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“Life is meaningless – so embrace it”: Steven Wilson looks back at Planet Earth
His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death”
“Gong’s appeal? Not becoming too commercially successful”: Daevid Allen’s grateful farewell
Months before his death from cancer, he encapsulated his unique vision in a forward-looking album, then left others to continue his work
What do Syd Barrett and Robert Fripp have to do with Britpop? See Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish
Okay, it’s not all-out prog – but the band’s second record contains the spirit of the genre, with its English eccentricities, non-linear approach to playing and rule-breaking flair
Many consider Blackwater Park to be Opeth’s masterpiece. Opeth don’t
The classic line-up had assembled, Steven Wilson was contributing and Mikael Åkerfeldt was mining songwriting gold – but you can’t convince him the 2001 release was their magnum opus
What happened on Kate Bush’s Tour Of Life, her only-ever road trip, in 1979
Gruelling exertion, exhilaration, determination and a human tragedy all played a part in her 1979 Tour Of Life – and she never hit the road again
"I have the art for In The Court Of The Crimson King blown up on my office wall, right next to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." Nova Collective's Dan Briggs gives us a glimpse into his prog world...
BTB&M bassist Dan Briggs formed Nova Collective with members of Haken and Cynic and they released their debut album The Further Side in 2017
"We tend to write very emotive music – you could say emotive rock." How Panic Room discovered themselves with Incarnate
The story of UK prog quintet Panic Room's fourth album, 2014's Incarnate
Wendy James fell in love with an Iron Butterfly song she’d never be drunk enough to write
Won over by the psych-prog outfit, ex Transvision Vamp singer used a clip from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of her own songs
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson stays curious while he still can with Curious Ruminant
Curious Ruminant, the band’s third album in three years, is more meditative and personal as their leader explains why he’s more motivated than ever
Cool new proggy sounds from Nad Sylvan, Bjørn Riis, McStine & Minnemann and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Ace new prog you must hear from Glass Hammer, Ash Twin Project, Whimsical Creature and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
The 10 best Genesis songs, as chosen by Prog readers
Over 28 years the genre giants released 15 albums, achieving over 100 million sales. It’s unfair to boil their work down to just a handful of key songs – but you did it anyway
When David Gilmour revisited Pompeii and faced the ghosts of Pink Floyd
Safer pyrotechnics, local hero status and the benefit of a Wallace & Gromit movie helped make his 2017 concert movie a very different experience from Floyd’s 1972 release
Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to King Crimson, ELP and Roxy Music
Lyricist, art director, producer and all-round creative who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved
After an epic-length search for lost tapes, Clannad passed into Legend alongside Robin Hood
The Irish band’s award-winning work on cult 80s TV show Robin Of Sherwood transformed how music was used in small-screen productions. Amid flashbacks to overwork and lightning-speed inspiration, they bowed out at the Albert Hall with the release of Legend Extended
“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland
He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974
“Think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!” Ivar Bjørnson’s gateway from metal to prog
Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, and discovering musical airplane engines via his wife
Great new prog you must hear from Cosmograf, O.R.k., Jenny Hval and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Great new proggy sounds from Oak, Panzerballett, Lumens and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it
Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run
“ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Pat Cash’s record collection
Travelling the world with his Walkman, the young Australian moved on from his family’s opera and folk to Rush, Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, Francis Dunnery and Anathema, and adopted his chequered headband in honour of Cheap Trick
