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17-disc Soft Machine box set, Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974, due in October

Mammoth new Soft Machine box set the most comprehensive anthology of the band ever released

Louder · Aug 26

“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

Louder · May 14

Reckonwrong: How Long Has It Been? review – wonky delight with shades of Arthur Russell and Robert Wyatt

Londoner Alex Peringer breaks from his intriguing and outlandish dance music with this debut album of charming bedroom-pop ballads

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10

“The sound universe that Soft Machine opened before me was almost unfathomable. It was a revelation, a musical epiphany”: Meet the Canterbury scene’s international next generation

The seeds of The Wilde Flowers have taken root all around the world. Here are just a handful of 21st-century musicians taking inspiration from the 60s and 70s

Louder · Sep 19, 2025

“We were playing things like Chuck Berry. I was just horrified, because I’m a choirboy”: How Richard Sinclair helped build the Canterbury scene with Caravan, Hatfield And The North, Camel and more

He shares memories of Pye Hastings, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Andy Latimer and many other collaborators from his rich heritage, soon to be include with his long, long awaited debut solo album

Louder · Aug 26, 2025

What is known about the search for a former US soldier suspected of killing 4 at a Montana bar

The manhunt for a former U.S. soldier suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar has stretched into a fourth day with no capture

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2025

Montana shooting victims named as manhunt for suspect continues

Suspected gunman still at large and possibly armed after four people were fatally shot at a bar in Anaconda on Friday

The Guardian - US · Aug 3, 2025

"I felt out of place. That group didn't have much musical merit and I thought it was crap": The oddball career of Kevin Ayers, quintessential English songwriter

Kevin Ayers co-founded Soft Machine, influenced Bowie, shared acid trips and girlfriends with Hendrix, and knew Syd Barrett better than most

Louder · Jul 31, 2025

“There was a sense that the record was the definitive music, and you were to reproduce that night after night. It became boring”: Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting prog influences Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk

Decades after playing to 80,000 people a night with Wang Chung, the Canterbury artist went wild on Epigonal Quark, with help from Syd Arthur and others

Louder · Jul 27, 2025

"It's got the filthiest tenor saxophone solo ever." Blur guitarist Graham Coxon reveals the prog rock song that changed his life

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon was a progressive rock fan as a teenager, and one song in particular captured his imagination

Louder · Mar 17, 2025