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Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell: the soundtrack of my life
Wishbone Ash guitarist/singer Andy Powell picks his albums, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the guitarist who "led the way in music and fashion, everything, really"
“Look at Kate Bush or Queen: sometimes when you don’t do the norm, that’s what changes the world a little bit” - How Midge Ure finally embraced his prog tendencies
Ultravox’s Vienna and Band Aid might have made his name but Yes, Uriah Heep and ELP figured in his musical education - even if no one noticed
“There has always been friction between me and Roger… I think, ‘Why do you have to say these things?’” Richard Wright’s personality clash with Pink Floyd colleague Roger Waters
Keyboardist's feud went as far back as refusing to give band leader a cigarette in their early days
"A ferocious shot across the bows": How Love's Da Capo album blew the 60s wide open
Love's second album was a seismic shift from their rock’n’roll roots: a mix of blues jamming, jazz freakouts and baroque folk that laid down a gauntlet to their peers...
Every Coheed And Cambria album ranked from worst to best
They’ve meshed prog, post-hardcore and emo over the years in their distinguished catalogue, but which album is Coheed And Cambria's finest hour?
“David Bowie’s Lodger was supposed to be called Planned Accidents… I was the accident!” Adrian Belew on being poached from Frank Zappa’s band
King Crimson and Talking Heads veteran recalls having to record for Bowie without hearing the songs first
Shagged-out chic and avant-garde pop: How Godley & Creme became Britain's weirdest popstars
Cannibalism, concept albums with Peter Cook and reinventing the pop video: What Godley & Creme did after 10cc.
Every Sigur Rós album ranked from worst to best
The unique, incomparable catalogue of Iceland's biggest band re-reviewed and ranked
Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from TF&TD, Susanna and more
Great new prog music to check out from Held By Trees, The 3 Clubmen, Aisles, The Holy Family, Spurv and more...
"It was like falling off a log" - how Pendragon took on the pandemic. And won!
Nick Barrett's always chosen to do thing his way with Pendragon. Here he tells the story of battling back against being ion tour when Covid struck...
Les Claypool on Pink Floyd, working with superstar offspring, and "one of the stupidest things I ever decided to do"
After a gap of two decades, Primus mainman Les Claypool has reactivated one of his many other projects, the Pink Floyd-friendly Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
Radiohead's OK Computer: The last rock album that truly mattered
Inside Radiohead's OK Computer: darkness, isolation, paranoia, and songs so far ahead of their time that the world is still catching up
“Led Zeppelin’s fee went from £500 to £20,000 in a year!” Collapsing stages and no toilets: The 1969 Bath Blues Festival that inspired Glastonbury
They sold 7000 tickets – and 30,000 people turned up. How The Bath Blues Festivals became the inspiration to a young Michael Eavis and Glastonbury.
"Like Starcastle fronted by Bruce Dickinson!" - how Metal Church man went prog with Presto Ballet
Metal Church guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof reveals a much proggier side to his musical character with US prog outfit Presto Ballet
“He’s making different chords underneath all this music… and singing a middle harmony at the same time!” Joe Bonamassa’s love for Chris Squire
A blues guitar icon calling a prog bassist his hero? It’s unusual, but it’s not unheard of
How The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium brilliantly rewired prog rock for a new generation of punk rock kids
Released in June 2003, The Mars Volta's debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium is a prog-punk masterpiece
“When they make documentaries about the 70s, they talk about glam and prog rock. 10cc weren't either so we don’t get a mention..." The rise and fall of 10cc's original line-up
Four great musicians and songwriters, known for their pioneering studio techniques, 10cc ruled the charts and straddled a line between prog and pop. But was their genre-defying talent their undoing?
Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Neal Morse, Haken and more
Cool new prog music from NMB, Edward Reekers, Frankie & The Witch Fingers and more...
