prog Archive
01 Dec 2025
30 Days Out, December 2025 #1: Min Xiao-Fen and River Guerguerian, Dillon Fence, Thievery Corporation, Squawk
Two superb locally-based acts, and two touring groups who don’t often make it the mountains of WNC. Those are the highlights of live music in Asheville for the next 30 […]
27 Nov 2025
McLuhan: An Amazing Musical ‘Anomaly’ in 1971 and Today (Part Two of Two)
Continued from Part One… The following is the second part of an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. How much of the […]
26 Nov 2025
McLuhan: An Amazing Musical ‘Anomaly” in 1971 and Today (Part One of Two)
The following is an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. One of the strangest albums of the early 1970s is also one […]
13 Nov 2025
Album Review: David Gilmour – The Luck and Strange Concerts
Following on from my review of Roger Waters’ latest… David Gilmour and Roger Waters differ in many ways. One quality both men share is their non-prolific nature. Since closing the […]
12 Nov 2025
Album Review: Roger Waters – This is Not a Drill – Live from Prague
To simplify matters greatly – and at the inevitable risk of ironing over some important exceptions – it’s fair to say that when it came to Pink Floyd, Roger Waters […]
06 Nov 2025
Album Review: Rick Wakeman — The Official Broadcast Collection
The casual progressive rock fan – if such a creature doth exist, m’lord – likely thinks only of the A&M era when considering the solo output of keyboard virtuoso and […]
03 Nov 2025
30 Days Out, November 2025 #1: Beach Fossils, Furious Bongos, They Might Be Giants, David Wilcox
If there’s a thread connecting the disparate array of artists spotlighted in this rundown of music coming to Asheville in the next 30 days, it’s critical praise. All are admired […]
24 Oct 2025
Album Reviews: Two from Velvet Opera
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (later simply Velvet Opera) is one of countless British acts that didn’t break through in the U.S. Based on their debut, they deserved much better. Two […]
30 Sep 2025
Hundred Word Reviews, September 2025: Prog
It’s Hundred-worder time again here at Musoscribe World HQ. What’s on? Prog! Lotsa, lotsa prog. Mostly new, but one very noteworthy reissue. Markus Reuter – Truce <3 Markus Reuter is […]
21 Aug 2025
Album Review: Yuka & Chronoship – Ribbon Butterfly
Released in 2015, The 3rd Plantary Chronicles was the third album from Japan’s Yuka & Chronoship. Yuka’s brand of neo-prog on that album was a remarkable synthesis of classic motifs, […]