prog Archive
11 Apr 2013
Album Review: Conspiracy – Conspiracy Live
As the sole member of Yes to appear on every single album, Chris Squire has stayed quite busy these last several decades. Though he released but one solo album (1975’s […]
08 Apr 2013
Album Review: Curved Air – Airwaves
Not to take anything away from the impressive achievements of The Police (their dubious 21st century reunion notwithstanding), but it’s long been a source of some amusement among rock historians […]
05 Mar 2013
Album Review: Nektar – Journey to the Centre of the Eye
The history of 1970s rock is littered with also-rans. Even though the pop music landscape of that decade was arguably more varied than today’s (and by “pop” I mean music […]
18 Feb 2013
Album Review: King Crimson – Discipline (40th Anniversary Series Edition)
From their inception in 1969, King Crimson has always been about creating outside-the-box music that challenges (or simply ignores) convention. By the middle of the 1970s, the band had created […]
11 Feb 2013
Album Review: Unitopia – Covered Mirror Vol. 1: Smooth as Silk
Like any musical genre or subgenre, progressive rock has many varieties within its confines. There’s aggressive, sometimes atonal math-based stuff; there’s brutal prog-metal, there’s retro-prog that tries to recreate the […]
04 Feb 2013
Album Review: Rick Wakeman – No Earthly Connection
I had my initial doubts about this one, and with good reason. Among music fans, Rick Wakeman is a polarizing figure. One either loves his work or despises it. For […]
01 Feb 2013
A Conversation with Thijs Van Leer of Focus
American audiences know Focus – if they know the Dutch progressive group at all – for their left-field 1971 hit single “Hocus Pocus.” Yeah, the one with the yodeling, whistling, […]
22 Jan 2013
Capsule Reviews: January 2013, Part 4
Here’s still another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews; today I cover rock, prog, industrial/EDM and…you decide. I had a huge stack of CDs deserving of review, but […]
21 Jan 2013
Capsule Reviews: January 2013, Part 3
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews; today it’s prog, ambient, worldbeat and acoustic. I had a huge stack of CDs deserving of review, but time doesn’t […]
16 Jan 2013
Capsule Reviews: January 2013, Part Two
Here’s another installment in my occasional series of capsule reviews, this time covering new releases by indie/self-released artists. My self-imposed limit for this particular exercise is 150 words on each […]