John Mitchell announces An Evening With European dates
John Mitchell's plays 'An Evening With - Songs And Stories Live And Acoustic 2023' live dates in November and December
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Rainburn announce new studio album Vignettes
Indian prog rockers Rainburn will release their second album Vignettes in November
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard to headline Wide Awake 2024
Melbourne pysch-rock kings King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard will play Brockwell Park on May 25
Dave Kerzner teases new solo abum with six track EP release
US prog rocker Dave Kerzner will release new solo album Heart Land Mines Vol. 1 in October
Jo Quail and Jon Gomm announce joint UK tour for December and January
Cellist Jo Quail and acoustic guitarist Jon Gomm take their Parallel Worlds tour in the road late this year
Roger Waters slams documentary that paints him as an antisemite
Former Pink Floyd man says 'The Dark Side of Roger Waters' is a "flimsy, unapologetic piece of propaganda"
Nektar founding member and drummer Ron Howden dead at 78
Nektar bandmate and bassist Derek 'Mo' Moore confirms Howden's passing on social media
Peter Gabriel releases video for new single, "a love song" called This Is Home
Peter Gabriel is expected to release his long-awaited latest studio album i/o later this year
Jethro Tull release alternative mixes of latest album RökFlöte
Bruce Soord's alternative mixes of Jethro Tull's RökFlöte are now available on all streaming services
Porcupine Tree team up with Teenage Cancer Trust for limited edition signed soundwave Harridan print
Proceeds from the Soundwaves Art Foundation limited edition signed prints will support young people with cancer
Mostly Autumn to release live album recorded at Abbey Road
UK proggers Mostly Autumn will release Studio 2 in October and your in November and December
Watch Francis Dunnery's It Bites perform live version of Old Man And The Angel
Francis Dunnery's It Bites will release Live From The Black Country, on Blu-ray and CD in October
William Orbit to perform with Hawkwind at the Royal Albert Hall
Hawkwind will release a 50th anniversary box set of Space Ritual in September
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“Signature absurdities, from a local criminal to sentient grease, neglect all pop sensibilities”: The prog nature of Everything Everything’s Re-Animator
Manchester band’s 2020 album demonstrated they’d never really lived inside the indie rock community
“We’d been working on it for two weeks… Mike Oldfield had wiped it. There was no undo button. I was in shock. It was the only time it’s ever happened to me in 40 years”: Trevor Horn’s lows and highs
Known as ‘the man who invented the 80s,’ producer and musician always enjoyed sneaking prog into the mainstream
“Once you understand them, and have felt them in your heart, you will struggle to find anything that will ever come so close”: Mike Vennart introduces The Cardiacs
Biffy Clyro and Empire State Bastard guitarist Mike Vennart lists his top 10 songs from the late Tim Smith’s catalogue
“A lot of the time, ‘prog’ conjures up images of the yesteryear. It’s interesting that prog metal has become bigger than prog”: Godsticks understand why they have to be classified
Bandleader Darran Charles on the highs and lows of making sixth studio album This Is What A Winner Looks Like
"They were very avant-garde and I thought I was too, and it was all going to be very beautiful, man": how Pink Floyd learned to fly
In 1965 the musicians who'd become Pink Floyd were searching for a sound: then they ditched their R&B repertoire for much freakier fare
“In the context of Matt’s cancer, and stuff going on in the wider world, why are we worrying about if anybody’s going to like this?” The Fierce And The Dead refocused for News From The Invisible World
Their “angry but hopeful” fourth album is their first to feature vocals, and it’s already given them a new lease of life
"You can't dance or clap along to it. When we play it live, you can always see the audience getting caught out": Turn It On Again by Genesis even confused Peter Gabriel
Deceptively straightforward but with a rhythmic banana skin, Turn It On Again began Genesis's transformation from major cult band to stadium-filling hit-makers
"Christmas is overlaid onto the winter solstice, and that nods towards our pagan past.” Why Christmas is prog's favourite time of the year...
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… And out roll the usual suspects trying to crack the festive Top 40. Still, it isn’t all about Slade, The Snowman and Sir Cliff. Prog rockers seem to enjoy Christmas more than most...
The best new prog sounds from Steven Wilson, Trevor Rabin, Kyros and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
The week's best new prog music to check out from Earthside, Manzanera and Mackay, Unprocessed and more...
"We're like The Village People of rock. We’ve got the metal guy, the prog guy, the pop guy, the jazz‑funk guy and the country guy": How Flying Colors made Second Nature
Take five prog and rock musos, give them complete creative freedom and the result is US supergroup Flying Colors’ second full-length, the aptly named Second Nature.
"It’s more exciting to be influenced by what could be done rather than what is being done. That’s a progressive outlook.” Jesus Jones' Iain Baker on why he rates Bill Nelson so highly
Jesus Jones keyboard player Iain Baker on why the Be Bop Deluxe man is his prog hero
"Being right there with them at the Albert Hall will be pure joy, and I plan to make some huge slabs of Orbit noise when the moments are right": William Orbit's love letter to Hawkwind
Super producer William Orbit will be joining Hawkwind onstage at the Royal Albert Hall this evening as they celebrate half a century of space rituals and odysseys
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Muse's Manchester AO Arena show proves that whatever route their music may take, they'll always be one of the greatest live bands in all of music
Muse bring the hits, charm and a ton of showmanship to Manchester
“Imbued with otherness… steeped in drama and grandeur, but it feels tethered to a very specific point on the earth”: Haunt The Woods’ Ubiquity
Quartet’s second album shapeshifts among its folk, prog and alt rock influences
“Hearing each concert side by side demonstrates just how well rehearsed the presentation was, while allowing for individual improvisation”: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 50th Anniversary Box Set
Complete with the previously unreleased third concert recording, 11-disc collection goes beyond the wildest dreams of even the most avid Hawkfan
“There was too much isolation, loneliness and access to cheap booze and drugs”: Kevin Ayers’ Falling Up reissue
Despite its background, Soft Machine man’s 1988 comeback makes a refreshing return
“Unsettling - not exactly made for repeat listening but more occasional contemplation, like a book of poetry”: David Sylvian’s Samadhisound 2003-2014: Do You Know Me Now?
Box set illustrates an apparent disappearing act over a decade
“Steven Wilson injects new life and verve”: Jethro Tull’s The Broadsword And The Beast 40th Anniversary Monster Edition
Ian Anderson’s biggest and boldest reissue to date
“That sense of struggle permeates every moment”: TesseracT’s War Of Being
Their heaviest album to date sees vocalist Daniel Tompkins revealing a new secret weapon
“An enlightening, vital listen, underlining the importance of an institution treated as a political football”: Public Service Broadcasting’s The New Noise (Live)
J Willgoose Esq, with assistance from the BBC Concert Orchestra and Michael Sheen, deliver a powerful case in support of the UK’s real-life public service broadcaster
“It isn’t the edgiest, most dramatic or experimental album released this year, but that’s really not the point”: Downes Braide Association’s Celestial Songs
Geoff Downes and Chris Braide return to their classic sound with fifth LP, which still carries the occasional nod to prog
"Purists who hate anything invented after the Mellotron might not like it. But if prog is to have a future beyond legacy acts, it needs fresh ideas": Voyager's Fearless In Love is the most energised music of their career
Voyager's Fearless In Love: They may not have won Eurovision, but the Australian keytar kings (and queen) have delivered the feelgood sound of the summer
Assault accusations, tax evasion charges: All this sits uncomfortably with our view of Sigur Rós as magic moon-faced elves. You can understand why they'd want to escape from reality
Sigur Rós's Átta: an album that quivers along a thin line between boring and beautiful
