
Fond Farewells and Many Partings (Touchstone, Magenta, Lonely Robot)
A night of swansongs at Leamington Spa with Touchstone, Magenta and Lonely Robot (read more)
A night of swansongs at Leamington Spa with Touchstone, Magenta and Lonely Robot (read more)
Riverside hit the road in support of recently released album Love, Fear and the Time Machine. Photos (read more)
With releases from Bauda, Caligula’s Horse and Vanden Plas, October sees a plethora of progressive rock records. (read more)
Even twenty years into their career Spock’s Beard have avoided the all-too-easy trap of turning into their own tribute act (read more)
Geoff Tate’s voice, once a magnificent lead instrument, is a shadow of what it once was. (read more)
Huge guitar, soulful vocals, a strong rhythm section and great use of atmospherics (read more)
Not only the best album of Riverside’s career, but a strong contender for album of the year (read more)
Swirling Mellotron and Hammond organ, blasts of hard rock guitar, rich layered vocal harmonies, and a strong sense of melody. (read more)
Photos from Ramblin’ Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent (read more)
If Spooky Action had something of a punky, garage-rock vibe, Magnet is darker and denser (read more)
There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album’s worth of music in seven or eight minutes. (read more)
Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. (read more)
Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies. (read more)
Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one (read more)
There is evidence of some technical instrumental ability here and there, but they’re failing to do anything worthwhile with those chops. (read more)
Her charisma and remarkable voice dominated the stage throughout (read more)
Luna Rossa increasingly feels not so much “Panic Room unplugged” as a separate parallel band in its own right. (read more)
This was one of those gigs that prompts the usage of words like “Progtastic”. (read more)
Unlike lesser bands who attempt derivative pastiches of the sounds of 70s progressive rock or 80s post-punk, Trojan Horse actually capture the spirit of the things (read more)
For all the fabled self-indulgence of their sprawling studio albums, this recording gives a taste of just why Transatlantic are held in such high regard as a live act. (read more)
Haken have the instrumental virtuosity and musical scope of the best in progressive rock, but unlike some other bands they aren’t content to create reverential pastiches of 70s greats. (read more)
It’s not a full-band recording, but neither is it completely stripped-down and minimalist. The dominant instrumental sounds are acoustic guitar and programmed rhythms, but there’s a lot else in the mix. (read more)
Photos of Steve Hackett live at Hammersmith Apollo, May 10th (read more)
Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002 (read more)
Despite the bands occasional use of the term “prog” in promotion, they don’t go in for grandiose epics. (read more)
Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band’s early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the vocals. That feeling pervades, whether it’s on rockier up-tempo numbers or lush ballads. (read more)
The album upon which ‘Red Rain’, Don’t Give Up’ and the ubiquitous ‘Sledgehammer’ featured will be played in its entirety, along with a showcase of tracks spanning the artist’s career (read more)
‘exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We don’t do any of that, and we don’t wear capes.’ Panic Room, on prog (read more)
“We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!”. Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour. (read more)
Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their music. (read more)
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