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"I don't know if rock needs saving, but if Wolf and his crew can't do the job it's because we failed in getting the message out that the messiah is here": Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album

The third Mammoth album feels like the work of a musician settling comfortably into his own space and comfortable with all that attention

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"A vivid chronicle of Bob Dylan's rapid ascent and growth as an artist": The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village

A legend ascends in the latest forensic deep dive into Bob Dylan’s back pages on Volume 18: Through The Open Window 1956-1963

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“He couldn’t stand up so I hit him over the head with my bass. He fell to the floor. I ran away… I didn’t know if he was still alive”: The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage

Veteran admits he sailed close to the wind as he taught prog giants to drink – but he learned how much it means to play live with a band

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“It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems

The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild

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“Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history

Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

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“As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end

Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)

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“I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died

Drum legend Carmine Appice has been in the business for 60 years – and he’s crossed paths with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Dave Grohl

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Great new proggy sounds you must hear from Another Realm, Unprocessed, The Owl Service and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog from ĠENN, The Mon, Maha Sohona and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour

Asia will play a one-off show at The Corn Exchange, Ross-On-Wye, in January to raise money for Mike Peters' Love Hope Strength Foundation

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"How all deluxe releases should be done": The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive

The Who’s last blast with Keith Moon

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“Leonardo DiCaprio released a movie with the exact same storyline. It was as if he’d bugged the room! We scrapped the whole thing”: When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate

New concept LP begins with the true story of a baggage handler who stole a plane and killed himself, and goes on to celebrate a fake cult based on a toy ball

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"I was in the hotel with Joni Mitchell, but then the helicopter pilots decided they wanted more money": The last interview with Terry Reid

Touring with Marvin Gaye when he was 16, being pals with Aretha Franklin, turning down Led Zeppelin, making wonderful solo albums… Late British singer/guitarist Terry Reid had quite the life

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“Idiosyncrasies flow naturally; melodies hit hard, seamlessly twisting in unexpected ways”: Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point

Norwegian art-rockers deliver tightly-focused songs after a Hollywood clash forced them to reboot their 12th album

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"John Lennon walked past me and said, 'Great record'": The story of the Alice Cooper song that began as a failed single on an album one critic called "a tragic waste of plastic" but finished as a worldwide smash hit

Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

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Scott Sorry, former bassist with The Wildhearts, dead at 47

Singer-songwriter Scott Sorry also played with Brides Of Destruction and Sorry and the Sinatras

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What’s the greatest prog concept album of all time?

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is incredible, but were Genesis outdone by Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion or even The Kinks?

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Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026

UK prog rockers Marillion. will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25

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"The hooks are heavier, the peaks are higher, and the pacing is picture-perfect": Creeper drop the performance of their lives on Sanguivore II - Mistress Of Death

British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album

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"We'd been going down well until that happened": How The Nice offended Leonard Bernstein and the US Embassy

The story of the song that crystallised the burgeoning prog-rock movement and turned The Nice into one of the most controversial bands of the day

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“Queen’s tech said, ‘The lads would love to see you.’ It was a set-up – when I got there they’d set up the studio for me”: Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away

Yes icon on guesting with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, his 1960s session career, and never listening to what he recorded for Lou Reed

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"Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult but at the same time fantastic": Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are definitely speaking again

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham appear on podcast to discuss their debut album and the influence of Led Zeppelin

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"We've decided to lean into denser, more complex instrumental compositions…" Better Strangers, featuring Nic Collins, are back and even proggier on new EP

Better Strangers, with Nic Collins, son of Phil, have gone full prog. Watch the video evidence here…

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"There's loads of Hives in South America": The Hives on making their Back In Black, royal waves, and how the official franchise programme is going

The Hives' Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist on Outkast, the Beastie Boys, the Rolling Stones and becoming rock royalty

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"While there's still a possibility of Thunder coming back, I willkeep the door open": Luke Morley on his band, his other band, his solo career and wearing silver suits in the sun

Luke Morley doesn't know what the future holds but right now he's busy

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"The lyrics weren't a celebration of excess or debauchery, but a detached description of what was going on": The story of Ian Dury's biggest hit, a song that was never actually a hit at all

Its riff was stolen, twice, but its title defined an era and introduced a new phrase into the English vernacular

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