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"A lot of famous musicians love the power of being the most socially powerful person in the room and get off on it. That to me is utterly repulsive and vile." How Garbage broke taboos surrounding mental health with their 1998 hit single

A song about “out-thinking and outmanoeuvring” sections of the music industry gave the band a push towards a Grammy

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“They’d always played fast and loose with traditional song structures. This album pushed it even further”: Big Country wouldn’t have called Steeltown a prog record – but it is

1984 release tackled issues of the day cleverly and with incredible musicality

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“My friends wanted to check out, get stoned, escape. I wanted to sift through my consciousness and see what was beyond”: Psychedelic substances led Rival Sons’ Jay Buchanan to the Mahavishnu Orchestra

The vocalist found inspiration in John McLaughlin’s ability to make different pieces feeling like different drugs

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“I’d wake up, have no memory of it, then play it back – and funnily enough it worked”: The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord drank to forget his new songs as he wrote them

His fourth solo album Ghosts In The Park explores emotions that followed the loss of both his parents

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"Substitute any Vietnam reference with any current war and the lyrics still stand up. I think the lyrics on Paranoid are timeless." How themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust shaped Black Sabbath's second album

Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid

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"He's stabbed to death by a monochrome clown, who promptly blows himself up." My Chemical Romance headline Thursday night of Sonic Temple with a stunning show for the ages

The emo legends underscore why they're the most important rock band since Nirvana

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Top new proggy sounds from MONO, Shearwater, Earthside and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog you need to hear from hubris, Antariksh, Wildernesses and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"I think people who were fans of grunge like Soundgarden would be floored by Swervedriver." Sugar and Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould picks the soundtrack of his life

Hüsker Dü, Sugar and solo songwriter and musician Bob Mould picks his records,artists and gigs of lasting significance

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The story of Genesis and A Trick Of The Tail is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

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“You can actually listen to these albums back-to-back in reverse order”: Why Crown Lands’ fourth album Apocalypse is a prequel to second album Fearless

Canadian pair worked with Rush and Foo Fighters producer to deliver a full-throttle return to prog following the new-age and ambient Ritual I & II

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"The guitar pyrotechnics are more of a controlled blaze these days, but the flame is still keenly felt." Peter Frampton's long adventure continues on Carry The Light

Peter Frampton picks up the torch again

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Deep Purple announce high-end hifi hookup with audio company Revox

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The Rolling Stones appear as their younger selves via "groundbreaking deepfake technology" in new video starring Odessa A'zion

Odessa A'zion appears with the distinctly younger Stones following her triumphant role as Rachel Mizler in Marty Supreme

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"The key to the band's sound is that all the guys in the band are really into progressive rock..." Magic Pie beat a case of writer's block to make sixth album Maestro

Norwegian proggers (with an Icelandic singer) Magic Pie dialled up the heavy rock quota on 2025's Maestro, their first new album for six years

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"I will never play with them again. I’d rather die than play with them." Don't hold your breath for a New Order reunion performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony

Peter Hook makes his feelings on a New Order reunion crystal clear

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“By day they worked on the official record. At night they taped an entirely different record, without the knowledge or approval of the label”: The story of Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, Quiet Sun and their sly posthumous album

Guitarist’s mid-70s juggling act proved his previous band’s worth via their LP Mainstream, assembled in a rush while he was tracking solo debut Diamond Head

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"To my shock, as I was singing Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin walked into the club." The story behind the night that Led Zeppelin watched Heart play a Led Zeppelin set

The Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin gig. But six years later, Led Zeppelin walked in to a Heart gig to find the sisters playing Led Zeppelin songs

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How much difference does upgrading your stylus make to the sound of your vinyl?

Upgrading your stylus could be the single best thing you do for your hi-fi. But why, exactly? We take a deep dive into how you can enhance your listening experience in just a few simple steps

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"I learned this note-for-note because it really touched me emotionally; it was so vulnerable." The eight songs that fuelled Steve Stevens' teenage rock'n'roll dreams

Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens recalls the songs that rocked his world during his formative years

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"I held these pieces of paper in the palms of my hands like I was holding a newborn child." The story of the platinum-selling, two-minute blast of Celtic punk inspired by historic musical documents

Dropkick Murphys' I’m Shipping Up To Boston was a collision of legless pirates and beyond-the-grave lyrics from American folk hero Woody Guthrie

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"I didn't choke! No furballs!" Watch Foo Fighters' five-song Tiny Desk Concert

Dave Grohl returns home to Washington DC to play intimate NPR Music show

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"The whole truck just disappeared, all our gear, gone!" How a $40,000 robbery in New Orleans in 1970 forced Pink Floyd's David Gilmour to purchase what has become the highest-priced guitar in history

"The police hadn't helped us much, but the FBI got to work"

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“The cycle of album-tour-album-tour is dying. It’s long been dead at our end of the scale”: This prog band took a risk to escape broken music industry models. So far, it’s paying off

Anglo-Welsh quintet wrote enough material for a double album, but that’s not the format it’s being released in. Have they found a way to break the mould?

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"Somehow I’m still here, and I’m still in one piece." The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon shares first new solo music in five years

Listen here to new Brian Fallon songs Not Bad For New Jersey and Better Before

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