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Genesis made long, complex, instrumentally elaborate rock for hirsute proggers: Then they wrote the song that brought women to their shows

Genesis's first single since becoming a three-piece was a savvy change of tack

Louder · Nov 19, 2025

“I had a big lump in my throat when we did the last gigs. A big chapter in my life was coming to an end – and I couldn’t tell anyone”: The curious tale of Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour

The final road trip with Peter Gabriel featured an over-ambitious stage set, performing a double-album no one had yet heard, and dealing with dangerous and deadly mishaps – all while suspecting their singer was going to quit and the band might end

Louder · Nov 12, 2025

Marillion/Tangerine Dream offshoot Bioscope cancel December tour plans

Steve Rothery, Thorsten Quaeschning and Alex Reeves were due to tour as Bioscope through Europe in Deceber

Louder · Oct 14, 2025

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“People say Genesis ended when Peter Gabriel left, or when Steve Hackett left. But he was the anchor that everything else revolved around”: An appreciation of Tony Banks, by John Boegehold

Pattern-Seeking Animals keyboardist praises Banks’ ear, taste and understatement, which he argues is essential to everything Genesis achieved

Louder · Oct 8, 2025

“I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata

Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink Floyd reference as sings about being frontman and sideman in someone else’s project?

Louder · Oct 6, 2025

“It was the rats you could hear running up and down the air ducts. Either that or it was haunted. Jimmy Page says it was haunted”: Peter Gabriel and Genesis dissect their bonkers but brilliant prog swan song

Album was “a journey into the soul” says singer

MusicRadar · Sep 22, 2025

Four-fifths of the Genesis Lamb line-up reunite at Atmos playback in London

Check out our exclusive photos as Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford attend a Doly Atmos playback of the new reissue of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Louder · Sep 20, 2025

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Steve Hackett announces Best of Genesis And Solo Gems 2026 England and Scotland tour dates

Steve Hackett announces UK leg of 2026 tour and names new band replacements

Louder · Sep 15, 2025

Big Big Train drummer enlists Steve Hackett for rewiring of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tribute album

An updated version of Nick D'Virgilio and Mark Horsnby's Rewiring Genesis – A Tribute To The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway will be reissued in November

Louder · Sep 8, 2025

"A five-piece Genesis was never going to last, there were too many writing ideas": When Genesis reunited to make a film, it was the same old story

Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford look back on the controversial Genesis documentary Sum Of The Parts

Louder · Aug 13, 2025

“Various line-ups sprang into existence just because someone said, ‘I’ll be your guitarist – I’ve got money.’ They felt like drunken shags. I gave in, but I hated myself for it”: When Robert John Godfrey rebuilt The Enid after 21 wasted years

The release of Journey’s End in 2010 found the symphonic rock pioneer more content and focused than he’d been in decades, and ready to take the blame for previous misdemeanours

Louder · Jul 30, 2025

"I can't overstate my gratitude to Steve..." Steve Hackett keyboardist Roger King announces he's stepping back from the band

Steve Hackett's musical partner and producer, Roger King, announces that their next US tour will be his last

Louder · Jul 24, 2025

“They asked me to play the E string of a Chapman Stick with a bow for six minutes. Somebody else got that gig”: Why Nick Beggs passed on his audition for Blue Man Group – and what he learned from Frank Zappa

Nick Beggs played bass in Kajagoogoo – and almost every band you can think of

Guitar World · Jul 20, 2025

"One of my favourite Lamb songs..." Steve Hackett shares dynamic new live clip of Genesis's Lilywhite Lilith

Steve Hackett has just released The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall double live album

Louder · Jul 11, 2025

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Louder · Jun 27, 2025

“He was bedrock to the Yes sound; an incredibly creative player who has inspired so many. It’s unlikely that we’ll see his like again”: Chris Squire’s greatest musical moments, by bandmates, friends and fans

Members of Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, and later-generation musicians are among 30 artists who choose their favourite performances to mark a decade since the bass powerhouse’s death

Louder · Jun 20, 2025

We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia

Louder · Jun 20, 2025

“His previous work only hinted at a distinct musical personality… now he seems determined to prove he can sound unlike Genesis”: Nad Sylvan’s Monumentata

Best known as Steve Hackett’s live vocalist, he moves away from his usual tone with darker, more personal music than his earlier solo output

Louder · Jun 19, 2025

Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Fly On A Windshield with Marillion's Steve Rothery

Steve Hackett will release The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall double live album in July

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Louder · May 9, 2025

Steve Hackett announces The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall double live album

Steve Hackett celebrates the 50th anniversary of Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway with new live album in July

Louder · Apr 28, 2025

“There was a girl who wrote letters to Fish in her own blood, and there was an American you could imagine having a John Lennon moment with. You have to be careful”: Steve Rothery’s life and times with Marillion

It’s always been about music for the veteran guitarist, although distractions have included catching fire at the band’s first gig, realising he should be much richer than he actually was, and an alternative career he came close to pursuing

Louder · Apr 17, 2025

“He says he’s mediocre. I understand – I say the same thing. But he’s a great musician, and that has nothing to do with ability”: What Mikael Åkerfeldt’s peers really think of him

Steven Wilson, Mike Portnoy, Steve Hackett and Arjen Lucassen list the reasons they like and admire Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt

Louder · Mar 7, 2025

“On a frenetic album about consumerism and masturbation, you need your moments of contrast to count": The 10 best Genesis songs, as chosen by Prog readers

Over 28 years the genre giants released 15 albums, achieving over 100 million sales. It’s unfair to boil their work down to just a handful of key songs – but you did it anyway

Guitar World · Mar 3, 2025

“I can perform a screaming guitar solo while comfortably holding a conversation with an engineer, even though the beast seems to be screaming out”: Prog legend Steve Hackett explains how he conjures power without volume

The Genesis alumnus and prog trailblazer reveals what's on his pedalboard and explains the need for dynamics and the “delinquent” sounds

Louder · Feb 24, 2025

“Peter Gabriel started singing over my solos. I was pissed off – ‘You’re singing on my bit!’ But that half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready, arguably their greatest song

The band believe it’s the moment they began to become significant – and the construction of the 23-minute anthem for 1972’s Foxtrot was itself an epic experience

Louder · Jan 26, 2025

“Steve Hackett asked, ‘Do you want paid or shall I record for your next album?’ I said, ‘I’ll forget the money in two weeks – your solo will be there forever”: Orphaned Land updated Plato to make a point about revolution

Lead vocalist Kobi Farhi explains why 2018 album Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs echoes the ancient message: “dictators live forever – only the good die young“

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