gong Archive
23 Sep 2024
Audio: Interview with Kavus Torabi and Dave Sturt of Gong
Since its founding in Paris in 1967, Gong has been more than a band. With its signature style of psychedelic space rock, the group launched by Soft Machine guitarist David […]
01 Sep 2024
30 Days Out, September 2024 #1: Buckethead, Ménage, Gong, David Cross, Darkside Experience
A mysterious instrumentalist, a local legend, a double-bill of prog heroes and a tribute of one of rock’s greatest: those are the highlights of the live music scene in Asheville […]
23 Apr 2024
Take 5: Notable Nick Mason Production Credits
Nick Mason is best-known as the drummer, sonic fiddler and unofficial/de facto archivist of Pink Floyd. (He currently leads his own group, the amazing Saucerful of Secrets.) But his interests […]
16 Jul 2023
Take 5: Steve Winwood Sessions of Note
Birmingham, England-born multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood has had a long and acclaimed career: he was only 14 years old when he joined the Spencer Davis Group, scoring hit singles with “Keep […]
06 Oct 2022
Take Five: Steve Hillage
Let’s Take Five with Steve Hillage… Guitarist Steve Hillage celebrated his 71st birthday recently (August 2). The acclaimed musician was a notable player in the Canterbury, England rock scene of […]
17 Mar 2015
Album Review: Gong – I See You
Daevid Allen departed this temporal plane last week. The music legend was best known as one of the founding members of Soft Machine, Canterbury England jazz/rock heroes. To continental fans, […]
03 Jun 2014
Album Review: Clearlight — Impressionist Symphony
With precious few exceptions, attempting a classical-rock hybrid is at worst a fool’s errand, at best a thankless task. All too often, this most ambitious of goals – bringing together […]