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Prog's Tracks Of The Week is back with cool new proggy sounds from Big Big Train, Soen, Charlotte Wessels and more
Awesome new prog from Fågelle, Jagged City, Sum Of Seven and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
Debate: Will the return of Rush be the biggest prog event of 2026?
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson own the limelight all year, or can King Crimson, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Crown Lands and The Pineapple Thief grab headlines?
“You probably wouldn’t think we sound like Pink Floyd”: Feeder’s Grant Nicholas lists his prog stars
Indie rocker, who was once in a prog band, lists his heroes of the genre
“Somebody threw a toilet roll at Peter Gabriel. He threw it back and it landed just below me. I had that bog roll on my windowsill for years!” Marc Riley’s prog world
Turned on by Genesis, Beefheart, Zappa and Can, the former member of The Fall and The Creepers continues to smuggle prog into his radio shows
“I have to fit a guitar part over this?” How Rush made Grammy-nominated instrumental YYZ
When Alex Lifeson got back from a journey his bandmates presented him with a jam piece that finally gelled when they added Morse code to the intro
“His son said it made it easier for him to let go”: The last message of a prog giant who saw his band outlive him
The Canterbury scene veteran had known the end was near, and set about ensuring his vision would continue in his absence – which it has, despite initial reluctance
Amorphis steered surprisingly close to pop-rock on their latest album. But they’re not selling out
Borderland is more eclectic than ever as they celebrate the uplifting vibes of loud, aggressive music. But how did a band from the heaviest country in the world get so deeply into prog?
“My song flopped. Theirs was a big hit!” A future Mike Oldfield collaborator wound up with a glam rock chart-topper
The dubious accolade didn’t tarnish the achievements of a British singer who was once supported by Supertramp
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson was once seconds away from becoming a cop instead of a prog star
He expected to live at least three other lives. But subculture signposts led him to a career as a band leader who never made enemies – and a brief period as Tony Iommi’s boss
David Bowie’s final message to Brian Eno – which he didn’t understand at first
The pair had been planning to revisit 1995 album Outside before Bowie’s death took fans, friends and colleagues by surprise in 2016
Two Yes members and one Led Zeppelin member got together. Anything could have happened. Very little did
The demise of the world’s biggest rock band coincided with two prog icons’ descent into bewilderment. The only evidence of their existence is four unreleased demos and a few other hints at what might have been
Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective
Beyond his work with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman and others, plus comparisons to Rush, ELP and krautrock, a commitment to audacious experimentation ran through the true icon’s entire life
The prog duo who lost their label for being too weird, and decided to get even weirder
Rush, Yes and King Crimson inspired them to confound expectations and create a three-album arc of otherworldly spirituality – in an era when, they believe, there’s no way to win the music industry game
The story of the Supertramp classic the band eventually found too difficult to play
A song that "exploded" out of Roger Hodgson’s head made Supertramp stars, and was loved by Princess Diana and the young princes William and Harry
With Sober, Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen
Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan
How Haken’s last line-up change powered seventh album Fauna
After struggling to escape the stagnation of lockdown, the return of an old friend inspired an “anything goes” attitude for their 2023 release
Every year the most unlikely prog supergroup spend three days shaping weirdo music. It works.
The trio have refined their approach to a project they only started for fun, admitting it’s exploded beyond any of their expectations and changed they way they look at their more usual activities
In the desperate moments before grunge, this British band offered an ambitious alternative
Anomaly-chasing quartet’s challenging response to funk metal came out of their love for Rush, Phil Collins and being odd
“If anything makes me regret anything, it’s looking at Brian Eno”: Still, BJ Cole didn’t do too badly
He set out to confound expectations of pedal steel with post-country band Cochise. Thanks to Captain Beefheart, Love and Hank Marvin, the session hero is pleased to reflect that he got away with it
