The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks The news arrives with just 112 days left until Christmas Louder · Sep 2, 2025
“They asked Kate Bush, ‘Why do you write about this stuff?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m not very interesting!’ It’s the same with us”: What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Opeth, Tool and Rush Frontman of the British metal band and his colleagues accidentally discovered a breadth of influences after feeling uninspired by their peers Metal Hammer · Aug 30, 2025
“Do I ever look at Steven Wilson and think, ‘Why is he having top-five albums and I’m not?’ No”: Tim Bowness found catharsis in exploring forced isolation on Late Night Laments With songs for the lost and the lonely, detailing trauma and loss – but hardly ever his own – Bowness’ intensely personal sixth album is another fine addition to his impressive body of work Louder · Aug 28, 2025
“Geddy Lee once said some very nice things about me. I think it’s about time we connected, if he’s still up for doing something”: Marco Minnemann’s prog world includes Rush, ping-pong and whisky – and he has “something” to thank Queen for The Aristocrats drummer, who’s worked with Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Jordan Rudess and many others, owns up to appreciating Madonna and Kylie Louder · Aug 27, 2025
“Jeff Lynne and Yes are in the music of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Muse. It’s overlooked in theirs but not in mine. I don’t have the self-validation I’d like”: Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support, but he wishes others liked him too Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds Louder · Aug 18, 2025
"Steven Wilson has revealed subtleties hidden for more than 50 years": Deep Purple's Made In Japan - now bigger and better than ever Who cares if this is three years late? The 50th anniversary of Deep Purple’s very best still blows minds Louder · Aug 14, 2025
Steven Wilson and two former Marillion members walked into a band… What went wrong? The mystery of Pride Of Passion, back to try again after 40 years The prog group established a reputation for sold-out killer shows in the 80s, but fizzled out without warning. Now the core members have returned with an EP and an album to follow Louder · Aug 12, 2025
Steven Wilson launches new prog rock radio show on SiriusXM Intrigue: The Progressive Rock Show With Steven Wilson will air monthly on the satellite radio and online streaming service SiriusXM Louder · Aug 7, 2025
“Inventive, unconventional approach sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s”: Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past Reissue series revives the 1972 high-class hodgepodge in a generous, never perfunctory style Louder · Aug 7, 2025
"The whole album shimmers with a sonic gloss that's brought it to the 21st century with no loss of historic integrity..." XTC's third album Drums And Wires gets new Steven Wilson Atmos mix XTC's third album, Drums And Wires, will be released on heavyweight vinyl and CD/Blu-ray in September Louder · Jul 25, 2025
Steven Wilson to release 10th anniversary coloured vinyl double vinyl edition of Hand. Cannot. Erase. Steven Wilson's fourth solo album, 2015's Hand. Cannot. Erase. will be reissued with new audio that has been remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios. Louder · Jul 14, 2025
"You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story Metal Hammer · Jul 2, 2025
“It’s a $20 plugin… I love it because sometimes the problem with digital sounds is they just lack a little bit of character”: Steven Wilson reveals the plugin that's on "almost all" the guitars on his new space rock epic And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For? MusicRadar · Jul 1, 2025
“By the end of it, I struggled a bit. I wasn’t able to be 100% myself playing, because I had to honor the gig, which I did”: Fusion virtuoso Alex Hutchings recalls the pressures of following in Guthrie Govan’s footsteps as Steven Wilson’s guitarist Hutchings, who joined Wilson on his ‘To The Bone’ tour, was previously described by the prog maestro as “a fantastic guitar player” Guitar World · Jun 25, 2025
Louder · Jun 20, 2025 We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia
Louder · Jun 18, 2025 Deep Purple celebrate 50th anniversary of Made In Japan with another mammoth box set Can you believe it's been 11 years since the 40th anniversary celebrations?
Louder · Jun 18, 2025 “It’s not about fame or money. It’s about fulfilling your dreams, and if someone gets joy from it, you’ve won”: Solstice’s 45-year journey to success with their positive prog Latest album Clann is a proud family affair with its roots in the 80s, when leader Andy Glass set an ambitious agenda with no regard for commercial gain
Louder · Jun 10, 2025 “We started out as a Pink Floyd tribute and evolved from that. Artists who claim to be original are lying through their teeth”: Airbag’s Bjørn Riis used classic prog inspirations to chart a nervous breakdown His fifth solo album Fimbulvinter was inspired by Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Black Sabbath and others. He aimed to sound like them without ripping them off
Metal Hammer · Jun 3, 2025 Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up” Prog idol Steven Wilson co-produced Opeth’s Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation albums – Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why he didn’t return for Ghost Reveries
Louder · Jun 1, 2025 “I thought you really had to work to make a song great. That’s actually a load of crap – the best songs I’ve written took 10 minutes”: When The Pineapple Thief began to break through with Someone Here Is Missing Just before their eighth album arrived, Bruce Soord reflected on remixing his back catalogue, learning to keep a distance from fans and the validity of comparisons with Porcupine Tree
Louder · May 22, 2025 Jethro Tull announce six-disc Living In The Past reissue Jethro Tull's newly expanded Living In The Past features Steven Wilson remixes, edits, demos, Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 and four promo films.
Louder · May 22, 2025 “Our style of music has an in for a type of personality like Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp – let’s call it the ‘control freak madman’”: How Caligula’s Horse searched for a new direction and new message with Rise Radiant Guitarist, writer and producer Sam Vallen was as surprised as anyone else when a bid to avoid making another concept album resulted in a record with an underlying – and refreshingly positive – theme
Louder · May 22, 2025 Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets release new Steven Wilson ATMOS mix of Echoes Pink Floyd's 23-minute 1972 epic Echoes was introduced into the Saucerful of Secrets live set in 2022
Louder · May 19, 2025 “The world was my oyster, but when I opened it there was a turd inside… When my wife said, ‘I want half of everything,’ I said, ‘Write me a cheque for 450 grand and you can have half the debt!’” Fish on his three-decade solo career As the former Marillion frontman released final album Weltschmerz, he reflected on going from the depths of debt and divorce to mountainous creative peaks
The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2025 Steven Wilson review – an interstellar sound voyage with Floydian grandeur On his first solo tour in seven years, Wilson transports a rapt audience through three hours of prog, bubbling electronica and time-bending post-rock bliss