LouderSound7/16/2026
“The day I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home. It’s hard enough for trained singers, let alone an audience who will massacre it”: How Ian Anderson refined Jethro Tull stage showsThe 1982 album gave Ian Anderson a chance to have a long hard look at his band’s stage production values
LouderSound7/15/2026
Phil Collins shares previously unreleased live version of You Know What I Mean and announces deluxe vinyl box set of Face ValuePhil Collins' Face Value’ celebrates 45 Years with four-LP deluxe vinyl box set and a new Dolby Atmos mix from Steven Wilson, out in September
LouderSound7/14/2026
“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven WilsonTaking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, Midge Ure regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree
LouderSound6/25/2026
“I was obsessed with him at school – it didn’t help with the girls! Because of him I got my first guitar, so he’s got a lot to answer for”: The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The BeatlesSoord’s inspiration comes from a prog icon who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right
Loudwire6/22/2026
The Best Song on Every Opeth AlbumHow do you pick just one from 'Blackwater Park'?!
Metal Injection5/25/2026
THOM YORKE of RADIOHEAD Knew NIRVANA Would Be Huge"I remember when I first heard 'Nevermind.' I was like, ‘OK, it’s on’." says Thom Yorke on the success of Nirvana's sophomore album.
LouderSound5/23/2026
"I remember when I first heard Nevermind and I was like, 'OK, it's on'." Radiohead's Thom Yorke recalls the moment he realised Nirvana were going to change the world"I remember when I first heard Nevermind and I was like, ‘OK, it’s on’"
LouderSound5/19/2026
“He’s trying to say, ‘They’re words. The more you use them, the more you disempower them’”: Why Marillion ex Fish opened a song with a string of racial slursFish’s 1997 album Sunsets On Empire remains a sunny moment in the Marillion ex’s stormy career, although one song might not be the same if it was written today
LouderSound5/19/2026
"Simply some of the most sophisticated and beautiful progressive rock music ever created!" Steven Wilson announces Gentle Giant, Storm Corrosion and Hawkwind additions to his Headphone Dust platformSteven Wilson's 2012 live album Catalogue / Preserve / Amass is available digitally for the very first time, and his own The Future Bites is also given a new digital makeover
LouderSound5/12/2026
“Most of the audience reaction was negative. It was messing with my focus. So we decided to do something different”: A change of approach allowed Sunn O)))’s prog influences to run wildIf you can’t connect drone metal heroes Sunn O))) with King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis, allow them to explain
