Latest Prog News
Maynard James Keenan regrets some of the lyrics he wrote on those early Tool records
Widely regarded as a smart and witty lyricist, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan thinks he could have done better on some tracks
Peter Gabriel shares new single Put The Bucket Down
Peter Gabriel will release new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.
The guy who just climbed that skyscraper live on Netflix listened to a lot of Tool on the way up
Alex Honnold made a playlist of his favourite rock songs for his free solo climb up the 11th-tallest building on Earth last weekend
Rush to release Super Deluxe box set of 1984's Grace Under Pressure in March
New reissue of Rush's tenth studio album, Grace Under Pressure, features new Terry Brown mix of the album and a full 1984 Toronto concert recording
Ten minutes of previously unseen live film of Pink Floyd has escaped onto the internet
The footage sees Pink Floyd playing Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Money on their North American tour in 1977
Roger Waters believes that his vocal opposition to "evil" US President Trump could get him killed
"Trump is obviously very evil, but now he's demented as well as being very evil"
Pink Floyd's legendary Pompeii concert film to get 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray release
Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLIXXII will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray in February
Latest Prog Features
Think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog? Think again
The classically-trained Canadians were wearing their influences with pride by fifth album Sideways. And they were making a concept album about UFOs when their label dropped them
Peter Gabriel’s exit could have finished Genesis. Instead Phil Collins stepped up
The quartet attempted to continue as an instrumental group, then sorted through hundreds of audition tapes, before realising they already had their new vocalist
“I wrote it on a piece of paper and thought, ‘That’s an album!’” How Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics
He recalled the spark that ignited Thick As A Brick when he decided to publish a lyric book – which he admitted nobody needed, and feared would be a cringe experience
Tears For Fears sneaked prog into a run of hit singles in 1984 and 85. So why weren’t they at Live Aid?
As they tried to outdo Trevor Horn, with influences including Genesis and Yes, their second album hit No.1 in the US and No.2 in the UK. But they didn’t contribute to Bob Geldof’s world-changing charity extravaganza
Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
Great new prog you must hear from Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, plantoid, Maebe and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
“Ghosts, rustling, scraping at the window… happening every full moon”: The creepy tale of Camel’s Moonmadness
Charged with matching The Snow Goose’s surprise success, Andy Latimer’s band wrote a record about themselves – disguising their vocals because they’d been told they couldn’t sing
“He wrote, ‘Eat more shit – 100,000 flies can’t be wrong”: German prog icon ignored haters to scale the charts
Accused of being a European “knob-turner,” he faced the music establishment’s rejection attitude with a lesson learned from Salvador Dali, and defied expectations by scaling the charts
Latest Prog Reviews
Soen continue to become more metal and less prog with Reliance
Sticking to compositions of around four minutes, the musicianship and production remain exemplary. But it’s too often funnelled into predictable patterns
“Originally a career-staller, this version really is essential”: Ultravox’s The Collection – Deluxe Edition
Revisited with deep attention to detail, Midge Ure and co’s imperial phase reissue is a genuine audio-visual banquet
“An immersive emotional ride, showing that music makes us feel whole again”: Airbag’s Dysphoria Live
Over 20 years in, Oslo trio deliver their first official live album – and it was worth the wait
“They combine emotional intensity with rapidly evolving progressive chops”: EBB’s The Mirror
Scottish collective’s impressive second album demonstrates why their profile is exploding
“In many ways a dry run for The Wall”: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here remains mysterious at 50
Alienation, loss and a legendary live bootleg – the prog giants’ post-Dark Side masterpiece gets an impressive anniversary box set treatment.
“Often too leaden to float, but the future is visible”: Nektar’s deluxe edition of A Tab In The Ocean
1972 album, which saw them edging away from psychedelia back to standard rock, returns with live treats that hint at what was to come
