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Mew With Danish Chamber Orchestra
VENUE BARBICAN HALL, LONDON DATE 03/04/2024 Rock bands playing with orchestras isn’t always an idea which works. Sometimes the two elements can pull against each other or sit awkwardly, as if on a mismatched blind date. And sometimes the strategy jus
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Moody Blues’ Mike Pinder Dead At 82
Mike Pinder, one of the founding members of The Moody Blues, has died at the age 82. His passing was confirmed by his family and fellow Moodies bandmate John Lodge. Pinder had been the last surviving founding member of the band. Drummer Graeme Edge p
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Q&A CHARLIE BRAMALD
Since joining Ghost Of The Machine in 2022, Yorkshire-based vocalist Charlie Bramald has kept himself busy. He’s also released music with ambient proggers Nova Cascade, alt rock/prog hybrid Shadows On Mercury and Nine Skies, which has helped him leav
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Hfmc Weigh Up Fate And Freedom
For Eternal Snapshots, the fifth studio album from HFMC, out on June 6 via Glassville Records, singer and guitarist Hasse Fröberg was determined to stretch himself as a songwriter. “I wanted to force myself to write lyrics in a new way,” he says. “Th
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Progressive Folk
Winter McQuinn has a varied CV: Aussie psych pop soft rocker, double Bachelor of Music graduate, frontman of Melbourne area pop candy quintet Sunfruits, freelance publicist at Third Eye Stimuli Records or co-founder of environmental music organisatio
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The Beat Goes On
When King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp leaked curious details of BEAT in spring 2024, more than a few eyebrows were raised. The project celebrates King Crimson’s 80s albums Discipline (1981), Beat (1982) and Three Of A Perfect Pair (1984). Think o
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And Last But Not Least
Multifaceted Argentinian artist Gabriel Agudo has sung regularly for The Steve Rothery Band, and the favour’s returned on his ambitious second solo album. Tales & Thunders (bit.ly/GabrielAgudo) is an engaging selection of modern prog songs embracing
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Red And Me: David Cross
In 2023 the David Cross Band released Ice Blue, Silver Sky, which aside from a collection of original material also featured two King Crimson numbers the violinist had a hand in writing, Exiles from Larks’ Tongues In Aspic and Starless. The latter tr
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Myrath
Zaher Zorgati and Kevin Codfert – the singer and the keyboardist producer respectively of Tunisian prog metellars Myrath – are laughing loud and long, incredulous at the cliché that bands make music for themselves and if anyone else likes it then“it’
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PROG PRESENTS… Discovering
A story that began at the legendary Marquee Club in London’s Wardour Street has finally arrived at the chapter where Prog writer Martin Kielty describes Solstice as “the band they were always meant to be”. With the beguiling presence of vocalist Jess
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Now Our Turn…
Jerry Ewing BILL FISHER How To Think Like A Billionaire SEPTAPHONIC RECORDS Russell Fairbrother KEVIN KASTNING & MARK WINGFIELD Rubicon II GREYDISC RECORDS Natasha Scharf CALEB LANDRY JONES Hey Gary, Hey Dawn SACRED BONES Christopher Sampson JOHNNY C
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Art Rock
It’s been 35 years since German post-punk pioneers Xmal Deutschland’s last album, but Codes (Sacred Bones), the comeback of singer/frontwoman Anja Huwe, is fresh and thrilling. Proudly dramatic, and often using bilingual spoken-word techniques, it co
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Red And Me: Jakko Jakszyk
“In 1974 I was 16 years old and I briefly worked in the record department of WH Smith’s on Watford High Street. The albums arrived in large boxes and I used to unpack them. I knew the release dates of various records and so I knew that when those box
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S* A* S*
Whatever you choose to call it: “difficult second album syndrome” or “sophomore slump”, it remains a threatening, hovering spectre for bands that have created cracking debut records. Whether caused by a lack of suitable songs or a psychological dread
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Fad Gadgets
Between 1996 and 2011, Danish highend firm Bang & Olufsen produced the Beosound 9000, a beautiful (and expensive) six-CD changer, which you could mount on the wall and show off proudly to your guests. With the growing enthusiasm for physical media an
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Justin Hayward Extends The Blue World Tour
Justin Hayward has announced a run of seven additional UK dates this autumn as part of his ongoing The Blue World tour, which includes two shows in Scotland – his first dates north of the border in five years. Joining him on the tour are guitarist Mi
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Where Words Are Not (Always) Needed
On 2020’s These Are Not Your Dreams, Australian post-rock trio Sleepmakeswaves threw caution to the wind. Swerving producers and deadlines, they did things on their own terms. For a band that guitarist Otto Wicks-Green says are “always learning”, tha
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Spriggan Mist
VENUE THE 1865, SOUTHAMPTON DATE 24/03/2024 SUPPORT THE WOOD DEMONS Few bands would enlist a world-champion kickboxer to lead their pre-gig routine, but it’s all part of Spriggan Mist’s unique approach. As the headliners limber up backstage with Kloe
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Shifting Gear
The last time Prog spoke to Wheel, the future looked bright. The Anglo-Finnish band were about to release their second album, Resident Human, and frontman James Lascelles seemed in good spirits as he discussed mindfulness and the benefits of yoga and
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Win! Carl Palmer Box Set
He’s best known for his role in Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s iconic sound. Now drummer Carl Palmer’s work is celebrated with his own career-defining box set, Fanfare For The Common Man. We have a copy to give away to a lucky reader this month. The three-
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Red And Me: Pat Mastelotto
“I first saw King Crimson at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in June 1974. They opened for Ten Years After. They played a short set, but they played Starless. I know because I left with the bass riff and the coda going through my head for weeks after
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Final Coil
FINAL COIL WAS originally a solo project born from the mind of multi-instrumentalist Phil Stiles back in 2002, but it didn’t remain a one-man band for long. After meeting guitarist Richard Awdry through a mutual friend, the duo wrote and recorded som
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Soul Trader
Last year Oliver Wakeman’s record label politely pointed out that he hadn’t made an album of his own for a long, long time. He was taken aback; to him it felt like he’d barely stopped releasing music. There was Collaborations – the 2022 box set featu
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Far From Normal
“I have to be honest with you, I’m not really a prog musician,” confesses Nick Beggs. That’s a disarming proclamation from a musician who has played with Steven Wilson, Steve Hackett, led the prog power trio The Mute Gods, and who recently filled in
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Chelsea Wolfe
VENUE HEAVEN, LONDON DATE 02/04/2024 SUPPORT MAUD THE MOTH Chambered within old brick arches, Heaven resembles more of an ancient tomb than the setting for one of London’s most vibrant LGBTQ+ nightclubs, its shadowy structure befitting the ever-myste
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Kris Barras
“It was their guitarist, Tony MacAlpine, who first drew me in, although Brett Garsed, who was the guitarist on their last album, Quantum, is a player that I’ve loved as well. From about the age of 15 and into my early 20s, I had this thing where I go
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Plantoid
IT TOOK PLANTOID three moves around the UK – from Lincoln to London to Brighton – for roots to form, to find a supportive record label, and for their career to blossom further. Although the bandmembers are still young in age, theirs is certainly not
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The Last Dinner Party
(Island/Universal, 2024) In 2022, a five-piece group called The Dinner Party were lauded by mainstream media as the new saviours of pop, a theatrical Queen-Kate Bush hybrid for Gens Z and Alpha. Signed to a major label, they’d supported The Rolling S
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