A band's second album (American: sophomore) is frequently cited as 'difficult' but should it tread the same ground as its predecessor?

By 1974 I’d had over a full year of immersion into progressive rock, a term which wasn’t yet being applied to the genre, though what I...

Sometime in 1978 or 1979 in a Zoology class at Goldsmiths’, fellow students Jo Wallace and Karen Fraser were discussing the use of the...

By this time of the year in 2019, even with a slow start, I’d seen ten gigs and attended Steve Hackett’s The Edge of Light playback,...

The presentation of an album used to be one of the factors I took into account when I was attempting to discover new music at a time when...

Early in the new millennium, when progressive rock was emerging from underneath rocks and dragging itself out of slimy ponds, I...

When did prog emerge? That's one of the great prog questions...

Towards the end of the golden era of progressive rock, the denigration of the genre took a number of different forms. One of these was...

In the early 70s, radio was a vital medium which began to play an increasingly important role in my interest in prog. Though BBC Radio 3...

Though most readers will have a good understanding of the term ‘progressive rock’ it is inherent in the nature of many prog fans to query...

Close to the Edge by Yes One Saturday morning in September 1972 shortly after my thirteenth birthday, I accompanied my brother Tony on...