HISTORICAL FACTS: 67 | History Defined

“It was about the second coming of Jesus, except he’s in a spaceship”: Sammy Hagar on aliens, Jesus and the 70s sci-fi prog album he started then abandoned

The unlikely story of Sammy Wilde And Dustcloud

Louder · Nov 23, 2025

“An intense work of dark, progressive beauty staggered out of the wreckage”: Blending Pink Floyd and Kate Bush, this band sustained permanent damage as they tore themselves away from Britpop

The lead members’ relationship never recovered after making a 1994 record that was condemned as pretentious and pompous – although that’s what they wanted it to be

Louder · Nov 23, 2025

“The bar owners pulled guns on us. It was over whisky and disrespect. We were 22 and hard as steel”: The incredible story of the forgotten Detroit hellraisers who blazed a trail for Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and The Stooges

Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels are one of the great lost American bands of the 60s

Louder · Nov 23, 2025

Watch Robert Plant perform Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole during Tiny Desk Concert set

Robert Plant and Saving Grace play intimate set including Led Zep classic

Louder · Nov 22, 2025

“I’d like to think that when you die death comes for you however you want, and I feel that it’s your strongest memory”: The bleak but uplifting story behind the emo Bohemian Rhapsody

How My Chemical Romance became the kings of the 2000s emo scene

Louder · Nov 22, 2025

"It's definitely different. There's a lot of soul music in there." The story of Luke Machin's debut solo album, Living On The Edge

Maschine and The Tangent guitarist Luke Machin is one of prog's most respected young guitarists. But for his Soulshine project he turned away from the day job to soul music

Louder · Nov 22, 2025

“It deals with the fact there’s no hope of escaping The Trump Show. But if Michael League isn’t getting much sleep, his loss is the world’s gain”: Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest reunite for Somni

Texan prog-jazz collective hang out with some old friends who helped them score their first of five Grammys to date

Louder · Nov 22, 2025

“They said, ‘You mean we’ve paid $12,500 for a piano player?’ My publisher said, ‘Yes, but he’s a good piano player’”: The label called it “unsellable”, the critics hated it, but this prog icon’s solo album went on to sell nearly 15 million copies

How Rick Wakeman defied the critics and his own label to make The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Louder · Nov 22, 2025

“I thought no one’s gonna buy this because it’s too long. I thought our label would say, ‘Sorry boys, you’ll be hearing from our lawyers’”: How Genesis wrote one of prog’s wildest epics –with help from a rumoured exorcism

Genesis’ mad 1972 epic is up there with Stairway To Heaven and Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Louder · Nov 22, 2025

"I started feeling the political wheels starting to turn toward conservatism a little bit" How a song on Green Day's most misunderstood album set the groundwork for one of their biggest acts of protest

As the new millennium started, a creative decision would push Green Day onto an entirely new path, one that would come to help define their later years

Louder · Nov 21, 2025