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    Swept Away
    Last year, Fates Warning frontman Ray Alder let slip in an interview with Prog that guitarist Jim Matheos, his bandmate for over 35 years, had neither any plans nor the desire to write new music for the progressive metal pioneers. It appeared that a
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    Slift
    VENUE ELECTRIC BALLROOM, LONDON DATE 28/02/2024 Normality clearly didn’t get a ticket this evening. The moment Slift take the stage at a crammed Electric Ballroom, they open a portal that distorts expectation, reason and genre convention. The band pl
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    The Learning Curve
    There’s a rare moment of pause from Devin Townsend. “Please try not to make this sensationalistic,” the progressive metal maverick asks, looking right down the lens of his video camera. “What I’m trying to do with expressing this is to help people wh
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    Portishead
    (Go! Beat, 1994) The old proverb “mighty oaks from little acorns grow” was never truer than when Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow met on an Enterprise Allowance scheme in Bristol in 1991. Tapes were exchanged in their tea break and a new band soon emerg
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    Cynic
    VENUE THE UNDERWORLD, LONDON DATE 14/03/2024 Three decades ago, no one would have predicted this. When Cynic released their full-length debut, Focus, in 1993, they were presented as the newest name in death metal, signed to Roadrunner Records and bas
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    Wobbler
    VENUE BELLEVILLE, COSMOPOLITE, OSLO, NORWAY DATE 02/03/2024 On a late winter’s night in Oslo, group of self-professed “Progheads” from a Facebook community with thousands of members are at the city’s historical Cosmopolite to celebrate their 10th ann
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    Alcest Hunt For The Sweet Spot
    “It’s always a goal for me to make something interesting from the beginning to the end, to make the listener travel, like a journey,” says Neige, frontman of Alcest. France’s blackgaze pioneers will release their seventh studio album Les Chants De L’
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    Rendezvous Point Look Inward On Third Album
    Norwegian prog metallers Rendezvous Point are set to return after a five-year hiatus with the release of their third album Dream Chase, which is released via Long Branch on June 21. The eco-conscious new single, Don’t Look Up, is streaming now across
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    Experimental Prog
    Listening to excerpts of John Cage Shock, Yoko Ono’s 1962 performance with John Cage and David Tudor, at her Music Of The Mind exhibition in London has put us in the mood for the latest Experimental column, which begins with percussionist-composer-pr
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    Misery Loves Company
    “I don’t think we went into it planning to make a heavier album,” says vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Elizabeth Heaton about Cold Waves Divide Us, the fifth album from Midas Fall. Since 2018’s Evaporate, the Scottish proggy post-rocker
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    Portals Festival 2024 Line-up Is Announced
    Portals Festival, the UK’s leading post-rock, math rock and new progressive festival held in London in May, has unveiled its full bill, with US post-rockers This Will Destroy You announced as Saturday headliners. They join fellow countrymen If These
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    High Time
    By the time Guy Garvey joined his guitarist mate Mark Potter’s band, Mr Soft, in 1990, his music-savvy sister, Becky, had already ensured the 16-year-old was schooled in the good stuff – from Genesis’s Selling England By The Pound onwards. “I have a
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    The Smile
    VENUE EVENTIM APOLLO, LONDON DATE 10/03/2024 When Thom Yorke sings, ‘Just gotta turn myself inside out…’ on Friend Of A Friend, it’s hard to shake the feeling that he could well be referencing The Smile’s modus operandi when it comes to their songwri
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    Eye Looks Away From Mwwb With Debut Album
    Eye – the new project from Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (MWWB) singer-songwriter and musician Jessica Ball – have announced the release of their debut album Dark Light on April 23 via New Heavy Sounds. The band was put together when Ball relocated fro
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    The Division Bell
    Jane Getter is a jazz guitarist at heart. For the New Yorker, who’s been playing guitar since she was eight years old, that means long, winding compositions rich with improvised solos come as second nature. Yet, on her latest album with her Premoniti
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    Big Big Train
    VENUE RIVOLI THEATER, THE WILLIAMS CENTER, RUTHERFORD, NJ, USA DATE 02/03/2024 SUPPORT DAVE BAINBRIDGE Tonight’s performance from Big Big Train is quite special. Not only is it celebrating The Likes Of Us (their first studio album with vocalist Alber
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    District 97
    VENUE REGGIE’S MUSIC JOINT, CHICAGO, IL, USA DATE 03/03/2024 It’s a chilly Sunday evening in Chicago. Many in the city have settled into their homes for the evening, bringing their weekends to a close to gear up for work or school the next morning. H
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    Leprous
    VENUE PROJECT HOUSE, LEEDS DATE 02/03/2024 SUPPORT NORDIC GIANTS Over the course of seven albums, Leprous have learnt to balance the vibrant but contrasting flavours that comprise their sonic DNA. Consequently, that’s helped draw an interesting cross
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    Back From The DEAD
    For a lot of bands, coming up with a name is an unceremonious thing. Quite often it boils down to questions as simple as “What sounds cool?” or “What rolls off the tongue well?” Such is not the case with Zombi. The Pennsylvanian synth-prog duo, made
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    John Carpenter Goes Into The Dark
    “The imagery is bold,” ponders Daniel Davies as he recalls how a chance Christmas gift of a book of stills from noir films from the 1940s from John Carpenter’s wife, Sandy, to her husband, came to inspire Lost Themes IV: Noir, which is released via S
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    Chrissy Mostyn (the Blackheart Orchestra)
    Where’s home? Sunny Wigan in Greater Manchester! What’s your earliest memory of prog? My oldest brother was in university by the time I landed on the planet, and I remember he was very immersed in all kinds of music, including ELO, Fairport and Kate
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    US, THEM & YOU
    Compiled by 1 STEVE HACKETT The Circus And The Nightwhale (INSIDEOUTMUSIC) 2 BIG BIG TRAIN The Likes Of Us (INSIDEOUTMUSIC) 3 PETER GABRIEL i/o (REAL WORLD) 4 RICK WAKEMAN Live At The London Palladium 2023 (ESOTERIC) 5 THE PINEAPPLE THIEF It Leads To
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    Squeaky Feet
    “I HAVE A THEORY that all bandnames are bad,” says Squeaky Feet guitarist and vocalist Colin Shore. “Once you’ve heard a name enough, you trick yourself into thinking it sounds cool. But I think Squeaky Feet is deceptive: it implies a dancey nature t
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    Marjana Semkina Kickstarts Album
    “It’s a bit bleak, but this is where the best art comes from: struggles,” says Marjana Semkina about her upcoming solo album Sirin. The title references a half-woman, half-bird creature in Slavic mythology: a harbinger of death and misfortune. “It’s
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    Psychedelic Prog
    Spearheading a new kind of pagan folk revival in her native Cornwall, Daisy Rickman offers an elemental take on seasonal and celestial shifts with Howl (Weird Walk). Named after the Cornish word for sun, the album finds the young artist, filmmaker an
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    Prog
    Editor Jerry Ewing Deputy Editor Natasha Scharf Art Editor Russell Fairbrother Production Editor Vanessa Thorpe News Editor Julian Marszalek Reviews Editor Dave Everley Associate Editor Jo Kendall Content Director Scott Rowley Jeremy Allen (JA), Joe
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    The Bardic Depths
    THE STORY OF The Bardic Depths is entwined with that of Big Big Train. Helmed by Lanzarote-based Dave Bandana, the quintet was formed among the posts of BBT’s Facebook group. They’ve assembled three albums so far, with studio assistance from Robin Ar
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    “We Didn’t Force A Connection, It Just Happened.”
    By the middle of 1971, Jethro Tull had made real inroads in North America, headlining to several thousand people every night. On June 24 of that year, they began a month-long tour of the US and Canada. Supporting them was none other than Yes – then o

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