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"The key to the band's sound is that all the guys in the band are really into progressive rock..." Magic Pie beat a case of writer's block to make sixth album Maestro

Norwegian proggers (with an Icelandic singer) Magic Pie dialled up the heavy rock quota on 2025's Maestro, their first new album for six years

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“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

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“The cycle of album-tour-album-tour is dying. It’s long been dead at our end of the scale”: This prog band took a risk to escape broken music industry models. So far, it’s paying off

Anglo-Welsh quintet wrote enough material for a double album, but that’s not the format it’s being released in. Have they found a way to break the mould?

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“Music, art, death, time – they’re all part of the same thing. I can’t articulate it. I’m just some stoned goofball with a guitar”: How Gong became more Gong than ever with latest album Bright Spirit

The most stable line-up in the band’s six-decade history have completed their first trilogy, with new spiritual insight and an old but well-loved guitar style borrowed from Syd Barrett

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“I used Steven Wilson’s Mellotron in exchange for me guesting at his London Palladium show!”: Prog pioneers Soft Machine spared no effort on their new album, then took a risk by calling it Thirteen

Theo Travis on tempting fate, revisiting a tradition, being the best-tempered line-up since the beginning in 1966, and adding a posthumous appearance by co-founder Daevid Allen

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“Sounds of the universe crying”: This pop icon’s label wanted a pop solo album. He gave them a prog record instead. Which is why they suppressed it for three years

Maybe the fact that King Crimson’s Robert Fripp had been hired to produce and play on the 1977 project was enough to scare the suits

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“I was as surprised as anybody else. I said, ‘Who’s playing the harmonica?’ Dave said, ‘You are!’” What happened when Be-Bop Deluxe founder Bill Nelson formed an improv trio with Soft Machine and Gong members

The prog polymath felt Orchestra Futura’s performances should be left as one-off experiences. But Theo Travis and Dave Sturt persuaded him to release Live At Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall

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“I really wanted to help. But if I’m honest I was just crap. I couldn’t pull it off”: It Bites ex Francis Dunnery abandoned Asia after one show. He’s stopped trying to please everybody

Robert Plant and Santana collaborator reveals complaints about his recent DVDs, the possibility of revisiting his 80s heyday, and why it was time to explore his difficult childhood on new album England’s Tales Of The Council House Kid

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Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, A.A. Williams, Devin Townsend, Tarja and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new prog from VMBRA, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Lost In Kyiv and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from The Anchoress, Matt Berry, Magenta, Soen and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

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"Her voice was the signature sound of Clannad and will live on forever." Singer Moya Brennan has died, aged 73

Former Irish president Michael D Higgins is among those paying tribute to the late Clannad singer Moya Brennan

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“I listen now and think, ‘This is a young man’s game!’ I’m proud of the albums”: How future members of Marillion, Soft Machine and Caravan got their start via Darryl Way’s Wolf

The violinist’s post Curved Air band only lasted two years, but released three compelling albums in that time, and set his colleagues on course for prog greatness

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Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Einar Solberg, Evergrey, MONO, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog from Argovia, School Disco, Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, Port Noir and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! Rush have assumed control of the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Anthony Phillips, Richard Barbieri, Magenta, Spock's Beard, Steve Hillage, Einar Solberg, Green Carnation, Major Parkinson and more...

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“It was the first keyboard solo I’d heard on the radio for a very long time”: The Marillion song that proves Mark Kelly’s genius, by Adam Wakeman

Ozzy, Sabbath and Purple contributor says Fish and co were the first prog band he beyond dad Rick’s work with Yes

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“Someone put toilet paper in my back pocket and set fire to it. I sat in the sink and fell asleep. The soundtrack to that night was Gong!” How Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway got into prog

Vocalist believes there’s a strong and clear link between his band and Gong: their weirdness

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Excellent proggy sounds you must hear from Bruce Soord, Exploring Birdsong, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

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“Somebody said I was the ice queen, because I just didn’t move on stage – I was terrified!” The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches

She’d had no plans for a life in music, but wound up working with some of the biggest names of the 60s folk resurgence

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“I said, ‘It’s more interesting to just hint. We don’t want to give the game away”: The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing

TV creative used to hire Steven Wilson to make ad music. In the late 90s they wrote a film together. They’re still waiting to make it

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“There was a lot of pain. My love for music was beginning to die”: He’d learned to let his brother be lead guitarist, and that many musicians lose hope. Then he changed his life, wrote a 15-minute prog epic and got signed

The American’s memories of seeing Yes, Black Sabbath and Grand Funk Railroad helped save him from despair – as did seeing his sibling play like Eddie Van Halen before Eddie did himself

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