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New book documenting the 80s prog scene to be published in June

Mirror Of Dreams is the first of a two volume set on the 80s prog revival, this one covering the years 1981-1983

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“S for Saga, S for Saxon and it landed on Six By Six. Also, we have six arms, six legs, six eyes and and so on...” Welcome to the world of new prog supergroup Six By Six

In 2022 the surprise grouping of Robert Berry, Saga's Ian Crichton and Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler resulted in a fine melodic prog album

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“I didn’t want to record the best progressive album of all time, I just wanted to have fun." How Riverside made ID.Entity

2023's ID.Entity saw Polish prog rockers Riverisde moving into a new phase of their career

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Cool new prog sounds from Lesoir, Ihsahn, Chelsea Wolfe and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week

The week's best new prog music to check out from Midas Fall, The Chronicles Of Father Robin, Final Coil and more...

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"For me, the challenge in doing this long-form concept is for people to not tune out." How Perfect Beings made their fnal album Vier

US prog rockers Perfect Beings created an epic conceptual affair for their third album, Vier. Sadly, it owuld prove to be the band's final offering

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“We prefer to remain free and in control, even if the road is difficult alone. I’m also clear the record industry today is probably no longer interested in groups like ours." The trials of Lazuli and their latest album11

French prog rockers Lazuli tell the story of their eleventh studio album, cunningly titled 11

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“People do albums and say, ‘I just do it for myself’ – that’s absolute rubbish. No one ever really means that”: How Mike Rutherford measures his success

Genesis co-founder’s ‘hobby band’ Mike + The Mechanics had no grand plan – but made an impact anyway

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“We were insisting we’d maintain our own identity, and perform a set before Peter Gabriel joined us onstage… I’m pretty sure that’s what soured the deal!” Happy The Man’s very brief stint as Gabriel’s backing band

The trials and tribulations – sometimes self-induced – of trying to be a prog band in America

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“Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own

When guitarist Scott Black asked his grandmother for a Machine Head album, she bought him Deep Purple’s Machine Head – and so began a journey into mixing folk prog with 70s rock

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“The film is so shocking that as soon as you hear any of the music, you’re thinking about maniacs running around causing havoc”: Mogwai’s favourite progressive movie soundtracks

Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison struggle to keep their list down to five

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Great new prog music you need to hear from Caligula's Horse, North Sea Echoes and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

The week's best new prog music to check out from Per Wiberg, worriedaboutsatan, Today Was Yesterday, Emerald City Council and more...

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“You get a few people that bring notepads and binoculars, but a lot of people find the fun aspect appealing… It’s not prog because it’s silly, it’s not jazz because it’s loud and it’s not rock because it’s weird”: So what are The Aristocrats?

Born of a fun jam in 2011, Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann would rather tell jokes on stage than just take turns playing solos

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“The council turned the power off in the middle of Out Demons Out. We carried on, and David Bowie is happily shouting his head off with me… We both received letters from the council, banning us for life”: Edgar Broughton has mellowed, but not entirely

He’s defended students in court, ordered cops to stop assaulting fans, and played free shows when he was warned against it – and while identifying with the prog genre, he believes he was proto-punk too

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“I think a lot of people are left feeling empty and isolated, with a loss of meaning and purpose. That’s something I felt the need to write about." Myrkur tells the story of Spine

On the follow-up to 2020’s more traditional Folkesange, Myrkur’s Amalie Bruun has created an experimental album of contrasts

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"I was 12 when I heard Roundabout by Yes, and it floored me immediately!" Hasse Froberg's own musical companions

Camel makes life easy, he can't get enough of Todd Rundgren and Yes continue to blow him away! Welcome to Hasse Forgerg's prog world!

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“To me, it was like getting the car back on the road. The fact that we only managed to do about 10 shows before the wheels came off again was a bit of a slap from the gods”: Despite the challenges, Fairport Convention never gave up

Simon Nicol reflects on how British folk prog pioneers Fairport Convention took a career path rather than a short cut to temporary success

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“Prog date? Very much no! You didn’t get too much romance at The Peel, unless you made a financial investment”: The Fierce And The Dead’s Matt Stevens recalls his favourite venue

His music teacher moved him on from Guns N’ Roses to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and, armed with a book about prog, he never looked back

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“He went from piano ballads to freak-out prog in three years. Amazing… You want him to be difficult and hard to understand”: Justin Hawkins on Todd Rundgren

The Darkness lead singer and guitarist chose his prog hero for being radical, eclectic and liking pyramids

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We celebrate the 80s prog revival on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Greg Lake, Yes, Nektar, Francis Dunnery, Moon Safari, Cyan, Tarja, Mariusz Duda, Earthside, Matt Berry and loads more...

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“For all his showmanship, he was first and foremost a composer and musician, making music for the head and the heart”: Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson, Geoff Downes and others pay homage to Keith Emerson

15 classic cuts from the keyboard genius’ career, as loved by the good and the great of prog rock and beyond

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“This one has done better in the first three weeks than our debut did in a year!" The story of Panic Room's Satellite

With their second album under their belts, Welsh prog squad Panic Room are taking bigger and bolder strides and they intend to let nothing whatsoever stand in their way.

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“Genesis was the key to everything really, and also Yes." How Tin Spirits made second album Scorch

The story of the criminally short-loved Swindon prog quartet Tin Spirits' second album, 2014's Scorch

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“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

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That time Prog met Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls!

Listen to the Prog Magazine progcast when we interviewed the legend that is Derek Albion Smalls

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John Dexter Jones discusses Jump's return to live action

UK prog rockers Jump will play at next year's Winter's End and A New Day Festivals

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