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Latest Prog News
Former Jethro Tull arranger and keyboardist Dee Palmer has died, aged 88
Dee Palmer worked on Tull's classic early 70s albums and was the band's keyboardist from 1976 to 1980
Rush played a classic song for the first time in 47 years on the fourth night of the Fifty Something tour
The Fifty Something tour continues to throw up surprises – and this time it was A Farewell To Kings, aired for the first time since 1979
Muse announce The Wow! Signal Europa Tour in support of their forthcoming tenth album
Matt Bellamy's band will tour Europe this winter
Jethro Tull announce newly expanded and remixed reissue of their 1999 album J-Tull Dot Com
New three-CD and Blu-ray release J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net will be available in August
Someone's made a multi-cam version of Rush's first full performance of 2112 in nearly 30 years
The internet is finally proving to be worthwhile
Rush mix it up on night two of the Fifty Something tour - and play the whole of 2112
Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Anika Nilles and Loren Gold make more memories at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles
King Crimson announce listening sessions in conjunction with London's Polygon Portal
King Crimson will release a newly mixed version of 1971's Islands on CD and Blu-ray and on vinyl in September
Latest Prog Features
Rush’s Neil Peart, an exploding golf ball and two career-changing conversations
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall their late friend and bandmate, recalling what he brought to the band and how they began to move on without him
All the songs Rush have never played live… yet
Rush have recorded 159 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?
Praised by half the Beatles, Rick Wakeman and Pat Metheny, Rod Argent still didn’t have it all easy
Founding member of The Zombies and Argent had no trouble writing songs that have endured for decades, and easily collaborated with Phil Collins, The Who and many others. But he also encountered his share of troubles in the music industry
“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes, and how it led to 90125
Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart
“They’ve had a lesser impact due to their complexity”: No-Man’s Tim Bowness on Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
They collaborated on Bowness’ 2017 album Lost In The Ghost Light, but his appreciation for the rock flute icon goes back to Tull’s early trilogies
The “really evil” bandleader who was more challenging than Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp
Despite a huge range of experience, bassist easily identifies the person he found most difficult to work with
Latest Prog Reviews
Lowen bring Middle Eastern mysticism and big, crushing riffs to Download 2026
One of the most exciting bands in British metal put on a special showing for their Download debut
Slift score an immediate, dizzying masterpiece with new album Fantasia
The cosmonauts have shortened their songs for their fourth full-length, but they’re every bit as immersive and disorienting as before
Tool's Sonic Temple headline set was peak Tool, and we wouldn't have it any other way
Tool's first show of 2026 wasn't a classic crowd-pleaser, but those who lasted the distance were treated to something special
Green Lung’s first festival headline show cements them as the future of metal
At London’s Desertfest, the occult five-piece perform all of their darkly fun anthems while backed up by gorgeous videos, returning members and a malfunctioning, Eddie-like mascot
Viral sensations Angine de Poitrine dazzle, confuse and delight at debut London show
Avant-garde Canadian twosome Angine de Poitrine justify all the hype at their sold-out London debut
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
