"The haters won’t stop us from doing what we do": Geoff Downes on Asia's new lineup and the band's future plans The Geoff Downes-led new lineup of Asia play the band’s first three albums, one per night, in April Louder · Mar 28, 2025
‘We joke about who’s getting their knees done’: the rock veterans still touring into their late 70s Yoga and ice baths have replaced all-nighters, but musicians such as Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Rick Wakeman and Elkie Brooks aren’t planning to retire any time soon The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2025
Mhairi Black: The independent Scotland I want to see will not happen via Holyrood MHAIRI Black is smiling when she arrives for our interview. She looks happy, energetic and confident. There’s no need to ask how she’s feeling… The National (Scotland) · Mar 7, 2025
“We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland He once gatecrashed Chris Squire’s dressing room because he knew nothing about concerts. Later, when his own band were at their proggiest, he took everything he could out of opening on Yes’ Relayer tour of 1974 Louder · Mar 4, 2025
“It was awkward – Yes sort of told me never to come back”: Oliver Wakeman had to tour with the prog progenitors while knowing he’d been replaced. Surprisingly, he genuinely enjoyed the trip If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks Louder · Feb 26, 2025
“People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today Louder · Feb 20, 2025
"I could have said a few words if Rick Wakeman would have shut up": Bill Bruford on the "civil war" at the heart of Yes's tumultuous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Bill Bruford looks back on a famously fractious evening Louder · Feb 19, 2025
“Posh tossers singing about nothing because they had nothing to protest about… it was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog – but had to hide it The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear Louder · Feb 19, 2025
King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died aged 82 Jamie Muir, who featured on King Crimson's Lark's Tongues In Aspic before leaving to become a Buddhist monk, has died Louder · Feb 18, 2025
Pro-independence candidates urged to sign declaration ahead of Holyrood election PRO-INDEPENDENCE candidates are being urged to sign a new declaration of agreement in a bid to unite the Yes movement ahead of the Holyrood election. The National (Scotland) · Feb 17, 2025
“She grew up in Russia and bootlegged banned Deep Purple and Scorpions albums. It’s one of the reason I married her”: Kansas’ Joe Deninzon left the USSR and built a musical world out of a surprising coincidence Violinist discovered MTV and never looked back thanks to the influence of Yes, Rush, Zappa – and the band he’d later join Louder · Feb 16, 2025
“A classic style of hopeful, melancholy which will pleasantly trigger Moody Blues fans”: John Lodge’s Love Conquers All EP Yes’ Jon Davison is among the guests as bassist/singer limbers up for a return to the road after suffering a stroke Louder · Feb 14, 2025
Nearly 900 Texas children are waitlisted for a mental health program billed as an alternative to foster care Despite a long waitlist, the number of children served in the YES Waiver program has declined because of provider shortages. The Texas Tribune · Feb 7, 2025
“Their own songs, freed from the dated sonics of their recorded counterparts, benefit most from the live treatment”: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s An Evening Of Yes Music Plus returns in 4-disc set Sound and vision elements of 1989 pay-per-ew show brought together in clamshell Louder · Jan 31, 2025
Louder · Jan 31, 2025 "The sound does not do the band justice": The Yes soap opera reruns on Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe's live An Evening Of Yes Music Plus Yes, no Squire
Louder · Jan 29, 2025 Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks release stunning live version of Yes classic Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People Your Move / I’ve Seen All Good People comes from the upcoming live album Live - Perpetual Change
The National (Scotland) · Jan 29, 2025 Independence cafe to meet in Scottish town as new members join through app A NEW Scottish independence cafe is set to meet in Prestwick tomorrow.
Louder · Jan 25, 2025 "Chris Squire asked me to join Yes. I was extremely flattered." Astonishing revelations from Steve Hackett when we interviewed him about 2019's At The Edge Of Light There were revelations galore about Steve Hackett's twenty-fifth studio album At The Edge Of Light
Louder · Jan 25, 2025 “I got a phone call asking me for a quote about Lennon. Apparently I was one of the last musicians seen talking to him before his death”: Rick Wakeman’s wild tales of John Lennon, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Ozzy Osbourne Playing with Bowie and Sabbath,. boozing with Keith Moon, hanging out with Lennon – Rick Wakeman has done it all
Louder · Jan 16, 2025 “He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson The brief encounter wasn’t what anyone could have predicted – but it was enough to give the younger singer a tantalising idea.
Louder · Jan 15, 2025 Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way New version of Close To The Edge features Steven Wilson mixes and entire London Rainbow show from December 1972
Guitar World · Jan 15, 2025 “Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades
Louder · Jan 11, 2025 “They said, ‘Uh, okay!’ They didn’t know what I was talking about – and in a way, neither did I”: How William Shatner learned to love prog and make an all-star album with all the humanity of classic Star Trek Knowing some people would never get over the novelty, Billy Sherwood decided to go for broke with Ponder The Mystery, featuring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Nik Turner, Edgar Froese and others
Louder · Jan 9, 2025 “A lot of bands were bigger than us, but few can claim to have sucha diverse catalogue of music… I know it’s all been worthwhile”: Gryphon’s Dave Oberlé looks back He’s worked with Steve Howe, Wire and Gandalf’s Fist, and even on a metal magazine – but it’s the quirkiness and curiosity of his own band that makes the singer and percussionist most proud
Louder · Jan 8, 2025 Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce further US tour dates for April and May Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks extend their Yes Epics, Classics and More tour throughout Spring