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"We were just looking for a hit. And we heard the beginnings of a new kind of sound": Inspired by Australian pubs and riding a wave of optimism, Simple Minds made the album that sent them soaring

As the 80s dawned, Simple Minds were in crisis. But, believing that life was without limits, they recorded the album New Gold Dream and the dream became reality

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"My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamourous": Miley Cyrus says her upcoming album was inspired by Pink Floyd

Miley Cyrus has proved once again that she has good taste

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“You see this thing on people's faces, this awakening moment, when they're going, There's a possibility here.” David Gilmour recalls the exact moment Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett tribute Shine On You Crazy Diamond was born in a scuzzy London rehearsal room

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour reflects upon the genesis of one of his band's most iconic songs, Shine On You Crazy Diamond

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"It was an opening into a world of rock 'n' roll, sleaze, sexuality, drugs, violence and danger." They might sound worlds apart, but The Smiths wouldn't have existed without The Stooges, the US punks who made Johnny Marr's favourite record of all time

In 1976, Manchester schoolboy Johnny Marr purchased a punk rock album that would change his life forever

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Genesis announce 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

New Dolby ATMOS mix of The Lamb... overseen by Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks at Real World Studios

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“We didn’t consider ourselves prog, but people said, ‘Hey, come and play our prog festival”: How Meer fought back from a disastrous start to deliver victorious third album Wheels Within Wheels

Norwegians didn’t make things easy for themselves by forming as an octet, while one member tried to avoid their natural musical tendencies; but thanks to the European prog community they’re riding high at last

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"We’re so excited to show you what we’ve been working on." Horsegirl announce new album Phonetics On and On, share first single 2468, reveal US tour plans

Chicago indie trio announce follow-up to 2022's acclaimed Versions of Modern Performance

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Jethro Tull share new 2024 remix of Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow

A five-disc The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas will be released in December

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Mrs. Henry have crafted one of this year's most epic rock albums with the 38-track rock opera spectacular Keep On Rising

Keep On Rising is a three-part concept rock opera that fans of Kiss, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Meat Loaf and more will adore

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“Pink Floyd weren’t available. Jon Lord turned it down. So it came my way”: Roger Glover made an unexpected success of the soundtrack to a movie that never happened – but was it prog?

Having recently quit Deep Purple, the bassist was looking for a new challenge in 1973. It came in the form of The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast, featuring notable prog guest stars

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"If God gets in his way he'll burn the heavens down": Tommy Henriksen's track-by-track guide to Crossbone Skully's Evil World Machine

Evil World Machine is the debut album by Crossbone Skully, formed by Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires guitarist Tommy Henriksen

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"We weren’t fiddling around and wondering what to do, we were going to nail this sucker": Steve Howe names the best record he's ever made

Yes guitarist Steve Howe picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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"I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it": Legendary soul singer Al Green has covered R.E.M.'s classic Everybody Hurts

Al Green's gospel version of Everybody Hurts is out now via Fat Possum

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The official Fleetwood Mac documentary will shine a light on their music as well as the band's "chaotic and almost operatic personal lives"

The as-yet-untitled Fleetwood Mac film will include previously unseen footage and new interviews with the surviving band members

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"I was so traumatised by the music industry, severely depressed. To have the thing you love destroyed by other people is soul-destroying." How Du Blonde quit trying to please toxic men and music business scumbags, and started living her best life

"Being signed to record labels made me fall so out of love with making music that I almost stopped." The music industry needs more artists like Du Blonde, but Du Blonde doesn't need the music industry at all

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Steven Wilson's surprise 2023 Christmas single December Skies to get physical release in December

"I didn’t think I had it in me": Steven Wilson released a surprise Christmas song in 2023 after an unlikely challenge from a friend

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Pre-order our exclusive Mark Wilkinson/Fish t-shirt/signed calendar bundle here

Get a fantastic Mark Wilkinson-designed Fish t-shirt you won’t be able to buy anywhere else, along with a signed Mark Wilkinson The Art Of Fish calendar that comes with issue 155 of Prog, a bespoke front cover

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Lambrini Girls' scathing new single Love is the anthem every person getting out of a toxic relationship needs to hear

Lambrini Girls share the tumultuous new single Love, from their forthcoming debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out

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“We released a single and some fans complained there was too much pop, it was boring and they missed the odd time signatures … The funny thing is, the verse is in 13/8!” Leprous continue to be progressive even if it doesn’t seem to be prog

Latest album Melodies Of Atonement sees the Norwegians continuing to strip back and seek catchier elements of themselves – including taking influence from hip-hop

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Watch all of If These Trees Could Talk's headline slot from this year's Portals Festival

Ohio's instrumental post-rockers If These Trees Could Talk played their very first UK performance at this year's Portals Festival

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"Music has been boiled down to fifteen-second gimmicks for social media": Tuk Smith wants to return us to a world shaped by weirdos and mavericks, not algorithms

Recording almost everything on his latest album himself and putting it out on his own label, Tuk Smith followed the adage that if you want something doing properly, do it yourself

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“I’m in it to win it.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan enters charity raffle to win Courtney Love's hand-written lyrics for Hole's Violet, a song inspired by Billy Corgan, “a guy I know a little bit about”

Want to beat Billy Corgan to the ownership of lyrics about Billy Corgan, and help a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra at the same time? Of course you do

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"After the uproarious bash which was the 40th anniversary of our first record, Red Roses for Me, we wanted to do it again." The Pogues announce first UK headline tour in 13 years, celebrating 40 years of their classic album Rum Sodomy & the Lash

London-Irish folk-punk group to tour for the first time since the death of former frontman Shane MacGowan

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“John Peel said we were a waste of talent and electricity… It had become de rigueur to knock us”: Emerson Lake & Palmer and the making of Brain Salad Surgery

The prog supergroup were at their creative peak when they created the 1973 epic that took the world by storm, despite the apparent hordes of critics

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Sammy Hagar robbed of $1 million worth of tequila in organised crime double truck heist near Mexican border

Sammy Hagar launched the Santo Spirits brand with celebrity chef Guy Fieri in 2019 - but now the pair are missing 24,240 bottles of tequila

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