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Former Rockpile star Dave Edmunds is critically ill in hospital following a major cardiac arrest

“The risk of yet another major cardiac arrest is high. And if that occurs, there is no chance for Dave,” writes the musician’s wife

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“Shall we go for one? Three is the magic number!”: what it's like to spend a day in the pub with Liam Gallagher

A Louder writer did his professional duty and spent seven hours in the boozer with the Oasis frontman in Christmas week, and it was glorious.

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“Removing the skits that appeared throughout the original allows the beauty of the strange, baroque pop to shine through”: Giles Giles & Fripp album returns with Brondesbury Tapes demo collection

Recordings rom 1967 and 1968 provide a satisfying overview of pre-Crimson Robert Fripp

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“He picks his tools up and strikes the living crap out of himself with them. There was blood flying everywhere”: How a street musician who played with Frank Zappa inspired one of grunge’s greatest songs

Inspiration came from an unlikely place for one of the biggest 90s grunge hits

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"Prince looked at me like I had five heads." Legendary US film director Spike Lee reveals what happened when he cheekily asked Prince to gift him one of his iconic bespoke guitars

If you don't ask, you don't get

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“As well as delighting fans, it may surprise the curious with its accessibility and tunefulness”: Discipline’s Breadcrumbs, their first album in eight years

US veterans’ latest work is given analogue warmth by Rush collaborator Terry Brown

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King Crimson announce In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard reissues to be released in October

Both King Crimson's 1970 releases In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard to be reissued on two-disc sets and with Lizard on heavyweight vinyl too

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“Someone said, ‘This is what happens when the chess club kids don’t get their heads flushed down the loo enough!’ I liked that”: When Public Service Broadcasting’s geek chic took them all the way to the Moon

By the time they released The Race For Space, J Willgoose Esq and Wrigglesworth – then still a duo – were ready to accept their prog credentials

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Cardiacs announce that their final album, LSD, will be released in September

The late Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith's final album has been completed by his brother Jim, Kavus Torabi, Mike Vennart and more...

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It's in the trees. It's coming! We celebrate 40 years of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Prog 162 also features Mike Oldfield, Dave Cousins, Bioscope, Peter Giles, Auri, Nosound, Jump, the new Canterbury sound and loads more...

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"The stage is set like a castle and we all ride out on horses": Six things you need to know about Battlesnake

They dig chaos, bombast and the Bible’s stories, and their name is Battlesnake

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"Bursting with heart and character": De'Wayne's June is the sound of a musician with grand ambitions

Eclectic Texan rocker De'Wayne thinks big on third album June

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Mike Oldfield's The Orchestral Hergest Ridge to be released in September

A 1975 performance of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge from Kelvin Hall in Glasgow is to be released on CD

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Public Service Broadcasting announce remix album, Night Flight (The Last Flight Remixes)

Conceptual pop proggers Public Service Broadcasting's new Night Flight (The Last Flight Remixes) will be released in October

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Steve Howe to release Portraits Of Bob Dylan and Natural Timbre on vinyl for the very first time

Steve Howe's Portraits Of Bob Dylan and Natural Timbre arfe reissued on CD and vinyl in September

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"It's a rocket ship and you're just strapped to it, praying to God that you're going to survive": A Thousand Horses on their wild ride and a move back to "the southern rock thing"

Southern rockers A Thousand Horses have just kicked off a UK tour, and are currently “making A Thousand Horses rock record”

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"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

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Watch Doctor Who and The Thick Of It legend Peter Capaldi perform a surprise cover of one of The Cure's best-loved songs at his first ever solo show

Watch former punk rocker and acting legend Peter Capaldi channel his inner Robert Smith at hometown gig in Glasgow

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“Various line-ups sprang into existence just because someone said, ‘I’ll be your guitarist – I’ve got money.’ They felt like drunken shags. I gave in, but I hated myself for it”: When Robert John Godfrey rebuilt The Enid after 21 wasted years

The release of Journey’s End in 2010 found the symphonic rock pioneer more content and focused than he’d been in decades, and ready to take the blame for previous misdemeanours

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“This well-dressed man walked out on stage, reached inside of his jacket, pulled out a gun, and goes pop-pop-pop. I’m thinking: ‘Oh, I’m dead’”: The epic story of the rise, fall and resurrection of the original Alice Cooper band

The original Alice Cooper band have reunited for their first album in more than 50 years. This is how it happened

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“People saw us setting up and thought we were a ska band. Then we’d start playing and they’d just get more confused”: How nerd septet Thank You Scientist made the Oops! … I Did It Again of prog rock

Tom Monda explains the importance of humour, the nature of genres and how he plays his band like a piano

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Peter Hammill to release 20-disc The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986 box set in September

Peter Hammill's solo albums for Charisma and Virgin Records have been newly remastered from the original master tapes.

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“She encourages us to ask big questions: Is there a reason to believe in a god? Are art and death aspects of the same experience? Can we just enjoy sex and stop being hung up about it?” Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time

Members of Marillion, King Crimson, Nightwish, Big Big Train and others compile a list of a uniqe artist’s most powerful and persuasive creations

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Fundraiser launched to help pay for Terry Reid's medical treatment as he battles cancer

Terry Reid postponed his upcoming European shows earlier this month

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Big Big Train announce trumpeter Paul Mitchell joins the band on a full-time basis

UK prog rockers Big Big Train bolster their line-up with the full-time addition of trumpeter, vocalist and percussionist Paul Mitchell

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