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Proud Peasant announce Vinyl Only New Release!
Cinematic progressive rock band Proud Peasant (Austin, TX, USA) will release a 7″ single on acclaimed UK vinyl-only label Fruits de Mer Records. ‘Cosmic Sound’ will be released as a part of the label’s April 2016 releases and will feature covers of songs by Eloy and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. Cinematic in scope, Proud Peasant’s…
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The Honourable Mentionables and Wallet Emptiers of 2015 – by Progradar
So, I’ve done my ‘Best of 2015’ list but there were so many that nearly made the list and should still be on your ‘Wallet Emptying’ selection that I couldn’t let 2015 close out without giving them a mention……….. Mandala – Midnight Twilight Psychedelic, dark and groovy. Mew – +/- Uplifting and slightly mental. Progoctopus…
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Review – Marquette – Human Reparation – by Terry DeLien
WHAT S UP PROG-NATION?!?!? It’s your boy, Terry DeLien, sometimes guest-host of PROG-WATCH and I am out to strain the shows relationship with Progradar even further by expecting Martin to publish my half-baked reviews!!!! Marquette (Markus Roth and Achim Wierschem) have just blown my mind!? An unwritten axiom of prog rock is that instrumentals are…
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Progradar’s ‘Best of 2015’ review – by Progradar
A scary picture to get things started, it’s that time of year again when everyone puts out their ‘Best of 2015’ album list and I’m no different to every other music journalist, budding or otherwise. Lists like these are very subjective, after all, one man’s poison is another man’s wine but they’re fun to do…
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Live review – Lee Maddison at The Rabbit Hole – by Progradar
“…there’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else….” Brad Melzer. The juggernaut that is mainstream music is a big, ugly bloated behemoth that just tramples all and sundry underfoot. It is a money making machine, long gone are the reasons why people created and performed music in the first…
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Review – Djam Karet – Swamp of Dreams – by Progradar
“We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.” – Milan Kundera When you have accomplished…
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Review – Opeth – Deliverance and Damnation (remixed) – by Shawn Dudley
2015 has been a retrospective year for Opeth. Their 25th anniversary tour was celebrated by adding a full performance of the 2005 album Ghost Reveries in addition to their regular Pale Communion set and the year closes out with a deluxe remixed reissue of their classic albums Deliverance and Damnation. Two albums that were recorded…
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Review – Thieves’ Kitchen – The Clockwork Universe – by Kevin Thompson
We welcome another new face the massed ranks of Progradar guest reviewers, please say hello to Kevin Thompson and his review of Thieves’ Kitchen. We used to have a saying when I was in the RAF, never volunteer for anything. So here I am, having volunteered to review ‘The Clockwork Universe’ by Thieves? Kitchen. Thieves’…
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Review – Mystery – Delusion Rain – by Rob Fisher
After releasing the excellent ‘One Among the Many’ (2010) and the superlative ‘The World is a Game’ (2012), expectations are rightly high for ‘Delusion Rain’, the fifth studio album from Canadian band Mystery. In the intervening years, ex-Yes front man Beno’t David, lead vocalist since 1999, made the difficult decision to step down and take…
