The story of Richard Wright's last ever show
Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright made a surprise appearance with David Gilmour at a London Cinema in 2007. A year later, he was gone
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The 10 best Australian prog metal bands
From Alchemist to The Butterfly Effect - 10 progressive metal bands from Down Under creating a storm across the world
In and out of Traffic: the fantastic career of Jim Capaldi
Jim Capaldi made wonderful music with Traffic, and on a run of seriously star-studded solo albums
King Crimson in Pompeii, by comedian Al Murray
Comedian and Prog Awards host Al Murray travelled to Rome to catch King Crimson live in Pompeii in 2018
Al Stewart: The Prog Interview
The folk progger reflects on a career that started with guitar lessons from Robert Fripp and has seen him work with the likes of Rick Wakeman, Alan Parsons and more...
Four into three: How Genesis lost a guitarist but set off on a bold new path
After Peter Gabriel left Genesis in 1975, the band responded with the then biggest-selling album of their career. When Steve Hackett left two years later, could they survive this second loss?
Styx interview: 'We’ve had to circle the wagons many times as a band'
Over 50 years Styx have cruised through heavenly highs and weathered hellish lows. With latest album Crash Of The Crown, they continue to enjoy their latest creative and popular high
Where to start with... Enslaved
Get to grips with Norway's Viking metal visionaries Enslaved
The strange story of Nik Turner and a life lived on Planet Freakout
From the sci-fi sonics of Hawkwind to playing his flute on the Great Pyramid Of Giza, Nik Turner has always tripped through musical boundaries
10 pomp rock albums you should definitely own
Pomp Rock was the unruly child disowned by prog and orphaned by AOR. Its melodies were a hit at radio and filled arenas across America, and here's 10 albums to get you started
Kansas's Phil Ehart on the realities of COVID for the live music scene
Kansas drummer Phil Ehart explains the financial realities of COVID and socially distanced shows.
Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters: The story of Robert Calvert’s comical concept album
Robert Calvert’s manic imagination was fuelled by bipolar disorder, but it helped him conceive one of the 70’s most outlandish concept albums
How Tears For Fears added prog to pop and ruled the 80s
A shared love of Blue Oyster Cult, Genesis and King Crimson saw Tears For Fears become much more than an 80s pop band
The best books about music ever written
UPDATED Delve into the history of the world’s biggest artists, explore the many genres of rock and take a closer look at the pivotal moments that shaped our favourite sounds with our guide to the best books about music
Gong, Stonehenge and hemp packaging: we get inside the mind of Ozric Tentacles' Ed Wynne
Ed Wynne has released 15 albums with Ozric Tentacles, has collaborated with Amon Düül UK and Eat Static and, in 2019, issued his first ever solo record, Shimmer Into Nature. Prog catches up with him to reminisce about playing at Stonehenge, opening for Gong and why he decided it was time to make another Ozrics album
Inside Wobbler's universe: monsters, blizzards and analogue keys
As Wobbler emerge from the murky depths of the human psyche with Dwellers Of The Deep, the Norwegian band talk to Prog about not searching for perfection, why we’re all both gods and monsters, and mastering the art of knowing when to stop
Robert Calvert: the genius who played with fire
He was the maverick genius who conceived the Space Ritual and embodied Hawkwind’s progressive spirit in the 70s. But Robert Calvert played with fire for the sake of his art, as we discover in this edited extract from Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground.
What really happened when Rick Wakeman met The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Burnel?
One is a prog rock titan who saw the writing on the wall in 1977. The other is a punk hard man who spent the year brawling with other bands. So when Rick Wakeman and The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Burnel got together in 2012, you’d expect bickering, bloodshed and epic keyboard solos, right? Wrong.
How Andy Bell swapped shoegaze and indie for prog, Krautrock and psych
The Ride and former Oasis man explains how he came to play with Pink Floyd and explore the world of progressive music
