Latest Prog News
Godspeed You! Black Emperor pull their entire discography from all major streaming services
Influential post-rock trailblazers Godspeed You! Black Emperor become the latest band to pull their music from Spotify, and they're not stopping there
Watch Jello Biafra join King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard for cover of Dead Kennedys classic Police Truck
Dead Kennedys man and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard perform lively cover of iconic punk rock track Police Truck
Dream Theater hook up with Z2 Comics for special Parasomnia graphic novel release
Reunited US prog metallers Dream Theater have released their new Parasomnia: The Graphic Album in various formats
"Intense. But amazing!" Leprous have covered a-ha's Take On Me. And it's brilliant!
Norwegian prog metallers Leprous cover a-ha's 1985 hit Take On Me as part of Musora's Covers On The Spot challenge
Bill Burr on how teaming up with Primus and Tool members helps his stand-up
Comedian Bill Burr reflects on performing Too Many Puppies with Primus in Los Angeles
Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and Chris Maitland reunite for new album
Jon Durant, Colin Edwin and Chris Maitland will release The Baldock Transmission in November
Bioscope announce in store Q+A and signing sessions for August
Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning will release their debut Bioscope album, Gentō, in August
Latest Prog Features
“Was air-drumming even a thing before Tom Sawyer?”: Neil Peart’s greatest moments with Rush
It wasn’t easy, but we’ve boiled the professor of prog’s most powerful percussive performances down to 10 key tracks
Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support. He just wishes others liked him too
Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds
Gentle Giant’s only live album, Playing The Fool, and its reinvention after five decades
Presenting their concert experience on record was a steep challenge in 1976. Now they’ve reconstructed the tapes to make it feel like you’re there, complete with heckling
Tool’s Danny Carey managed to distract Mick Pointer from Rush
The Marillion and Arena co-founder explains how the American prog metal band astonished him with a track from 1996 album Ænima
Great new prog you must hear from Arjen Lucassen, IO Earth Amorphis, Auri and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Cool new proggy sounds from Sometime In February, Royal Sorrow, Connor Kaminski and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Arthur Brown: “Going by any reasonable judgement system, I’d have to admit to being mad”
The relentless innovator explains why he can never stay in a creative space for long, claims credit for the Paris student riots of the 60s, and recalls giving up music entirely rather than going commercial
Peter Baumann didn’t think Tangerine Dream were prog – just weird
With new solo album Nightfall and a new edition of Phaedra both on sale, the synth maestro says limited ability, cutting-edge gear and raw luck led to success in the 70s, and regrets running out of time to reunite with Edgar Froese
Latest Prog Reviews
“Brought back to life with tremendous care”: Cardiacs’ On Land And In The Sea
The late, great Tim Smith’s prog-punk magnum opus returns on vinyl for the first time since 2007
"If the bleak world is too much, hole up here”: Auri’s III – Candles & Beginnings
Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley and Johanna Kurkela offer beautiful distractions in a collaborative set of soundscapes
“A worthy reminder of Jon Hiseman’s considerable talents”: Colosseum’s Live 05
Selection from three European shows pays tribute to late bandleader the way he would have wanted – live and loud
Cluster’s noise terrorism revisited on Cluster II
Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius’ pioneering electronic work receives a 21st-century sheen
Be-Bop Deluxe’s finest hours revisited again – but the journey is always rewarding
Bill Nelson’s finest hours are revisited again in clamshell set, but the journey is always rewarding
Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past defies lazy assumptions of what prog was in the 70s
Reissue series revives the 1972 high-class hodgepodge in a generous, never perfunctory style
