Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips announce new live album
Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips will release Sherinian/Phillips Live in August
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Beam me up again! William Shatner revisits his prog all-stars album Ponder The Mystery, starring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman and others
Star Trek icon releases new version of title track with Steve Vai in full flow, mixed by Jurgen Engler
This rare Sparks footage from 1976 shows they've always been an unmatched live band - the rest of the world just needed to catch up
Sparks were actually going through a sticky patch when this rare 1976 concert footage was taken, but their brilliance still shone through
"We show no mercy!” 10cc announce the Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour
Well, what else do you call the 2024 follow-up to last year’s Ultimate Greatest Hits tour?
Watch Adrian Belew and Les Claypool tackle King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet live
Former Crimson musician Adrian Belew jams with Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade on their Summer Of Green tour package
Yes guitarist Steve Howe on a potential reunion with Jon Anderson: “I love Jon – but the only terms I work on is that I’m happy”
Yes’ Steve Howe addresses ex-bandmates, potential reunions and that turbulent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame appearance in the brand new issue of Classic Rock
How to rewatch Glastonbury 2023: The festival might be over but you can still relive all the action
If you missed any of the Glastonbury 2023 action, you can still catch up with dozens of performances until July 25 - here’s how you can watch from anywhere
Listen to The Anchoress' elegant version of Manic Street Preachers' This Is Yesterday
Fresh from her Glastonbury performance, The Anchoress teams up with Knifeworld's Charlie Cawood for Manics cover
Muse announce new arena shows in UK and Ireland
Muse announce September/October arena gigs in support of last year's Will Of The People album
Toyah and Robert Fripp perform Cream cover, cover themselves in cream
Things get extremely literal in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen, with a cream-enhanced cover of Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love
Darryl Way and Steve Hogarth pair up for new Morpheus video
Darryl Way released his most recent concept album The Rock Artist's Progress last year
Star-studded John Wetton memorial concert announced
Exclusive John Wetton Memorial Concert will take place at Trading Boundaries in August
Watch newly restored 4K footage of Rush on their 1976 2112 tour
Rare live footage from Rush's 2112 tour has surfaced online
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“Led Zeppelin write weak, unimaginative songs”: 10 original reviews of classic albums that got it completely wrong
Everyone from Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses had their haters
Radiohead's OK Computer: The last rock album that truly mattered
Inside Radiohead's OK Computer: darkness, isolation, paranoia, and songs so far ahead of their time that the world is still catching up
“Led Zeppelin’s fee went from £500 to £20,000 in a year!” Collapsing stages and no toilets: The 1969 Bath Blues Festival that inspired Glastonbury
They sold 7000 tickets – and 30,000 people turned up. How The Bath Blues Festivals became the inspiration to a young Michael Eavis and Glastonbury.
"Like Starcastle fronted by Bruce Dickinson!" - how Metal Church man went prog with Presto Ballet
Metal Church guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof reveals a much proggier side to his musical character with US prog outfit Presto Ballet
“He’s making different chords underneath all this music… and singing a middle harmony at the same time!” Joe Bonamassa’s love for Chris Squire
A blues guitar icon calling a prog bassist his hero? It’s unusual, but it’s not unheard of
How The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium brilliantly rewired prog rock for a new generation of punk rock kids
Released in June 2003, The Mars Volta's debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium is a prog-punk masterpiece
“When they make documentaries about the 70s, they talk about glam and prog rock. 10cc weren't either so we don’t get a mention..." The rise and fall of 10cc's original line-up
Four great musicians and songwriters, known for their pioneering studio techniques, 10cc ruled the charts and straddled a line between prog and pop. But was their genre-defying talent their undoing?
Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Neal Morse, Haken and more
Cool new prog music from NMB, Edward Reekers, Frankie & The Witch Fingers and more...
The Todd Rundgren albums you should definitely own
Songwriter, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist… Todd Rundgren's is a diverse and distinguished catalogue from a restless and progressive artist
By the time you read this, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will probably have released another album
With 24 albums in just over a decade – and five last year alone – are King Gizzard challenging their fans to process too much music? "I think we are primarily challenging ourselves,” says Stu MacKenzie
Why I ❤️ Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, by Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt
"Some of the most beautiful songs I’d ever heard": Mikael Åkerfeldt, guitarist/vocalist with Swedish proggers Opeth, on one of his biggest influences
“I thought: 'There’s got to be other people that are into this style of stuff. Not everybody has got a spiky haircut!’” Marillion and the making of Script For A Jester's Tear
The 70s are drawing to a close, punk is raging, and five young men from an Aylesbury band called Marillion are plotting the unlikeliest of things: how to take prog back into the charts...
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Coheed And Cambria's London show proves once again that they're the world's coolest prog band
The New Yorkers show it's still hip to be square as they enrapture a packed-out Forum
Gojira and Mastodon just levelled a Florida Ampitheater to remind everyone why they're two of metal's greatest bands
One of the most exciting metal tours of 2023 has lived up to the hype and then some
Goat: mysterious masked magick mavens bewitch Brixton with filthily funky ritual
Pancultural psych-fusion Swedes serve up heady witch's brew at UK tour climax
Jethro Tull - RökFlöte: "resounds with personality, meaning and drama."
Not yet ratedIan Anderson draws on Viking mythology on the follow-up to The Zealot Gene – but no one’s living in the past on Tull’s 23rd album.
Periphery V - Djent Is Not A Genre: US progressive metallers prove why they're miles ahead of their peers
Tech metal pioneers Periphery continue to push boundaries with their seventh album V: Djent Is Not A Genre
Kitten Pyramid - Kiddo: "an adventure from start to finish"
Not yet ratedBuoyant but anti-carnivorous third album for Burton-based art-pop proggers.
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Somapolis: "Made with obvious love and drive..."
Not yet ratedSixth from enduringly eloquent art-rock artisans
Devin Townsend - Lightwork: "Glorious!"
Not yet ratedCanadian maverick swaps heavy riffs for synths and strings
Queensryche - Digital Noise Alliance: "They remain in rude health"
Not yet ratedSweet 16 for prog metal pioneers.
A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests: "One of the UK’s most compelling young solo acts."
Not yet ratedAtmospheric post-rocker ups the grandeur and maintains the sorrow.
