Prog
Guided By The Light
Swedish proggers Gaupa have gone from five members to four, but it isn't holding them back. With new mini-album Fyr the group have started afresh - and as guitarist David Rosberg and bassist Erik Sävström tell Prog, change isn't always a bad thing.
5 min |
Issue 163
Prog
The Power of Three
Despite a musical pedigree that includes prog luminaries like Mostly Autumn, Riversea and Lee Abraham, Moon Halo remain relatively undiscovered. Following the release of Trichotomy, their third studio album, Prog caught up with Marc Atkinson, David Clements and lain Jennings to find out how their three-way creative collaboration works.
4 min |
Issue 163
Prog
THE HARE AND HOOFE
Meet the atmospheric London quartet who struggle to be pigeonholed.
2 min |
Issue 163
Prog
BE PROG! MY FRIEND READIES THEATRICS AND SURPRISES FOR THIS YEAR'S BARCELONA WEEKEND
The 2025 edition will feature headline sets from heavy hitters Tesseract and The Pineapple Thief.
2 min |
Issue 163
Prog
GAZPACHO BACK AFTER FIVE YEARS
The art-rockers' original album plans were inadvertently scuppered by Hollywood.
2 min |
Issue 163
Prog
EDENSONG
New York proggers return with first studio album in almost a decade
2 min |
Issue 163
Prog
MOGWAI
Few bands of Mogwai's vintage can base a quarter of their set on a brand-new album - in this case.
2 min |
Issue 163
Prog
PROG FOR PEART
There's a moment when Forgotten Gods' Mark Cunningham sings Everybody's Hero – written about Neil Peart – and we're reminded that great live music truly transcends the mundane and touches the soul.
5 min |
Issue 163
Prog
MARK PRITCHARD
The Thom Yorke collaborator and electronic musician discusses working with the Radiohead singer, their latest release Tall Tales and the genius of Gentle Giant.
4 min |
Issue 163
Prog
GET ME OUT OF THE CAGE!
The curious tale of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour
10+ min |
Issue 163
Prog
Sending Signals
British prog rockers Ihlo are back with their longawaited second album. Legacy affirms their status as a force to be reckoned with and takes their synth-infused dynamic sound to a whole new level.
4 min |
Issue 163
Prog
Art Music
Robert Reed and Steve Balsamo's progressive electronic duo Chimpan A are back with their long-awaited third album, the teasingly-titled Music Is Art - Vol. 1. Comprising original material and some surprising cover versions, the doublelength record also includes a host of impressive musical guests. The pair discuss making big-sounding songs, fanboy moments in the studio and their plans to cast us all under the Chimp spell!
7 min |
Issue 163
Prog
Spirit Guide
Folk-proggers Kindred Spirit Band have teamed up with members of Gryphon, Stuckfish, Haze, Spriggan Mist and more on their seventh studio album. Bandleader Elaine Samuels tells Prog about the personal story that lies behind the conceptual The Journey Within, and the fantastical characters she conjured up to tell it.
5 min |
Issue 163
Classic Rock
WHEN OZZY MET MOTÖRHEAD
After Ozzy was sacked by Sabbath in 1979, his solo career got off to a convoluted start with Blizzard Of Ozz, released in September 1980 in the UK and six months later in the US. With the album an instant success in America, Ozzy's epic arena tour started there in April '81. Support for the first three months were Motörhead, making their US debut. Now major stars in the UK after their breakthrough with Ace Of Spades, Lemmy, Fast Eddie and Philthy felt like they’d stepped back to their scuffling days as they often faced hostile reactions or dumbfounded apathy from audiences.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
WANT TO SEE THE DOLPHINS?
There was a lot going on in Ozzy Osbourne’s world in the autumn of 2001. Fresh off the ongoing Ozzfest tour, with a reunited Black Sabbath headlining, he’d got home to find out that Sharon had signed up him and his family to a new reality TV show called The Osbournes that would be broadcast the following spring. “She just told me as soon as I got home that the deal was all done. I knew nothing about it,” he'd said, clearly bemused.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
“I BET RINGO DIDN'T DO THIS...”
The first and last time I saw Ozzy Osbourne’s private parts was at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan, in July 1998. A magazine had flown me and a photographer named Hugo Dixon to meet Ozzy on his day off from the Ozzfest tour.
3 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
MICK RALPHS
Hearing a particular guitarist on the radio when he was 18 changed his life. And what a life he went on to have, as guitarist and songwriter with Mott The Hoople and Bad Company.
8 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Simply The Best
New book celebrates Tina Turner.
1 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Mad Cool - Iberdrola Music, Madrid
Headliners Muse reign in Spain, headlining a bill that also includes Nine Inch Nails, Iggy Pop and Jet.
3 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Back To The Beginning
Birmingham Villa Park. Stars turned out in force for this celebration of Ozzy Osbourne, a true legend. No one knew that it would turn out to also be a final goodbye.
5 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Maid Of Stone - Maidstone Mote Park
Plenty of rock, lots of roll, a barrel of fun and a blown fuse on a weekend when everyone playing delivers.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Helloween
The German metallers release a new album in August and play an anniversary show in October.
3 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
OZZY WAS NOBODY'S FOOL, AND ALWAYS HAD THE GREATEST ONE-LINERS'
Photographer Ross Halfin offers memories and a personal view of the man behind the myth.
6 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
“WHO WOULD YOU RATHER SLEEP WITH, OZZY OR GEEZER?”
“If you absolutely had to,” a tipsy Sharon Osbourne asks me sweetly, “who would you rather sleep with – my husband or her husband?”
3 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
"WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE A LEGEND?"
On December 4 and 5, 1997, Black Sabbath's original lineup reunited for a pair of hometown shows at Birmingham's NEC Arena. There had been a handful of fleeting reunions in the 18 years since Ozzy Osbourne had been booted out of the band, including a sluggish appearance at the US leg of Live Aid in which they had the air of a band who had drunk their hotel bar dry the night before (it turned out they had), and a four-song set in Costa Mesa, California in 1992 to mark Ozzy's farewell show (we all know how that turned out).
3 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
Judged more by what the industry perceived them to be rather than what they actually sounded like, Harem Scarem never achieved the degree of success that their music should have brought them. But they’re still knocking on the door.
4 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
"OZZY SHAVED HIS HEAD LAST NIGHT"
Photographer Mark Weiss offers a glimpse of the “warm, generous” Ozzy who helped his career.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Steve Miller Cancels Tour
Weather blamed, but fans suspect poor ticket sales.
1 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Following health issues, the Leeds alt.rockers are back with their first album in six years and a September tour.
2 min |
September 2025
Classic Rock
‘I SUSPECTED SHARON WAS THERE MORE TO PROTECT ME THAN LOOK OUT FOR OZZY.’
Mick Wall on Ozzy, Sharon and all manner of goings-on.
4 min |