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“People would ask: ‘Is David Byrne a genius or a moron?’ I wanted to nip that ‘moron’ bit in the bud, so it was better to say ‘genius.’ The truth is somewhere in between”: The prog credentials of Talking Heads

The eccentric post-punk outfit certainly progressed with albums including More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music and Remain In Light… but were they actually progressive?

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"He's not a great keyboard player, he doesn't write great songs. His engineering and technical abilities are limited too. In fact, he knows very little about an awful lot": The Edge on Brian Eno and how he influenced his own "limited" guitar style

Classic interview: U2 guitarist reflects on the making of The Unforgettable Fire in 1985 interview

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“The proggiest pop song to reach the top spot since Marillion’s Kayleigh... and that only actually reached No.2”: Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know and its parent album, Making Mirrors

Wally De Backer’s Grammy-winning 2011 record proves he’s more Brian Eno then Ed Sheeran

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Elon Musk, unions and JLo: the most anticipated documentaries of 2024

The next year promises a raft of fascinating eye-openers including looks at dicey legal issues and some A-list celebrities

The Guardian - US

‘A tonic that no medication can give’: readers’ favourite albums of 2023

From Raye’s multi-genre majesty to Zach Bryan’s blue-collar country, these are the LPs that most affected readers this year

The Guardian - UK

Heroes: The 6 best covers of David Bowie's classic (and three that are not quite so heroic)

Best of 2023: Many have tried and many have failed, but here are six artists that nailed one of the best songs of our time

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"I was standing crying at the synthesizer, so I pulled out a card and it said 'just carry on'. I did and created something I still like today": How Brian Eno's mysterious Oblique Strategies could help your music production and your life

"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?

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”They called me about a week after Jeff Porcaro passed… they’d grown up together, they’d lost a blood brother, and suddenly the all-American West Coast band has a tea bag in it!” How Simon Phillips joined and left Toto

The multi-genre drummer spent over two decades with the band – but insists it was surprisingly easy to leave when the time came

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Marta Salogni: "Seeing a mixing desk for the first time lit up something inside of me - it's the meeting point of music, art, science and engineering"

Grammy-nominated recording engineer Marta Salogni chats to Danny Turner about her illustrious career and restoration of albums for ’80s synth pioneer Pauline Anna Strom

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10 Christmas gift ideas for the music-maker in your life under $100

Stocking stuffers for musicians on a budget

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“I was completely petrified by Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights on TV. Anyone I was scared of I was interested by”: How Matt Berry discovered prog

Toast Of London star and self-taught musician became a fan of Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd and more

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"To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration": why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head dribble"

And why 'important' doesn't always mean 'best'…

MusicRadar

Peter Gabriel - i/o album review: lunar-inspired, slow-burning contemplation

For his first album in twenty years, the former Genesis singer has enlisted a huge cast of stars, including Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, and Brian Eno

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"In the mid-1970s, Berlin was a terrifying place to be. At Hansa Studio, you looked out the window and there was an East German machine gun turret": King Crimson's Robert Fripp looks back on recording "Heroes" with David Bowie and Brian Eno

"If the machine gunner wasn't a Bowie fan, he could've sprayed us!" Robert Fripp on working with David Bowie in Berlin

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“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

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“Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education

Former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman traces a line from Nat King Cole and Frank SInatra to Talk Talk, Marillion, Jethro Tull and others

The Guardian - UK

Celia Hollander: 2nd Draft review – turns a piano into a new sound world

Hollander’s works sound simple but are incredibly detailed and multi-layered, her treated piano solos evoking wind, rain and air

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"Where menace meets magic": 6 legendary albums recorded at the iconic Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin

Bowie, Iggy, Bono, Stipe, Depeche and Sylvian all recorded their master works there. Thankfully not all together.

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"I had no melody so I only sang the lines I'd written for four or five bars at a time": The making of David Bowie's Heroes and why Robert Fripp should get some credit five decades on

He might have been making it up as he went along, but this 46-year-old masterpiece has become Bowie's most iconic recording

The Guardian - UK

Brian Eno and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic review – orchestral manoeuvres with the king of ambience

Surrounded by a host of musicians in motion, and in his first ever solo show, Brian Eno’s 2016 album The Ship – about colossal human hubris – becomes an almighty sound installation

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"Nothing much happens for the first eight or ten hours. Just trust that it's going to work out.” Classic Brian Eno interview reveals how he really produced ambient music

And on the DX7: "I'm very surprised that Yamaha haven't given me one free"

Evening Standard

Brian Eno and Baltic Sea Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall review: an avant-garde homecoming

The art-rock pioneer boldly went where few musical voyagers have gone before.

The Guardian - UK

Brian Eno review – rapturous swell of ambient beauty amid a sea of high drama

Taking his place among the Baltic Sea Philharmonic Orchestra the composer delights a surreal crowd of dinner suits, grizzled rock’n’roll survivors and Brian Eno lookalikes

Evening Standard

U2 at the Madison Square Gardens Sphere in Las Vegas review: this could be the greatest show on earth

With the largest LED screen in the world, the Sphere has bells, whistles and everything in between. It cost more than $2 billion and you can see every dollar

The Guardian - UK

Brian McBride: the Stars of the Lid musician who lit up the ambient firmament

McBride’s death this week aged 53 brings one of the great musical duos to an end – but, as his partner Adam Wiltzie explains, there is still more music to be heard

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