Gary Kemp: "Close To The Edge and Foxtrot were watershed moments."
Gary Kemp charts his musical journey from pre-Spandau Ballet days right through to Saucerful Of Secrets, and tells us prog's been there all along...
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The Paradox Twin talks us through new album Silence From Signals
UK prog rock quintet The Paradox Twin will release second album Silence From Signals in October
31 things only Rush fanatics know about their album sleeves
Easter Eggs, in-jokes, naked butts and Dennis Hopper – here’s what we learned from Hugh Syme's lavish coffee table book The Art Of Rush: Serving A Life Sentence
The Kate Bush albums you should definitely own
Kate Bush is probably the most important and influential British female singer-writer-musician ever - and these are her best albums
10 obscure but brilliant Japanese psych rock bands - including the original Ghost
Norway's psych rockers Kanaan pick the 10 most dazzling bands from Japan's psychedelic underground
Why I ❤️ Kate Bush’s The Kick Inside, by Cronos from Venom
Venom founder Cronos celebrates the unique appeal of The Kick Inside, and tells the story of the time Kate Bush kissed him
What happened when David Gilmour joined forces with The Orb
The inside story of how Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour ended up making an album with The Orb
20 mostly brilliant but also ridiculous progressive rock albums
Made-up languages? The apocalypse? The guilt of lighthouse keepers? Newcastle-upon-Tyne? They're all present in our round-up of progressive rock's most ludicrous album concepts
Why you should definitely own Discipline by King Crimson
King Crimson's Discipline is an adventurous, experimental and ground-breaking collection from one of rock’s truly singular bands
The story behind Styx's Pieces Of Eight album artwork
Styx commissioned Hipgnosis, the high priests of album art, to provide a cover for their 1978 album Pieces Of Eight. They ended up being bamboozled by artspeak
Raven Bush: the albums that shaped my debut solo record
Former Syd Arthur man Raven Bush recently released his debut solo album Fall Into Noise
Crown Lands: 'Canadians are polite, but we’re not nice'
With current and historical events fuelling their fire, Crown Lands' EP The White Buffalo wraps stories of indigenous trauma in a luxurious prog package
How Opeth ditched the death metal on Heritage
In 2011 Swedish prog metallers released their tenth album Heritage, ditching the heavier stuff and going full on prog.
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
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?
