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Hot proggy sounds from The Pineapple Thief, Prince Of Failure, Maya Ongaku, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
By Jerry Ewing Published
Ace new prog you must hear from Changing Places In The Fire, Source, Datura Lodge and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Crown Lands talk music biz, 19-minute songs, and why they'd rather be killed by robots than zombies
By Henry Yates Published
Crown Lands' new album Apocalypse is a sci-fi story, but it echoes what's going on in the world today

The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The Beatles
By Grant Moon Published
Soord’s inspiration comes from a man who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right

How Tales From Topographic Oceans became the most arduous project in Yes’ history
By Sid Smith Published
Used as a byword for musical over-indulgence, 1973 album fought its creators every step of the way – right down to its master tapes nearly being crushed by a bus

From trauma to triumph: The story of Genesis's A Trick Of The Tale
By Mark Blake Published
After Peter Gabriel left Genesis, many thought it signalled the end of the band. But Phil Collins stepped up to the mic, and the triumphant result was one of their greatest albums

“We’re giving people candy with razor blades in it!” Crippled Black Phoenix on radically caring about the world
By Dom Lawson Published
Rejecting efforts to silence and define them, their new album Sceaduhelm is more thoughtful than ever – but also more accessible

Watch David Gilmour play Pink Floyd classic Wish You Were Here in his home studio, and talk about the song's creation
By Paul Brannigan Published
"I remember the moment of creating it quite often"

Magic mushrooms broke the tension when Marillion went pop with Holidays In Eden
By Dave Everley Published
Tension was rife as they tried to write their second album with Steve Hogarth – until a night in traditional Mexican outfits broke the ice

Genesis: The early years - a surprisingly difficult quiz
By Fraser Lewry Published
How much do you know about that time in Genesis's history when no one argued about which version of the band was the best or how it all went wrong when so-and-so left?

Remembering that time Rush's Alex Lifeson trolled the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with the most ridiculous awards speech ever
By Merlin Alderslade Published
"Blah blah blah, blah blah-blah-blah-blah, blah blah, blah blah-blah!"

Geoff Tate on the third installment of what's now an Operation Mindcrime trilogy
By Dave Ling Published
Almost 40 years on, the singer of Queensrÿche’s signature album releases his own third instalment

“The band didn’t break up. But there won’t be any more new music”: Fates Warning’s Ray Alder looks ahead
By Dave Ling Published
Singer explains why he gets involved in so many projects

“Our amazingly different ideas sadly tore us apart”: Why 10cc’s original line-up couldn’t last
By Lin Bensley Published
Their unique blend of prog and pop brought them acclaim from all quarters – but after four albums the quartet broke in half. Was it inevitable?

Prog veteran David Paton: I loved working with Alan Parsons, Kate Bush and Rick Wakeman. There’s one band I hated
By James McNair Published
The singer, bassist and guitarist explains what it was like to make music with legends – and wonders if he retired too soon

“Nothing important was ever achieved by being nice”: The Darkness star Justin Hawkins on his prog hero
By Paul Lester Published
Singer and guitarist has long loved an American counterpart for his eccentricity, his unpredictable creativity and his love of pyramids

When Roger Waters was asked to take on the mantle of Pink Floyd, and how it rejuvenated him
By Prog Published
After the revelation of his Desert Trip festival experience, he returned with his Us + Them tour – eight years after he thought he’d delivered his swan song

What Radiohead means to Ed O’Brien after solo album Blue Morpho transformed him
By Julian Marszalek Published
A battle with depression resulted in a new way of life for the guitarist, as illustrated on second solo album Blue Morpho

This Kinks album was snubbed for five decades. Then the world realised it was a prog masterpiece
By Jo Kendall Published
They were pipped to the rock opera post by The Who’s Tommy. A commercial flop at the time, it’s a perfect commentary on today’s political climate

With a future Uriah Heep singer and rapidly changing style, were Lucifer’s Friend prog?
By Malcolm Dome Published
Embracing jazz, working with Krautrock icon Conny Plank and becoming early adopters of orchestration, the German band often didn’t know what would come out of their studio sessions
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