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“In the ‘70s I said I’d love to release an album per month, like a magazine. People thought I was insane!” Bill Nelson just released two albums – and he has at least nine more coming up

Making the most of his freedom from the mainstream music industry, the 75-year-old Be Bop Deluxe mastermind says his health issues are making him work faster, not slower

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“There’s nothing I like more than finding our back catalogue in the prog section alongside Yes and Genesis… we wanted to show off every aspect of what we could do as artists”: Call them what you like, but Chicago know they’re a prog band

One of the few groups to ever get away with releasing a double-album as a debut, they’d started out as a covers band who’d rebuild and extend every song they played

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“Music is built into Rebus. Early on he listens to jazz; then I thought, ‘Why not give him my record collection?’” Ian Rankin on the prog soundtrack to his fictional cop’s life

Hi-fi freak who never got over Hawkwind explains what he listens to while he works – and revels in the joy of putting a Mogwai joke in one of his books

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“The band start to sound like the musique concrète pioneers they were, rather than keepers of a farmful of flatulent quadrupeds”: Pink Floyd’s Animals – Dolby Atmos Edition

Pioneers’ ‘punkest’ record gets the Atmos Blu-ray treatment to impressive effect, claiming the music back for proggers

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"All of the prog-related material goes to Gungfly. Gungfly is changing."How Rikard Sjöblom resurrected Gungfly with On Her Journey Round The Sun

Beardfish may have departed this mortal coil as a band, but their former frontman is setting forth on a new musical voyage with his rebranded, ever-evolving Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly, heading straight for the heart of the solar system.

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"This is a more outgoing album. It’s noisier, it’s got lots more musical ideas crammed into it." The story of Gazpacho's Soyuz

Having contemplated the end of the world with their previous album, 2018's Soyuz found Norwegian prog rockers Gazpacho turning their attention to being frozen in time

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Top new prog you really must hear from IZZ, MONO, Pijn, The Decemberists and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds you really should check out from Coma Rossi, Returned To The Earth, worriedaboutsatan, Fernando Perdomo and more..

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The story of King Crimson's Red is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus BEAT, Anthony Phillips, Hawkwind, The Tangent, SIx By Six, Whom Gods Destroy, Trifecta and loads more...

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“Life is to be lived, and lived well… there’s a feeling of carpe diem across the whole album”: Big Big Train loaded Grand Tour with intergalactic ambitions

Inspired by journeys across 250 million years, Gregory Spawton and the late David Longdon intended the band’s 12th album to be bigger in scale than anything they’d done before

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“The punk thing happened and all I saw was this skinny guy shouting. Suddenly it was all the rage and they were calling me rude names”: Bewildered and reclusive, Mike Oldfield just wanted to make double albums

He’d recorded Tubular Bells with substandard instruments but later Richard Branson personally delivered a world-class studio to his cottage. It still took Oldfield over 40 years to make sense of his original vision

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“A lot of it is first takes and demos. Because of what had happened to Neil we didn’t want to re-record – the songs felt too precious”: Rush fans had to wait 11 years for Vapor Trails to become the album it deserved to be

After tragedy shattered drummer Neil Peart’s life, many were just glad to have their 17th studio album in 2002. But it left almost everyone disappointed at the time

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New three-disc compilation highlights the best of psych and prog on the Decca and Deram labels

PSYCH! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues 1966-1973 will be released on June 21

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“I was side-of-stage and said, ‘You’ve literally just written that, and you’re going to perform it?’ It was a beautiful rendition… much better than on the album!” The Wilson & Wakeman comedy duo get serious(ish)

Arena and Black Sabbath men’s bond of brotherhood is full of laughs, but latest album Can We Leave The Light On Longer? manages to deal with deeply personal issues

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“We were both big ELP fans, and I’m sure if you look at our record collections back then you’d have seen Yes, Greenslade, King Crimson…” How electronic music duo Underworld grew up with a world of prog

No one would call dance outfit Underworld a prog band. But they grew up influenced by the whole genre, it appears

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Cool new proggy sounds you really must hear from Richard Henshall, Evergrey, Reliqa, Rendezvous Point and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great prog you really should check out from Circuline, Grice, Shumaun and more..

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"It’s a responsibility but also a privilege to share this same kind of consciousness with new generations of people." The fantastic return of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

The story of the Italian prog legends Banco del Mutuo Soccorso return after 25 years with new album Transiberiana

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“The producer was able to see through me to be like, ‘You don’t sound like you believe any of this.’ I love that psychology”: District 97’s Leslie Hunt took singing lessons before she tracked Stay For The Ending

Chicago outfit’s prog and pop balancing act benefitted from listening to their fans – and Bill Bruford

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“Nothing was too crazy. Nothing was too outrageous. Once we had a beautiful part, we thought we should make it evil and disturbing”: Powered by red wine and bored with prog metal, Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt made Storm Corrosion their way

Porcupine Tree and Opeth leaders’ 2012 collaboration wasn't what many people thought it would be – instead it was something more experimental which they described as “organic pagan minimalism”

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Awesome new prog you really should hear from Trifecta, Eivør, Oh Hiroshima and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds you really should check out from Outrun The Sunlight, Lowen, The Twenty Committee and more..

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“I didn’t even speak English but I could tell Operation: Mindcrime had atmosphere and intelligence… You can’t just replace Geoff Tate with someone who has a great range”: Tobias Sammet says classic Queensryche were fully prog

Avantasia mastermind recalls being blown away by Geoff Tate’s vocals – and struggling to copy what he’d heard

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"Our style has always been defined by the fact that we sound a little like Pink Floyd, Genesis and Marillion." Mystery and the making of One Among The Living

Best known as Jon Anderson’s replacement in Yes, Benoît David rejoins cult Canadian proggers Mystery, as they prepare to release the strongest album of their career.

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Cool new prog you realy should hear from Marjana Semkina, Dave Foster Band, Pallbearer and more

Great new proggy sounds you really should check out from Bill Fisher, The Bee Tellers, The Omnific, Daniel Davies and more...

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"At 78-years old, he's lost none of his chops and remains in fine voice." David Gilmour's The Piper Calls - the first review

David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years

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“My role in the black metal scene is probably exaggerated, because I was a visible frontman… In many ways I was just the nerd making music”: Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did

The avant-garde maestro explains why his new, self-titled album is his most definitive, complex and atmospheric release yet

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