Prog Features

In the summer of 1976, Jon Anderson released his first solo album, Olias Of Sunhillow – forty years later, he talks us through its complex creation

Norwegians Wobbler recreate the epic sounds of early 70s prog rock, but in 2017, with the help of Karisma and a new line-up, they finally started to get the recognition they deserve

We explore the prog credentials of Faroese artist Eivør Pálsdóttir, whose music career has encompassed avant-jazz, trip hop, chamber pop, throat singing and even impersonating Marilyn Monroe

Led Zeppelin wrote a song about him, Pink Floyd invited him to sing on another, but this is the very best of Roy Harper's own recorded work

What began as an impromptu phone call has snowballed into a punk prog supergroup with Stewart Copeland as frontman. Meet Gizmodrome – they’re “a hell of a lot of band!”

While arguments about what post-rock actually is continue to rage, the genre has given us plenty of adventurous and thrilling music

Dennis De Young and Tommy Shaw argue that despite the big hits, Styx always had a proggy heart

Prog's man of our times Steven Wilson on Nine Inch Nails' "huge monolithic statement record" The Fragile

They conquered the world with Video Killed The Radio Star, but they also pushed at the boundaries of the genre, and both members of the band even went on to join Yes! So how prog were Buggles?

Tobie Amies' In the Court Of The Crimson King, King Crimson At 50 launches in cinemas and online this week

Here's the story of London-based baroque pop duo Nirvana who became unwitting prog trailblazers when, in 1967, they released one of the first concept albums, The Story Of Simon Simopath

In 2020, Clannad released the career-spanning anthology, In A Lifetime, and announced they would soon be calling it a day. From Harry’s Game and Robin Of Sherwood, to drugs and miscarriages, vocalists Moya and Pól Brennan run through the highs and lows of the last 50 years

In 2020, French proggers Lazuli paid tribute to their fans on their ninth studio album Le Fantastique Envoi de Dieter Böhm. Singer Dominique Leonetti shares the fantastic story that inspired it

Mostly Autumn's Bryan Josh and Olivia Sparnenn-Josh reveal how the emotional and personal challenges of the pandemic led to the creation of their 2021 album, Graveyard Star

Introducing Major Parkinson's experimental, atmospheric dark prog from Bergen

In 1976 US prog rockers Kansas found themselves in the upper reaches of the US charts with a song that's become a drive time classic

In 2018, Joe Payne released his first solo material; it was heavily influenced by his experiences with mental health. Here's the story of how he brought himself back from the brink after leaving The Enid

Experience Pink Floyd's creative tension during the recording of their perennial 1973 classic

The story of Hawkwind's second album, 1971's In Search Of Space

With 2012's conceptual The Parallax II: Future Sequence US prog metallers Between The Buried Me really let their prog side to the fore