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“I like to be technical, I like to be fast and I like to do intricate things – but it’s always important to have the passion and the feel”: Why Kris Barras loves Planet X

Hard rock band leader explains how Tony MacAlpine influenced him when he wanted to develop his playing and Dream Theater wasn’t doing it for him

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French prog legends Ange's fourth album Émile Jacotey remastered and reissued

Ange's 1975 concept album Émile Jacotey has been remastered and is available on CD

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"They're hitting tired, bored people that want to pull their hair out and paint their face green." The teenage Kate Bush loved punk rock's energy, originality and "guts"

Kate Bush understood the power and potential of punk rock: "A punch is more effective than a look"

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Pure Reason Revolution announce December UK tour dates

Pure Reason Revolution will release brand new album Coming Up To Consciousness in September

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Earliest known Syd Barrett painting to be auctioned

Syd Barrett's 1963 pastel and watercolor Dried Flowers goes up for auction in July

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“I had a great substitute teacher who lent me albums by King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Genesis. He had a prog band called Butt-Crack”: Rikard Sjöblom’s musical world

Big Big Train, Gungfly and Beardfish man once wrote a term paper about the Hammond organ and went on to teach piano in a school

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"Jeff Beck's not here on the planet anymore. So we're gonna do our bit, you know?": Battlesnake are here to save humanity from mediocrity

Judge how Aussie rockers Battlesnake sound by how they look and you’ll be making a big mistake

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"It's crazy how disposable artists are in America. In Europe they treat artists with a ton more respect": Mitch Ryder on his long, schizophrenic career

Mitch Ryder had hits in the 60s and has been making musicsince, but if he had a hit now it would ruin his day

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"Keep on playing the blues somewhere": British blues legend John Mayall dead at 90

A statement confirms John Mayall died at home, surrounded by his family

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“I'm honoured to be here because I always represent peace.” Legendary exercise and clean-living advocate Snoop Dogg to run with the Olympic torch in Paris

Snoop Dogg is getting lit ahead of the Olympic Games

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“The audience were either totally mesmerized or totally disgusted.” The night that Hüsker Dü played a single note for 35 minutes as an encore

Hüsker Dü liked to challenge their audience: their one note encore in Oklahoma has passed into punk rock lore

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"While I made the album alone, the bassist and drummer fell out with each other": The Tangent's Andy Tillison wound up arguing with himself as he created To Follow Polaris

When circumstance presented the opportunity to face a challenge that had always intrigued him, the prog mastermind embraced it fully. But what will happen when his bandmates return?

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“Finding old forgotten images from shoots done long ago has been a joy, it’s like finding treasures from a different time.” Legendary photographer Scarlet Page announces London exhibition, 30

London gallery to host iconic images by music photographer Scarlet Page, for free-to-the-public exhibition

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“You don't have to try and act cool: just be yourself and that's cool as ****.” Watch Joey Valence & Brae's joyously nostalgic video for Packapunch featuring Danny Brown

Joey Valence & Brae kick it old school with Danny Brown on the infectious Packapunch

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Andy Tillison announces 'fan-only' To Follow Polaris companion album

The Tangent's Andy Tillison is reworking early Parallel Or 90 Degrees material for the new project

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Peter Hammill announces Italian live dates for November

Van der Graaf frontman Peter Hammill will also play two live dates in Athens in Janaury 2025

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“I’m not a classical composer… but with a 16-piece orchestra you get a big lift that you can’t reproduce on anything else”: When Andy Mackay took Roxy Music tracks on a new journey

The Roxy Music saxophonist reflects back on an eclectic career...

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"She said she wouldn't do it with anybody except Mike Tyson": The improbable story of Joan Jett's strangest photoshoot

In 1987 Joan Jett and boxer Mike Tyson appeared together on the cover of a fashion magazine – and the story is even stranger than you think

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"Murder and mayhem never had their way, though the potential was there": A story of Moby Grape, chaos and courtrooms, acid trips and white witches

Moby Grape had it all, and were poised to be the next truly great band. Then came the rip-offs, the drugs, the madness, and the loss of everything

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Jon Bon Jovi masterminded one of the biggest and biggest-selling bands of his era, and became one of its biggest rock stars. But there's more – so much more

"There was no Plan B in my life, ever" - Jon Bon Jovi

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Moby Grape co-founder and guitarist Jerry Miller dead at 81

Jerry Miller played guitar with every iteration of Moby Grape, and was an influence on Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton

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“I thought Syd could do no wrong. It’s so sad that he couldn’t continue with the fever he started with. ” Why David Bowie was “passionately in love with” Syd Barrett and took huge influence from his “magical" time in Pink Floyd

"His impact on my thinking was enormous." David Bowie on Syd Barrett

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"The absolute best vehicle for communicating our emotions is through the medium of stories, imagery and fantasy." The story of young UK proggers Azure

How young Brighton prog metallers Azure ended up winning Prog's Best Unsigned Band category in the 2021 reades' poll

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“I loved Yes – but for me every eight-minute Yes song could have been four two-minute singles!” It might have taken a while to admit it, but XTC know they were prog

Emerging in the punk era, they were described as “too clever, “too quirky” and even as “prunk,” but Andy Partridge’s account of the band’s inspiration and motivation makes the truth crystal clear

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Kevin Parker gives update on new Tame Impala album: "I think it’ll be there, soon...I’m loving how excited I am by it"

The follow up to 2020's The Slow Rush is currently in the works, as frontman Kevin Parker offers new update and reflects on Glastonbury performance with Dua Lipa

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