March 26

Great new prog you must hear from Ebony Buckle, Grice, Amulets and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

My chaotic life as Phil Lynott's girlfriend

By Mick Wall published 20 March 26

Gale Claydon met Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott when she was 18 years old and spent the next five years with him, through thick and thin

The story of Iggy & The Stooges' ferocious classic Search And Destroy

By Ian Fortnam published 20 March 26

The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar

Dr. Who actor Peter Capaldi on the music that has soundtracked his life

By Dave Everley published 20 March 26

Singer/guitarist/actor/Time Lord Peter Capaldi picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

Leo Lyons: turned down by Jimi Hendrix, saved by Pete Townshend, butted heads with Lemmy

By Henry Yates published 20 March 26

As Ten Years After release an expanded version of their Ssssh album, founding bassist Leo Lyons recalls a live packed with rock'n'roll flashpoints

The story behind the Phil Collins hit that Genesis wish they'd recorded

By Paul Brannigan published 19 March 26

"There’s always a dispute about this"

Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park and why he might stop growling again

By Matt Mills published 19 March 26

We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus

“A triumph in prog, and a masterclass in storytelling”: Members of Dream Theater, Nightwish, Gentle Giant and others on the power of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung

By Malcolm Dome published 19 March 26

The 1971 masterpiece is hailed by Jordan Rudess, Troy Donockley, Derek Shulman, Arthur Brown, Roine Stolt, Sonja Kristina and more

The story of Limp Bizkit's Nookie - and why it's a more poignant song than you might think

By Stephen Hill published 19 March 26

What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

Can you imagine Pink Floyd’s The Wall without Comfortably Numb? Roger Waters once did

By Daryl Easlea published 19 March 26

The band’s signature track was the source of great disagreement as their massive 1979 concept album came together. Its absence could have robbed them of one of their greatest onstage moments