Latest Features on Prog
“Some men and women felt threatened by a woman appearing nude”: Hawkwind ex Stacia Blake’s life in art
She busts myths about where she came from, how she joined and how she felt about Lemmy – but won’t discuss her departure from the space rock icons
Cool new prog from Haken, Stick Men, Happy The Man, Enslaved and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog you must hear from Susanna, Playgrounded, REZN and more in our all new Tracks Of The Week
How Blood And Thunder turned Mastodon from Southern misfits to 21st-century metal stars
Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found
It's 10 years since Radiohead last released an album and I accidentally got the only interview for it
How a night on the tiles in Paris with Radiohead in 2016 turned into something more special
How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII
His 1973 debut solo album was roundly hated by label bosses and reviewers – but it became a coffee-table classic and gave him freedom from Yes
Why Roger Hodgson’s most ambitious Supertramp song still gives him goosebumps
Fool’s Overture, from 1977’s Even In The Quietest Moments, came together after a few years of stewing. It still takes its writer on a journey when he hears it
Pink Floyd’s fight over Comfortably Numb’s inclusion on The Wall was a key moment in their history
How the band changed dramatically between their first two shows at Earls Court in 1973 and their five-night return in 1981
Why the happy, positive Bruce Soord writes sad, melancholy solo albums
Ghosts In The Park contains songs he’d never take to The Pineapple Thief, or talk about in coffee shops. He explains how he found the collection of stories in hotel rooms
Devin Townsend feels like it took a 10-year dump to deliver The Moth
After pushing through a gruelling period of self-analysis, he reflects on not being allowed to express emotions, feeling abandoned, not crying in front of dogs – and what’s coming next
“I got shot down many times: ‘It’s pop. It’s bubblegum. The logo is ugly. We don’t hear a single!’” Asia’s debut album
The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer
“My career has been about getting it slightly, wonkily wrong”: Peter Hammill’s maverick life in prog
Standing apart from the crowd can be a hazardous business, but the Van der Graaf Generator veteran has always made it look easy
“They say it all went wrong when I started singing. I think we got better”: Genesis’ A Trick Of The Tail, track by track
50 years ago, as Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel, the always-divisive band had fans to appease and debts to pay. This is how they did it
“This mysterious fog looked like God was up there. It was tobacco smoke”: Nick Harper on growing up around Pentangle
He recalls discovering what Bert Jansch was really like, leaving Danny Thompson on stage, and the band’s artistic connection to Jimi Hendrix
“I helped Roger Waters a lot – he wasn’t a musician when Pink Floyd started”: The lost Richard Wright interview
On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did
“ADHD isn’t a superpower. But we can turn pain into poetry’’: TesseracT and Chimp Spanner duo’s Prince Of Failure
Daniel Tompkins and Paul Ortiz smash prog together with nu metal on their cathartic self-titled record
In a world of smiling 60s beat bands, Procol Harum were serious – and it paid off
The proto-prog debut album that followed blockbuster single A Whiter Shade Of Pale contained an 18-minute suite and challenging lyrics. It was everything the late Gary Brooker wanted it to be – almost
Phil Manzanera knew Roxy Music were going to make it when they made their debut album for £5,000
Guitarist who failed his first audition recalls making 1972 debut album for just £5,000
Was Chris Squire and Steve Hackett’s only Squackett album worth the wait?
Yes bassist and ex Genesis guitarist released A Life Within A Day in 2012. It probably wasn’t what fans were expecting. What was it instead?
“Afraid Of Sunlight escaped more than it was released." How Marillion's eighth album brought the curtain down on their time at EMI and set the band up for the rest of their career...
1994's Brave set Marillion on a collision course with their record label, EMI. A year later, they went out on a high with Afraid of Sunlight. This is the story...
