New book sheds further light on the rise of Marillion, Pallas, Twelfth Night, and the 80s prog revival
A Playground Of Broken Hearts charts the prog revival from 1983 to 1989 and is published in July
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"He was the backbone of Soft Machine." Founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge dead at 81
Soft Machine's longest-serving member Mike Ratledge, who also worked with Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers, has died after a short illness
Order your limited edition Steven Wilson x Prog bundle – featuring a coloured vinyl version of The Overview and a signed art print!
There are only 250 Steven Wilson x Prog bundles available, so get yours now!
Hawkwind announce new studio album There Is No Space For Us
UK space rock legends Hawkwind will release their 37th studio album There Is No Space For Us and tour in support of the new album in April
Solstice storm the Prog Magazine Readers' Poll and announce new studio album Clann
UK prog rockers Solstice will release their eighth studio album Clann in April
Arctangent 2025 announces headliners Wardruna and Tesseract, adds over 50 bands to the lineup
Arctangent Festival 2025 is stacking up their bill with over 50 names, including Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, Slift, Green Lung and many more
Rick Wakeman announces The Return Of The Caped Crusader Pt 2 tour dates for October
Wakeman solo albums Six Wives Of Henry VIII and King Arthur to get airing on upcoming October tour
Andy Summers and Robert Fripp's Complete Works 1981-1984 to be released in March
The four-disc Andy Summers and Robert Fripp's Complete Works 1981-1984 features previously unreleased material and new mixes
"This song was love at first harpsichord!" Black Country, New Road return with video for brand new single Besties
Black Country, New Road will release their new album Forever Howlong in April
Roger Waters will release The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux box set in March
Roger Waters' The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux Super Deluxe box set features the original album on gold vinyl, a live version and more
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks release stunning version of Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People
Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People comes from the upcoming live album Live - Perpetual Change
Twelve-disc Wishbone Ash Live At The BBC box set out in March
Wishbone Ash – At The BBC 1970-1988 features eleven discs of BBC sessions and a live DVD of Old Grey Whistle Test performances
Toto songs are played three million times a day on Spotify and Steve Lukather seems pretty happy
Steve Lukather on the band's younger audience, the continued success of Africa, and that weird art installation in the Namibian desert
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Mercury Rev are a new animal after a humbling experience
Latest line-up’s new album Born Horses is many things, but Jonathan Donahue says it’s not pop-friendly, radio-friendly, pristine, clear, easier to mix… and it’s not de-seagulled either
Marillion were facing oblivion. Then they made This Strange Engine and found a way forward
They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong
“It’s their first time listening to prog, and they like it!” Ross Valory on his solo album
Bassist recalls the AOR giants’ progressive early years and explains why he thinks the genre is getting stronger all the time
Even though Kate Bush refused to produce Gavin Friday’s Virgin Prunes, he still loves her
Composer, actor and painter explains why her work is high art in the style of influential writer James Joyce
"I said, “We’re a band, we want to make a record.” He said, “Oi dunno much about records… If you wanted a cowshed, I could probably ’elp yer!” Pendragon's Nick Barrett looks back on their 40-plus year career...
In 2020, when Pendragon released their eleventh studio album Love Over Fear, we grilled mainman Nick Barrett in The Prog Interview
Tori Amos’ From The Choirgirl Hotel is prog in its truest sense
1996 album opens with arguably her proggiest song then delivers figurative lyrics, rhythmic shifts and style change-ups
Tears For Fears are one of the most influential bands ever. Here's ten reasons why.
If you’ve been wondering what connects Disturbed, Kanye West, The 1975, David Guetta, James Corden, Nas, New Found Glory, Foals, Dizzee Rascal and more then this is the list for you. If you haven’t, you might as well read it anyway.
Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from McStine & Minnemann, Gleb Kolyadin, Marko Hietala and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog to enjoy from Phase Transition, you, infinite, Pale Epiphany and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
"Behind those dark glasses and unsmiling visage, he presented an inscrutable presence." Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge remembered
Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former Soft Machine founder and keyboard player Mike Ratledge, who sadly died after a short illness, aged 81
When William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator in 1966
By the time Barclay James Harvest upset The Moody Blues, they already had form
They didn’t mingle with fellow prog pioneers and didn’t clamour for stardom – but co-founder Les Holroyd argues they were highly successful where it mattered
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"A towering two-hour concept work on a Norse saga scale." Motorpsycho and Ståle Storlokken's The Death Defying Unicorn is a "battered, barnacled beauty."
Norwegian prog trio hook up with Elephant9 keyboard player for epic saga
Marko Hietala blends love and instinct on Roses From The Deep, featuring Tarja reunion
Reunion with Tarja Turunen is a high point on his second solo album, which mixes prog with vintage metal to impressive effect
Dream Theater’s Parasomnia largely lives up to the hype
It’s back to the future as Mike Portnoy returns to the prog metal giants – bringing a little of their old magic with him
“They let go of a degree of preciousness”: Riverside are charged up on Live ID
The Polish prog metallers’ fourth live album contains maximum simpatico between band and audience
“Sometimes his lyrics are so indistinct they may as well be wordless. Sometimes they are actually wordless”: Jonathan Hultén’s Eyes Of The Living Night is brilliant and beautiful
After channeling Nick Drake and Bert Jansch on his first record, the Swedish guitarist’s pivot from extreme metal brings him to a Kate Bush-like world
“These pieces aren’t so much produced as dramatised”: Soft Machine’s Softs vinyl remaster
John Etheridge’s arrival adds a harder, defined edge to the band’s 1976 album
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s An Evening Of Yes Music Plus returns in 4-disc set
Sound and vision elements of 1989 pay-per-ew show brought together in clamshell
“An airier touch on a record of extraordinary scope”: Wardruna’s Birna
Dark Nordic folk collective’s sixth album takes the listener into hibernation and on to the new spring
Matt Berry’s Heard Noises adheres to his oblique vision
His 13th album, self-performed except for drums, is another example of his fathomless imagination and instrumental prowess
Mogwai’s The Bad Fire is reassuringly blurry
11th album, which follows No.1 hit As The Love Continues, is a confident and competent helping of their curiously uplifting dourness
“As smart and surprising as Cardiacs themselves”: A Big Book And A Band And A Whole World Window
The idiosyncratic English art-rockers’ history is detailed in a pleasingly DIY limited-edition chunky read.
