How Big Big Train broke through with The Underfall Yard
The inside story of Big Big Train's 2009 album The Underfall Yard, their first with singer David Longdon and drummer Nick D'Virgilio
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When are Yes not Yes? When they're Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe!
The story of the 1989 album Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. A classic Yes reunion by any other name...
Acolyte singer Morgan-Leigh Brown talks us through brand new album Entropy
Australian prog rockers Acolyte will release their new concept album Entropy in May
Why I ❤️ Rush’s Permanent Waves, by Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on Permanent Waves, the Rush album that streamlined their songs and gave them their first radio hit
Saucerful Of Secrets’ Gary Kemp: “Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was utterly intimidating”
Gary Kemp on sharing a stage with Pink Floyd members, Spandau Ballet’s secret prog past and the chances of brand new Saucerful Of Secrets songs
How Star Wars helped The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot up the charts
The inside story of The Alan Parsons Project's second album, 1977's I Robot
Bees, ballads, Michael Bolton, and the heroically overblown return of Touch
While the return of American band Touch will be a delight for AOR fans, it’s also likely to see the return of people re-telling a 40-year-old story that the band wish would just fly away
Listen to Pentral's debut album What Lies Ahead Of Us here
Brazilian prog rock trio Pentral talk us through debut album What Lies Ahead, track by track
How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves and journeyed towards The Dark Side
After Syd Barrett left, Pink Floyd were on a constant search for a sound – their sound. Eventually, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason would find it
The making of IQ's Tales From The Lush Attic
Self-produced and chaotically mixed in five days, this is how 80s prog rockers IQ made their 1983 debut album
Is Laura Meade the most dangerous woman in America?
The Izz singer’s second solo LP is a captivating concept set – with a message open to your interpretation
"Crimson defined prog": Rosalie Cunningham on her favourite prog icon Ian McDonald
"I would like to urge any prog fans who haven’t heard the McDonald And Giles album to do so immediately," says Rosalie Cunningham of former King Crimson man Ian McDonald
Fish looks back on his solo career and what retirement means
Former Marillion frontman Fish says 11th solo album Weltschmerz is his last. Here he looks back at the highs and lows of his solo career
A New Day Yesterday: the story of Jethro Tull's Stand Up
Arguably the first prog album to reach No.1 in the charts, this is the inside story of Jethro Tull’s 1969 album Stand Up
Why I ❤️ Genesis's Selling England By The Pound, by Fish
Fish praises Selling England By The Pound by Genesis, a record that influenced his journey as a singer and lyricist
“We were bored of doing things the same old way". How Rush made Signals
After the massive success of Moving Pictures, Rush had the world at their feet. So the ever-contrary Canadians turned to new technology for 1982's Signals...
Gun-raids, back-stabbings, bust-ups and bitterness: The madness of late-70s Hawkwind
If you thought all Hawkwind’s freaky stuff belonged to the early 70s, you ain't seen nothing yet
Voivod’s Michel ‘Away’ Langevin: 10 albums that changed my life
Voivod drummer Away digs deep into his record crate and pulls out vintage metal, head-spinning prog and crusty anarcho-punk
The making of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love
After the experimental left-turn of The Dreaming, Hounds Of Love's contemporary prog sound saw Kate Bush back at No. 1
