Prog Features

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Ed Wynne has released 15 albums with Ozric Tentacles, has collaborated with Amon Düül UK and Eat Static and, in 2019, issued his first ever solo record, Shimmer Into Nature. Prog catches up with him to reminisce about playing at Stonehenge, opening for Gong and why he decided it was time to make another Ozrics album

As Wobbler emerge from the murky depths of the human psyche with Dwellers Of The Deep, the Norwegian band talk to Prog about not searching for perfection, why we’re all both gods and monsters, and mastering the art of knowing when to stop

He was the maverick genius who conceived the Space Ritual and embodied Hawkwind’s progressive spirit in the 70s. But Robert Calvert played with fire for the sake of his art, as we discover in this edited extract from Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground.

One is a prog rock titan who saw the writing on the wall in 1977. The other is a punk hard man who spent the year brawling with other bands. So when Rick Wakeman and The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Burnel got together in 2012, you’d expect bickering, bloodshed and epic keyboard solos, right? Wrong.

The Ride and former Oasis man explains how he came to play with Pink Floyd and explore the world of progressive music

Swallow The Sun recently announced they would release brand new album Moonflowers in November

Jethro Tull founder Ian Anderson picks ten records that transformed his life in music, from Stateside swing to Finnish folk

Irish band Clannad stake their prog credentials in a story that involves Phil Lynott, Def Leppard, Marillion, Nightwish, Peter Gabriel and loads more...

Smalltown chap makes cinema for ears with startling instrumental debut…

King Crimson were staring into the abyss in 1970, but somehow managed to regroup to record Islands with a one-off line-up

Former Styx singer Dennis DeYoung on bowing out, new album 26 East Vol 2, and the disappointment of no last Styx reunion tour

Rush legend Geddy Lee on the impact of Led Zeppelin IV and the greatest guitar solo ever

There's much more to folk rock than its hey nonny nonny roots, as Jimmy Page will attest. These ten essential albums prove it

In 1985 guitarists Steve Hackett and Steve Howe united in the supergroup GTR and hit the Top 20 in the US with When The Heart Rules The Mind

The Midge Ure-fronted Ultravox may have been 80s chart regulars but their sound owed more to prog and Krautrock than 80s pop

In the 80s East Anglian prog rockers Airbridge were regulars at the Marquee, but then things stalled...

Young guitar virtuoso Plini chats to Prog about Impulse Voices, inspiration and why he considers imitation to be the most sincere form of flattery

He hates Mozart and doesn’t believe in God, but Muse frontman Matt Bellamy and his bandmates have created some of the most awe-inspiring music recent years. In an archive piece from 2009, we delve inside the musical minds of Muse