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

I’ve just reposted, with only minor editing, the blog ‘ 100 not out ’, the story of Prog magazine reaching its 100th edition in ten...

Everything the prog fan needs to know about Milan

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...

I grew up at a time when progressive rock was a successful musical form and when there were programmes to stimulate my teenage imagination.

For someone who was into progressive rock in 1972, my appreciation of the music of Jethro Tull, indisputably one of the genre’s ‘big...

Contrary to my previous pronouncements about the availability of prog in Venice, I can now reveal that there is a record store in the...

Any fool knows that progressive rock was invented by the English and by extension, the best beverage to consume while you’re listening to...

I’d been to Rome a couple of times before 2017’s Progressivamente Free Festival, in August 1980 by InterRail as a student and in 2006 as...

Assuming there’s no last-minute hitch with flight cancellations or travel restrictions being imposed because the Omicron BA.4, BA.5 and...

The Page family annual ski trips have resumed after quite understandable Covid restrictions kept the European pistes closed to UK...

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

There was a long wait for a prog gig during the Covid era from 13th September 2020 in Genoa until HRH Prog X on 4th September 2021

While a live album can’t compare with being physically present at a gig, the best of them are able to convey a sense of outstanding music...

Even though much of the world has been in lockdown to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, many musicians have been working away...

Producing a magazine dedicated to prog every 6 weeks traces a difficult path, catering for those stuck in the past and the more open-minded

The Instagram and Twitter trend ‘9 albums that changed my life/mean most to me’ (#9albums) which appeared in January 2018 didn’t pass me...

BBC Four has just shown a new, three-part series Hits, Hype & Hustle: An Insider’s Guide to the Music Business where the timing of the...

I’ve just ripped a rather large pile of my wife’s CDs to mp3 for her which according to the categories ascribed by Windows Media Player...

Anti-Brexit demonstration (Photo: Wix) I remember the UK joining the EEC in 1973 better than I remember the last time the UK took part in...