Prog Features

Watch Geddy Lee give celebrity tobogganing advice

By Fraser Lewry published 20 January 26

Rush's Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson all appeared on Canadian satire show The Mercer Report over the years

How Clutching At Straws broke Marillion and Fish apart

By Dave Everley published 20 January 26

Their fourth studio album came at a point of high tension. Instead of taking the break they needed, they were sent back into the studio. It took decades to resolve the issues that blew up

How Mike Oldfield made Maggie Reilly sing in an odd style to make Moonlight Shadow

By Mike Barnes published 20 January 26

A bottle of wine, a thesaurus and a rhyming dictionary sent his career out of the doldrums, into the Top 5, and helped make 1983 album Crises a success

How Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess nearly played on Pink Floyd’s The Wall

By Dave Ling published 19 January 26

Keyboard maestro admits he gave a “very poor” performance during 1979 session, and Bob Ezrin was right to kick him out

“I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on solo debut 16

By Dom Lawson published 18 January 26

Abandoning attempts to dial down his own drama, he delivered a moving and multifaceted collection of collaborations in 2023. He immediately wanted to do it again

“Dream Theater have been completely unchallenged until now”: How Sons Of Apollo flew before they fell

By Rich Wilson published 18 January 26

Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian had big ambitions when they teamed up with Guns N’ Roses, Mr Big and Journey alumni

“I was shocked when it wasn’t received well”: This 80s band pioneered a new kind of rock – and paid the price

By Joe Banks published 16 January 26

Their bassist quit, then the band split after one more record. Nearly four decades on, their ambitious post rock album is regarded as a masterpiece

Prog's Tracks Of The Week is back with cool new proggy sounds from Big Big Train, Soen, Charlotte Wessels and more

By Jerry Ewing published 15 January 26

Awesome new prog from Fågelle, Jagged City, Sum Of Seven and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

Debate: Will the return of Rush be the biggest prog event of 2026?

By Martin Kielty published 15 January 26

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson own the limelight all year, or can King Crimson, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Crown Lands and The Pineapple Thief grab headlines?

“You probably wouldn’t think we sound like Pink Floyd”: Feeder’s Grant Nicholas lists his prog stars

By Natasha Scharf published 15 January 26

Indie rocker, who was once in a prog band, lists his heroes of the genre

“Somebody threw a toilet roll at Peter Gabriel. He threw it back and it landed just below me. I had that bog roll on my windowsill for years!” Marc Riley’s prog world

By Rob Hughes published 15 January 26

Turned on by Genesis, Beefheart, Zappa and Can, the former member of The Fall and The Creepers continues to smuggle prog into his radio shows

“I have to fit a guitar part over this?” How Rush made Grammy-nominated instrumental YYZ

By Philip Wilding published 14 January 26

When Alex Lifeson got back from a journey his bandmates presented him with a jam piece that finally gelled when they added Morse code to the intro

“His son said it made it easier for him to let go”: The last message of a prog giant who saw his band outlive him

By Martin Kielty published 13 January 26

The Canterbury scene veteran had known the end was near, and set about ensuring his vision would continue in his absence – which it has, despite initial reluctance

Amorphis steered surprisingly close to pop-rock on their latest album. But they’re not selling out

By Joel McIver published 13 January 26

Borderland is more eclectic than ever as they celebrate the uplifting vibes of loud, aggressive music. But how did a band from the heaviest country in the world get so deeply into prog?

“My song flopped. Theirs was a big hit!” A future Mike Oldfield collaborator wound up with a glam rock chart-topper

By Chris Wheatley published 13 January 26

The dubious accolade didn’t tarnish the achievements of a British singer who was once supported by Supertramp

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson was once seconds away from becoming a cop instead of a prog star

By Mark Blake published 11 January 26

He expected to live at least three other lives. But subculture signposts led him to a career as a band leader who never made enemies – and a brief period as Tony Iommi’s boss

David Bowie’s final message to Brian Eno – which he didn’t understand at first

By Mike Barnes published 10 January 26

The pair had been planning to revisit 1995 album Outside before Bowie’s death took fans, friends and colleagues by surprise in 2016

Two Yes members and one Led Zeppelin member got together. Anything could have happened. Very little did

By Nick Shilton published 9 January 26

The demise of the world’s biggest rock band coincided with two prog icons’ descent into bewilderment. The only evidence of their existence is four unreleased demos and a few other hints at what might have been

Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective

By Paul Lester published 9 January 26

Beyond his work with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman and others, plus comparisons to Rush, ELP and krautrock, a commitment to audacious experimentation ran through the true icon’s entire life