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“I’d love for one of my songs to become huge. I believe I’ve written stuff that could easily cross over. But the industry isn’t set up for someone like me to do that”: Steven Wilson once wanted to be a rock star, but became a musician instead

What does it mean to be a figurehead of modern prog? How would mainstream stardom affect daily life? Ahead of the release of Hand. Cannot. Erase., Wilson considered his situation

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“There was this theory that once one major label had a prog band, all the others would follow suit…it didn’t really work like that”: Twelfth Night deserved big-time success with Fact And Fiction. That’s not what happened

They pipped Marillion to the post to be the first of the 80s prog bands to release an album, and fought hard to make it happen - but bad luck trumped their talent

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“A beautiful farewell from an instinctively progressive talent”: Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis made one stunning solo album, then walked away for ever

Vocalist’s 1998 release was full of prog promise for the future, but turned out to be his last artistic statement before his 2019 death

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"We’re slowly becoming a band with its own identity.” How Riverside made Love, Fear & The Time Machine

Trading in prog metal riffs for a sound inspired by 80s pop, Riverside’s sixth album marked a daring change in direction, which perfectly suits a record that’s all about change itself.

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"The middle of the day was Marillion. Mornings and evenings DeeExpus." What happened when Mark Kelly joined North East prog rockers DeeExpus

The rise of DeeExpus has been swift. Now with their second album King Of Number 33 and Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly in tow, prog stardom awaits.

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“I didn’t know if Ross would be into this kind of music… I sent him an email and he was like, ‘Dude! You have no idea!’ It just fell into place”: How Haken’s Ross Jennings wound up making two albums in 18 months with Nick D’Virgilio and Neal Morse

The unlikely trio, with the same international make-up as Crosby, Stills and Nash, have a third record and live dates on their wish-list

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“We were inspired by the Brits at the start, then the British media forced us to become a different type of band. Made and broken in the UK, you could say”: The prog credentials of Styx

Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw believe that despite the big hits, the band always had something more substantial at heart

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"I think that Rush are the best band that have ever existed and ever will." Young UK prog rockers Square Wild state their case

2023 was a big year for Manchester quartet Square Wild, wininng Best Unisgned Band in the Prog Readers' Poll and introducing themselves to the prog community in no uncertain terms

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Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Big Big Train, Exploring Birdsong, Midas Fall and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog music to check out from Caleb Landry Jones, Circuline, Dave McLean, Abstrakt Lake and more...

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“What you’re hearing is an emotional reaction, it’s not us being smart or being good at something. It’s us being excited about what we’re doing because we’re discovering it”: When Motorpsycho completed their politically-aware trilogy with The All Is One

While the experimental Norwegian outfit looked for joy, their 2020 album was also a reaction to the threat of “strong men” like Donald Trump and their “mouthy” politics

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“We’d fly into town, we’d place the road crew in the limos and we’d go in hire cars… we were in it for the music, not the personalities”: John Anthony Helliwell recalls Supertramp’s glory days

Saxophonist, keyboardist and backing singer became the voice of the band between songs because no one else wanted to do it

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“I didn’t want the job with Robert Plant, I wasn’t after it and there were 5,000 guys that were - but they called me. When things come into your life, embrace them; when they leave, let them go”: Francis Dunnery’s lessons in life

It Bites co-founder shares his experiences of Steve Hackett, Genesis, Yes and the music industry - and why he thinks it’s no bad thing that most of prog is a “caricature”

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Great new prog music you have to hear this week from Trevor Rabin, Whom Gods Destroy, If These Trees Could Talk and more...

Cool new prog music to check out from Artificial Language, Alber Jupiter, Blue Öyster Cult and more...

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“However high-falutin’ the intention, you’re still onstage as an entertainer, so make a performance out of it!” Jo Quail claims it’s easy to write orchestral prog metal - and to be fair, she does make it sound easy

Electric cellist’s classical-stroke-metal masterpiece The Cartographer makes maximum impact from one basic concept, but the real magic is in the delivery

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“We broke up after debating the exact time signature of Solsbury Hill!” Before being able to enjoy lively debate with Peter Hammill, Tim Bowness dated an argumentative prog fan

If he hadn’t discovered the genre via a childhood Subbuteo tournament, he might have wound up working in flavoured crisps

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Ihlo to premiere live at ProgPower Europe performance

Scottish prog metal quintet Ihlo to premiere last year's ProgPower show via Bandcamp and YouTube

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“The director told me he wanted a song about death… Not only that, but it was a rabbit”: Mike Batt on Watership Down, his concept albums and the connection between the Wombles, Steeleye Span and (maybe) Hawkwind

Performer, composer and director on his early introduction to prog, the shelved 1973 rock opera that cost him £11,000 and keeping Dave Brock under control

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New prog music you have to hear from The Pineapple Thief, The Utopia Strong, The C Sides Project and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog music to check out from North Sea Echoes, A Burial St Sea, 25 Yard Screamer, Sometime In February and more...

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There are only 300 worldwide, so get yours while you can!

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Steve Hackett's on the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

Plus Family, Opeth, Trevor Horn, No-Man, The Orb & David Gilmour, Pallas, Caligula's Horse, Brian Auger and loads more...

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“He really immersed himself in the story and spent weeks rewriting the narration… I had no idea what he was talking about, but it was so much better than what I wrote”: When Arjen Lucassen worked with his hero Rutger Hauer

Blade Runner star worried the Ayreon mastermind with the amount of swearing in his rewrites for concept album Lost In The New Real

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“People would ask: ‘Is David Byrne a genius or a moron?’ I wanted to nip that ‘moron’ bit in the bud, so it was better to say ‘genius.’ The truth is somewhere in between”: The prog credentials of Talking Heads

The eccentric post-punk outfit certainly progressed with albums including More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music and Remain In Light… but were they actually progressive?

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“This is the next natural step in our evolution. This is a pinnacle moment for us. It’s something we had to do.” How Dream Theater made uber concept album The Astonishing

With 2021's The Astonishing Dream Theater unveiled the daddy of all prog metal concept albums

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"The only thing I find offensive is the suggestion I’ve done something wrong by making the record I wanted to make." Steven Wilson and the trials of The Future Bites

Steven Wilson's sixth solo album, 2021's The Future Bites, was his most musically diverse and released to much critical acclaim, but not everyone was happy with it!

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