steven wilson Archive
28 Feb 2023
Interview Roundup: Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson is one of the busiest and most fascinating artists working today. His list of credits is massive and ever-growing. Once thought of as a progressive rock artist, today […]
20 Mar 2022
March Through Time: Porcupine Tree
Led by Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree is for me the most important musical discovery of the 21st century. I first heard the group in early 2007, around the time of […]
14 Apr 2020
Prepare Yourself: Porcupine Tree’s ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ at 25 (Part 2)
Continued from Part One … The nature of the music on The Sky Moves Sideways gives bassist Colin Edwin comparatively little to do as well: while he’s an instrumentalist of […]
13 Apr 2020
Prepare Yourself: Porcupine Tree’s ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ at 25 (Part 1)
Today, Steven Wilson is widely known –and acclaimed – as one of the busiest and most creative figures in music. Though he came to wider notice as a kind of […]
02 Jul 2019
Stranger by the Minute: Porcupine Tree’s ‘Stupid Dream’ at 20
Porcupine Tree began as a ruse; Steven Wilson concocted a backstory for a fictitious band. But the prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist crafted music to go with the legend, and thus the […]
22 Jan 2019
Steven Wilson: Expect the Unexpected (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… For the title track of To the Bone, Wilson wrote the music, leaving the lyric composition to Andy Partridge, formerly of XTC. “If I’m going to […]
21 Jan 2019
Steven Wilson: Expect the Unexpected (Part One)
In some ways, the 2017 album To the Bone introduced a more user-friendly Steven Wilson. Certainly, Wilson’s fifth solo full-length features a good deal of the musically ambitious progressive rock […]
04 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part One
Late-breaking Author’s Note: Very shortly after I turned in this feature for publication — it ran in December on BLURT — news broke that Greg Lake had succumbed to cancer […]
29 Dec 2016
Best Music of 2016: Concerts
There’s a bit of overlap where my best albums and best concerts of 2016 are concerned. And there are some old favorites, too. John Mayall Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte NC March […]
22 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 1
Once again, it’s time for some hundred-word reviews. This first set spotlights five archival releases loosely falling into the prog subgenre. Greg Lake & Geoff Downes – Ride the Tiger […]