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“I listen to pop music with headphones so intensely, like I’m studying the Torah… I love the ear-candy stuff!” You might find a hint of Olivia Rodrigo on the new Pattern-Seeking Animals album (and a mildly controversial sax solo too)

Spock’s Beard offshoot’s John Boegehold hates bonus CDs, which is one reason you’ll also find hints of older music on Spooky Action At A Distance

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“Everything from Between The Buried And Me to Duran Duran. There doesn’t seem to be a distinct barrier in terms of what we believe we can funnel into Kyros." The sound of UK prog rockers Kyros and new album Mannequin

Pop-friendly, shape-shifting prog quartet Kyros discuss their fourth album Mannquein

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Great new prog from sleepmakeswaves, Beatrix Players, Dim Gray and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds to check out from Rendezvous Point, The Casimir Connection, Waxamilion and more...

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“There have never been fisticuffs in this band… Just tense silences”: How Supertramp made the classic Breakfast In America

They were more likely to go out for dinner than indulge in drugs and groupies - but that didn’t stop their 1979 album becoming the second-biggest selling prog album of all time

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“I’m doing that thing that many may find tasteless but hopefully at least some may find thrilling… it’s not about control – it’s pure animal!” Why Steve Hackett ramped up the guitar attack on The Circus And The Nightwhale

On his 30th solo album, he decided to address a wide range of personal issues he’d wanted to tackle for years – taking in influence from The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Odyssey and Pinocchio

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"It’s a maths geek’s love song to maths!" The story of Van der Graaf Generator's A Grounding In Numbers

Van der Graaf Generator's third reunion album, 2011's A Grounding In Numbers saw the trio working with shorter form but no less complex material

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“We weren’t really sure if we could keep being a band – it was very hard to be motivated to remain”: The desperate meetings that saved Caligula’s Horse from self-destruction

Guitarist Sam Vallen explains Charcoal Grace is a deliberately dark record so the band could leave their own darkness behind

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“Their sense of adventure has never been up for debate; their progressive ambitions are a perpetual undercurrent”: These songs prove Radiohead are prog

From spanning musical styles to blending odd time signatures, the band have always been restlessly creative

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“It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog

The guiding light of NWOBHM geeks out on Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis, covering Jethro Tull but not wanting to meet Ian Anderson, the length of ELP solos, his struggle to get into Marillion and more

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"We like to keep the fans on their toes, and we like to keep ourselves on our toes too." The story of Between The Buried & Me's Automata concept albums

US prog metallers Between The Buried & Me Automata concept albums were so complex the band released them as two separate discs

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“Why is writing your own material such an obsession for so many people? They should be grateful we don’t write songs. They’d be terrible”: Manfred Mann has no time for his own back catalogue

Bandleader insists he’s not prog and he’s never made a classic album - but he knows what he’s good at, and he still loves doing it

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There are only 250 worldwide, so get yours while you can!

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Killer new prog from John Carpenter, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Exist and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog sounds to check out from Teiger, Lauri Porra, Ivanhoe, Day Before Tomorrow and more...

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“People don’t realise the depth and diversity on the rest of the material. If you’re a Yes or Genesis devotee, this band should be on your radar”: Kansas’ image problem means even a future member struggled to discover them

Zak Rizvi – a driving force for the band’s two most recent albums – once thought they were a southern rock or country rock band, until he dug deeper than Carry On Wayward Son and Dust In The Wind and found their prog roots

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Tangerine Dream's Phaedra at 50 is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Chester Thompson, Big Big Train, Stackridge, Bill Nelson, The Pineapple Thief, Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman and loads more...

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“I would love to have been part of some of those great later pieces… But the price you pay is that some people’s lives are not happy”: What if Anthony Phillips hadn’t left Genesis?

Dispelling some of the myths surrounding his departure, the driving force of the formative days shares his theory on how the band might have collapsed anyway

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“We’re prog rock without the solos”: Experimental sounds, non-linear arrangements and big, conceptual ideas would seem to prove Guy Garvey is right about his band Elbow

Loved by many in the prog community – less so among purists – the lead singer talks about his love of the genre and where his band fit in

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“There was an amazing synergy. The longest single session was 72 hours. We fed the engineer speed pills… we’d scramble to write lyrics then pluck vocal harmonies out of the air”: How Nektar’s ambition and effort gave the world Remember The Future

The Bluebird character was invented at the same time by different creatives, a technical issue nearly killed off the recorded musical energy – and drugs fuelled almost every aspect of the production. But the resulting environment-themed epic was worth all the hard graft

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"When we do progressive rock, there’s no rules – we just keep writing, keep putting together whatever parts we like." How The Flower Kings made By Royal Decree

Now the dust has settled on Transatlantic’s long-awaited comeback, Roine Stolt is back with his main band, The Flower Kings and their new double album By Royal Decree

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"It's a celebration that we’re still alive and we’re still going and hopefully there’s still light at the end of the tunnel." The story of Marillion and An Hour Before It's Dark

Six years on from FEAR beingreleased during a time of political turmoil, and yet nothing could have prepared Marillion for the challenges they’d face in making its follow-up

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“We were spoofing the idea of the concept album, but in a fun way that didn’t totally mock it… It’s only in recent times that I’ve appreciated how complex the music is”: Why Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick needed to be serious - and a send-up

Ian Anderson set out to make “the mother of all concept albums” while incorporating a large measure of Monty Python - but some people laughed at all the wrong places

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"We had a ‘no filter’ rule on this album: make it as crazy as you want." Haken and the story of Fauna

On their seventh studio album, Haken are ready to bust any pre-conceptions about where they might or might not fit musically.

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"We’re not a band that writes about fast cars, hot chicks and partying." How Queensrÿche got their prog metal groove back with The Verdict

Seven years into their reinvention with Todd La Torre at the front, the new, rebuilt Queensrÿche are stronger than ever before. But with album number 15, they haven’t lost sight of their past.

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Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Von Hertzen Brothers, Jane Weaver, RicharD Thompson and more...

Cool new prog sounds to check out from Jane Getter Premonition, Whom Gods Destroy, Aisles and more...

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Enslaved announce Jo Quail will perform Congelia with them at London's opening night of their latest tour

Prog cellist Jo Quail will join Norwegian prog metallers Enslaved at their Islington Assembly Hall show on March 6

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