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The Wakemans, uncensored, grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Hackett & Rothery, Gentle Giant, Haken, Lonely Robot, Ozric Tentacles, Irmin Schmidt, Long Earth, North Sea Echoes, Tom Penaguin and more...

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The Sheepdogs: On the road with a band who wield retro tastes like superpowers. "I wish we could play in '73. But that's not gonna happen, so we'll just keep rocking and finding our people"

What happened when we joined Canada’s modern-day rock’n’roll perennials The Sheepdogs for shows in their homeland

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"Everyone is tired of these fake personas and people glorifying lifestyles that seem unobtainable." Headwreck have the cure for a world burned out on algorithms

Bounding forth with their own take on nu metalcore, Australia's Headwreck are all about being authentic

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Squeeze issue statement after worker dies at venue

Squeeze's show at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Virginia has been cancelled following the tragedy

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"The tempos are often breakneck and the dense arrangements tumble like bricks into hot cheese." Here are the 10 best songs from John 'Speedo' Reis' 10 bands including Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, Sultans and Drive Like Jehu

Step this way for some "savage blasts of junk shoppe punk that kicks you in the ding ding"

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"We were trying to poison the mainstream." How a 17-year-old schoolboy who played guitar "like the devil" saved one of Britain's best-loved bands, and stole David Bowie's heart

Suede's Coming Up laughed in the faces of everyone who believed that they would be lost following the exit of guitar hero Bernard Butler

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“I thought it would never amount to much, and it certainly wouldn’t interfere with the band. How wrong I was!” Steve Howe’s pre-Yes band were derailed by a single their vocalist was never meant to sing

The guitarist, along with Tomorrow frontman Keith West, found their band haunted by the spirit of Grocer Jack after Excerpt From A Teenage Opera reached No.2 in 1967

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The Darkness announce tiny 300-capacity London club show to launch greatest hits album Crock Of Hits

If you want to see The Darkness play the smallest UK show they've played in years, you better be quick

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Fontaines D.C. announce UK stadium and outdoor shows and two huge homecoming gigs in Ireland

Fresh from headlining Reading and Leeds festivals, Dubliners Fontaines D.C. announce massive outdoor shows for 2027

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Roger Daltrey comes clean on The Who's drummer problems. "It's never been the same since Keith died. I can't pretend it has"

Roger Daltrey confirms that Zak Starkey's on-off-on-off relationship with The Who is back on again

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Hear metal queen Doro Pesch uncork heavy cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way featuring Whitesnake and Sepultura members

A taste of star-studded tribute album Steel Rumours: The Songs Of Fleetwood Mac Reforged In Metal, out on November 20

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Listen to long-lost Phil Lynott song Can't Get Away, recorded just weeks before his death

Can’t Get Away, recorded with Huey Lewis, is one of 29 previously unreleased songs on the upcoming eight-disc Phil Lynott anthology The Story Of My Life

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"All the shows we performed on this small tour were extraordinarily vulnerable. We hope that translates." Yeah Yeah Yeahs release live Royal Albert Hall album and concert film

The New Yorkers' live recording is available to stream now through Secretly Canadian

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10 obscure but brilliant 70s bands who should have been huge

These 70s bands came, they rocked, and they vanished without trace

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“When you’re friends first and the music comes later, you know it’s non-competitive”: Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery aimed to prove two guitarists can share a studio without dissolving into a duel of overplaying egos. Did they do it?

It took them 10 years to find the time, but The Roaring Waves sees the Marillion and Genesis icons following each others’ lead in turns – and includes one song they believe will shock prog fans

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"His dad would come home from his night job and he had to sleep in the daytime. When he and his brother were too loud, his dad would give them military punishment." What exactly is Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl whispering on Everlong?

The 1997 single with the inaudible crackly bit has been streamed 1.8 billion times on Spotify

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“We got dropped by our manager, our publisher and our label. The grand project suddenly didn’t seem quite right”: Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness once gave themselves an hour to write a No-Man song. Another time, they took 25 years

Their 2019 album Love You To Bits began to take form in 1994, inspired by movie soundtracks, disco epics and Pink Floyd melancholy – but spent a quarter-century in development hell

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The story of Roundabout by Yes and the record company interference that made it successful. "We were shocked at first, but now I think it was a gift"

Inspired by Scottish scenery and circular intersections, Roundabout helped break Yes in the US after Atlantic Records took a blade to it

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"We recorded 12 songs in five days. It’s not as hard as you think." Punk rock supergroup Fake Names share Until It's Normal, the first song taken from upcoming album Punk Ruins

The band have also announced a series of European shows in early 2027

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“All the faders had been moved and knobs turned, despite the studio being locked and alarmed. Somebody – something – had moved everything”: Jethro Tull’s early 80s featured a haunted studio, nuclear evacuation cars on standby, and a tasteless stage trick

Ian Anderson looks back on A, Broadsword And The Beast, Under Wraps and Walk Into Light, and the musicians that made it a rich and rewarding era – even if some fans weren’t happy

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Rush add more dates to Fifty Something tour. "Life is nothing if not surprising, and we're doing fine and having a blast"

Rush's acclaimed comeback tour will now take in 92 shows

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"Frenzee is an outburst of adrenaline." Meet the Greek-Australian siblings running on red wine, darts and very high acid reflux

Fired up musically and politically, the Frenzee siblings blend punk, metal and rock

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Watch Billy Idol join members of Green Day and Blink-182 in star-studded performance at Ramones 50th anniversary celebration

Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker, Billy Idol, Tim Armstrong and more pay glorious tribute to The Ramones

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One of the great 'what if' moments in rock history: Ace by Dee Snider's Desperado. "Had this been released in the early 80s, it would have gone down a storm"

What happens when you mix Dee Snider, Clive Burr and Bernie Tormé? A lost, long-forgotten surprise

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 31, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Clutch, Queens Of The Stone Age, the Temperance Movement and more

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