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Terminal Velocity saw the pair reuniting a decade after their traumatic split. But Petrucci said he had a selfish reason for Mike Mangini staying in DT – three years before Portnoy’s return
When Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge created the Canterbury scene via Soft Machine’s first record, they’d already split up
22 shows, 25 songs, 80,000 witnesses – her triumph was tinged with terror, but she’ll never forget the love she felt from her audiences in 2014
After tragedy shattered drummer Neil Peart’s life, many were just glad to have their 17th studio album in 2002. But it left almost everyone disappointed at the time
When Doja Cat turned her hit song Say So into a heavier piece for an awards show, the Australian guitarist’s work was unexpectedly part of it. Surprisingly, he didn’t call a lawyer
The story of the Norwegian prog metallers’ 2023 album Heimdal includes a mysterious Norse god, a line from Blackadder Goes Forth, cross-country skiing and childhood pop influences
The 12th Arctangent was another showcase of genre-splicing talent, laden with quality and fostering the friendliest atmosphere I’ve ever felt at a festival
From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music
1977 is remembered as a moment of musical revolution, when bands like Burnel’s Stranglers took crowns from bands like Wakeman’s Yes. But as the pair agreed when they discussed that time, it wasn’t that simple
As he released his most recent album Oxymore, he celebrated the fact he’d lived through three moments of major disruption – and looked forward to more
Once described as “spacey prog-folk,” the Irish family band’s unique blend of traditional themes and modern instrumentation pushed boundaries across the music world
Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year
The classic line-up fell apart after disastrous attempts to make the follow-up to Tormato in Paris, before a new line-up released Drama in 1980
The 80s prog-pop duo’s main songwriter had a lot to say via their first album in 17 years
The space rock band’s master controller on going solo, remixing his catalogue and the philosophy of “ethnological forgery”
Ace proggy sounds you must hear from Aisles, IT, Gates Of Kiev, Rodrigo Pagavino and more in our all-new Tracks Of The Week
The keyboard genius’ relationship with engineer Robert Moog may have had a shaky start, but it paid dividends to both men – and countless followers
Best known as Jon Anderson’s replacement in Yes, Benoît David rejoined the cult Canadian proggers to make the strongest album of their career
He recalls not going to his own band’s gigs, his first acid experience, losing confidence in his playing, annoying druids at Stonehenge, who hit Ginger Baker with a pool cue, and the former member he wished would die (and did)
