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“We’d smoke a little dope then wander round Heathrow Airport at night. All these hums, knocks, and noises coming from behind locked doors – the whole airport was a musical instrument”: Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s prog credentials

Simon Jeffes described his musical pursuit of the precious irrational as “imaginary folklore.” His work intrigued Brian Eno and has lasted long beyond his lifetime. But was it prog?

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“I’ve gotten in trouble because my background is so varied. ‘Are you a jazz guy? Are you a rock guy?’ I get it – If I buy cornflakes I want cornflakes”: How Chester Thompson and Neal Morse formed Cosmic Cathedral

With an average age of 70 the musical experience shines through on debut album Deep Water, as Morse aims to strike a balance between arrangements, jams and lyrical themes

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"I was just lying in bed, and my wife came in and said I was blue": Shuyler Jansen on near-death experience, broken ribs and Elton John's piano

Meet Neil Young-influenced Canadian Shuyler Jansen, who's looking to spread his success outside Canada

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"Sometimes you’ve got to shake up expectations." Idlewild announce first new album in six years: listen to anthemic first single Stay Out Of Place

The release of Idlewild's self-titled tenth album later this year will be accompanied by a UK tour

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"Shirley Manson sings like a pissed-off angel and has attitude to spare": Garbage's classic electro-grunge-goth-pop debut, revisited

Combining Massive Attack with Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins was always a great elevator pitch

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“We knew the album would stick out like a sore thumb and we’d have to show real tenacity. But if it wasn’t for Pull Me Under there’s a strong chance we wouldn’t be having this conversation”: When Dream Theater beat the odds with Images And Words

They were crossing Metallica with Yes and Rush while grunge ruled the world. But despite problems with their producer and label – and even rumors of a plot to replace James LaBrie – the prog metal pioneers survived and thrived

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Aldo Nova suffers severe injury after fall

Canadian legend Aldo Nova was about to embark on a rare run of shows

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"Plant is a walking treasury of tales that stretch way back before Led Zeppelin": Paul Weller shares new single featuring vocals from Robert Plant

Clive's Song comes from Paul Weller's upcoming covers album Find El Dorado

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Oasis smash Cardiff with an all-killer, no-filler reunion set - but what a disappointing crowd

Oasis delivered a near-flawless comeback show...but where were all the vibes?

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“Their heyday is gone but their importance has grown – this is a reminder of what an inspirational band they were”: Horslips At The BBC

Five discs of previously unreleased material from the Celtic rock pioneers

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“We were so raw and fresh, we didn’t know anything”: the story of Coldplay’s debut album Parachutes, the record that introduced the biggest band of the 21st century to the world

Chris Martin & co. were a long way from the stadium-dwelling titans of today making their debut album, but one song changed everything

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It's not all about Oasis, you know: here’s 10 forgotten Britpop bands worth a revisit

The mid-90s was a fertile time for British indie-rock but not every band got their due…

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"Was it worth the £4000 you paid for a ticket?" Oasis just played their first show since 2009. See the setlist and watch footage of Liam and Noel Gallagher's reunited band rocking Cardiff's Principality Stadium on the opening night of their Live 25 tour

Liam and Noel Gallagher are back sharing a stage again after 16 years apart, as Oasis kick off their reunion tour in Cardiff

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Cool new prog you must hear from Auri, L.O.E., Gaupa and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

Excellent new proggy sounds from Da Captain Trips, Rafiq Bhatia, Edenya and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

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"Thank you for your magic, Diogo." Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant pays tribute to Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident on July 3, aged 28

"What a tragic loss"

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"A reintroduction to the artist as his truest self." Kae Tempest's fifth album Self Titled cements his status as one of the most essential voices in UK music

Kae Tempest's follow-up to 2022's acclaimed The Line Is A Curve is another hard-hitting, incisive triumph

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“Many of these workouts sound amazingly contemporary; the mixing and matching of old and new is exemplary”: Tangerine Dream’s From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22

An impressive account of the electronic pioneers’ return to the Midlands half a century after their legendary show

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"A classic that deserves better treatment": The Sisters Of Mercy's First And Last And Always gets a gimmicky 40th birthday makeover

The Sisters Of Mercy's landmark goth classic First And Last And Always, now a four-disc set on coloured vinyl

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Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best

Queen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s biggest-selling album of all time, with total worldwide sales of over 25 million copies –but which song is the greatest?

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"The last thing I remember, Iwas playing at atopless bar and had aVolkswagen bus and a hundred bucks": What former Heartbreaker Stan Lynch did next

Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers’ drummer is back behind the kit for an album from his new Americana collective, The Speaker Wars

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A Mass by Van der Graaf Generator co-founder Judge Smith to be premiered 50 years after it was written

Judge Smith's Requiem Mass to receive its world premiere in Holborn in July

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“The intoxicating beauty remains 20 years on, reinforcing the notion that her softly charismatic voice can enchant in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light – The Recordings 2004-2006

Clamshell collection assembles the original Fairport Convention singer’s trio of 21st-century career-reviving albums

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Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King, band lineup changes, and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes

The Dead Daisies cover the blues greats on new album Lookin’ For Trouble

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"It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake

The Velvet Sundown have come clean

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"We thought it was going to be a disaster." Brian May and Roger Taylor look back on Queen's now-legendary performance at Live Aid, and share Bob Geldof's blunt pre-show advice to Freddie Mercury

"The response from the crowd was so deafening, it took your breath away"

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