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Yes grace the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Peter Gabriel, Fish, Edgar Broughton, Gong, Bruce Soord, Tiger Moth Tales, The Emerald Dawn, Southern Empire, Christina and loads more...

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Magenta replace Lifesigns for Fusion 2024

Late Lifesigns call up to Cruise To The Edge sees Welsh proggers Magenta now headlining Fusion Festival 5

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“Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education

Former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman traces a line from Nat King Cole and Frank SInatra to Talk Talk, Marillion, Jethro Tull and others

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“I grew up with a lot of metal, so the heavier side of prog is where my roots are." Southern Empire and the making of Civilisation

Southern Empire's second album Civilisation saw the Australian quintet go for it on a truly epic scale

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“We started seeing this crossroads in the progressive metal scene. Bands were going towards art-rock – more technical. We wanted to preserve that metal vibe”: Soen keep it heavy with latest album Memorial

Despite being seen as a novelty supergroup, singer Joel Ekelöf argues they were always the real deal, and they’re still prog even if their new songs are more concise

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“I don’t even know where you’d put us. I guess ‘American symphonic art-prog-pop’?” The sound of Pattern-Seeking Animals

With their third studio album Only Passing Through, Pattern-Seeking Animals' John Boegehold finally feels the band are escapong the 'Spock's Beard spin-off' tag and estabishing their real identity

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"There's a loack of occasion in music these days." How Threshold are trying to right that with Dividing Lines

After much critical acclaim was heaped on their 2017 epic, Legends Of The Shires, prog metal exponents Threshold are back with their 12th studio album, the darkly brooding Dividing Lines.

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If you can sing prog, you can dub foreign-language movies: the satisfying double career of ex Kayak vocalist Edward Reekers

He’s voiced Obi-Wan Kenobi and Harry Potter characters for Dutch editions - but returns to his first love with rock opera The Liberty Project featuring Steve Hackett, Arjen Lucassen and Damian Wilson

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Great new prog music you must hear from Cyan, DiVirgilio Morse Jennings and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

The week's best new prog music to check out from Ihsahn, Madder Mortem, Rainburn and more...

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“There are some good things on it… I just find it hard to believe we called a prog album Love Beach, and the three of us look like the Bee Gees. That’s a prog cover?” Carl Palmer on ELP’s most misguided moment

Drummer admits the trio had reached the end of their collective creativity and had actually split before making 1978 album that showed “America had got to us, obviously!”

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“21st Century Schizoid Man – the first track on the first prog album – is a political protest song! Anyone who says prog and politics don’t belong together never realised what it was about”: The Tangent’s Andy Tillison on why prog should challenge you

Self-confessed “raving leftie anarchist” gave the subtitle “A protest, a reflection, a couple of regrets and a rant” to The Tangent’s 10th album for good reason

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“Occasionally one of their legs would go up slightly. Were they playing or checking emails? I thought it would be fun to have them doing The Hokey Cokey”: Bill Bailey’s Kraftwerk sketch

Comedian and master prog musician discusses the gems in his record collection, including Yes, Roxy Music and Hawkwind – and outlines plans to play the Albert Hall like an instrument

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The best new prog music you must hear from Mariusz Duda, The Anchoress and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

The week's coolest new prog music to check out from Steeleye Span, Green Lung, The Chronicles Of Father Robin and more...

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"Maybe we could play a show at Stonehenge? That would be very cool.” Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly and the making of Friendship

Taking inspiration from an idyllic childhood and friendships left behind, Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly’s fourth album takes the listener on an emotional and nostalgic journey. The former Beardfish and current Big Big Trainer tells Prog more…

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“I was interested in being on stage with people who are not only comfortable with not knowing what’s going to happen next, but would rather not know”: Bill Bruford’s journey through jazz and prog

The groundbreaking drummer’s bid to find a balance between Yes, King Crimson and Genesis on one hand, and his Earthworks project on the other

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“A chance to work with him would be incredible. But in a way I do… he always raises the bar a bit higher”: Why Peter Gabriel is Kip Winger’s prog hero

Pin-up turned classical composer deeply inspired by a catalogue that shows “the difference between musicians who are entertainers versus musicians who are true artists”

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“I wouldn’t say we were trying to create another Close To The Edge or A Night At The Opera, but there are definitely some of those elements on the record." The making of the Von Hertzen Brothers' War Is Over

Kicking off their seventh studio album with the 12-minute title track, War Is Over found Finland's Von Hertzen Brothers on fine prog form

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"So Jaco Pastorius and Joni Mitchell walk past and ask, ‘Hey, is there a party here?’." The story of Italian prog legends PFM

Newly signed to InsideOut Music, Italin prog legends Premiata Forneria Marconi return with new album Emotional Tattoos in both English and Italian

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Toto’s David Paich on the making of Africa: “We had fun with it like The Beatles did, made a loop, adding instruments one at a time, and then it just took off”

RECORDING WEEK 2023: He also says that “Keith Emerson was our Jimi Hendrix”

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“The perception of what kind of band you are can count for so much… The hard lesson to learn is that the quality of the music counts for very little”: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree’s slow rise to success

After a 20-year struggle to secure their status, the band leader looked back on what it took to score a top 30 album

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“There’s a tendency for people to cherry-pick tracks or create playlists… we prefer our music to be listened to from the opening track to the final notes”: Downes Braide Association on the album as art form

Geoff Downes and Chris Braide argue the case for storytelling, collaborating, and carrying on the legacies of John Wetton, Greg Lake, Chris Squire and Keith Emerson

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"It blurred all the boundaries of my musical vocabulary." - John Wetton on Surf's Up

Back in issue 48, we polled readers and musicians on their favourite prog albums. This was John Wetton's...

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“Mike Oldfield engineered the first track Henry Cow recorded, because Tom Newman had been celebrating the end of Tubular Bells and was brainless drunk under the console”: Bassist John Greaves’ life in prog

After starting out in his dad’s dance band, the Welshman encountered Henry Cow at university, knew he had to be part of it - and he’s never looked back

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“Whenever I got accosted on the street by a crazy maniac, the best thing to do was walk away. I always felt threatened. We had to leave by the back door at a lot of places”: Devo’s battle for survival

They’re the coneheaded “alien” stars whose controversial anthems and madcap behaviour wound up the masses – but how prog were Devo?

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“I remember Nick Mason saying, ‘Pink Floyd is stopping… we’ll leave him to do the big outdoor concerts now!’” But Jean-Michele Jarre argues: “I want to contribute to tomorrow, not yesterday”

Pioneer’s life and times include predicting that electronic music would change the world by thinking “not in terms of notes, but as music that you do with sounds and noise”

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