Latest Prog News
Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour
Asia will play a one-off show at The Corn Exchange, Ross-On-Wye, in January to raise money for Mike Peters' Love Hope Strength Foundation
TesseracT share first new music from upcoming live release RADAR with video for the emotive Tender
TessearcT will release concert film RADAR and soundtrack album , RADAR O.S.T. in December
Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026
UK prog rockers Marillion. will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25
Arctangent – the UK’s best prog metal festival – announces first bands for 2026, including Igorrr, Svalbard, Alcest, Agent Fresco, Chat Pile
The most forward-thinking bands in prog, post-rock and metal will once again gather at Bristol’s Fernhill Farm next August
The Pineapple Thief, Animals As Leaders, Protest The Hero and Ihlo all announced for next year's Radar Festival
Next year's Radar Festival takes place at Manchester's O2 Victoria Warehouse from July 31 to August 2
Better Strangers, featuring Nic "son of Phil" Collins, are back and even proggier
Better Strangers, with Nic Collins, son of Phil, have gone full prog. Watch the video evidence here…
A new Tony Banks biography is to be published in February
Tony Banks: Man Of Spells – The Magician Of Genesis has been written by Genesis biographer Mario Giammetti and will be published in February
Latest Prog Features
Great new proggy sounds you must hear from Another Realm, Unprocessed, The Owl Service and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Cool new prog from ĠENN, The Mon, Maha Sohona and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate
New concept LP begins with the true story of a baggage handler who stole a plane and killed himself, and goes on to celebrate a fake cult based on a toy ball
Debate: What’s the greatest concept album of all time?
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is incredible, but were Genesis outdone by Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion or even The Kinks?
How The Nice offended Leonard Bernstein and the US Embassy
The story of the song that crystallised the burgeoning prog-rock movement and turned The Nice into one of the most controversial bands of the day
Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away
Yes icon on guesting with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, his 1960s session career, and never listening to what he recorded for Lou Reed
The former metalcore brats who astonished everyone with a prog concept album
Once talked up as “the next Metallica,” this American group rejected easy options and used their developing skills to craft a progressive metal record that arrived without warning in 2016
Tragedy lies behind most of Mastodon’s music. Hushed And Grim was no different
In 2021 the band released their first double-length record, which would prove to be their last with Brent Hinds. They hoped it would be their last to be inspired by personal catastrophes
The prog singer who didn’t want to sing, and the change of approach that gave his band a second lease of life
Formed in the musical turmoil of the late 80s, the American group made music based on a theory of melody. But with the help of Rush collaborators they’ve tweaked their approach for the third album of their next generation
Latest Prog Reviews
Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun concludes eight-album circle-of-life story
Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)
Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point
Norwegian art-rockers deliver tightly-focused songs after a Hollywood clash forced them to reboot their 12th album
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s One Size Fits All, five decades on
The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is vigorous
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds – the Deluxe and Ultimate editions
Sumptuous box sets that gather all available versions plus a wealth of bonus material – not all of which will be welcomed
“An opportunity to reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard
Undervalued 1970 albums, created during period of upheaval, are presented for reinterpretation with help from Steven Wilson and David Singleton
The Utopia Strong’s Doperider is an epic psychonaut’s journey
Unlikely supergroup’s third album moves away from Krautrock to explore new territories
