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Review – The Far Cry – Once There Was – by John Wenlock-Smith
I came across ‘Once There Was’ via a post from Don Skazin on the Prog Explorations Plus Facebook page and was suitably intrigued enough to reach out the band offering to review the album for Progradar, proof indeed that social media can make a difference. I contacted Jeff Brewer, The Far Cry’s vocalist and bassist…
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ENVY OF NONE?S NEW SINGLE THE STORY? OUT TODAY WITH NEW VIDEO, TAKEN FROM THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM STYGIAN WAVZ
Ahead of the release of their new album Stygian Wavz (28th March, Kscope), American/Canadian fourpiece Envy Of None have shared a brand-new single today. The second track from the new album, The Story holds a special place in each of the band member’s hearts and is brought to life with a stunning new video by…
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GENTLE GIANT
Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience 2CD, 2CD+BluRay, Triple Vinyl To Be Released on 2nd May 2025 The brand new reimagined, remastered and remixed version of Gentle Giant`s classic 1977 live album Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience is set to be released. Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience, will be released…
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Nad Sylvan announces raw & personal new album Monumentata; launches first single That’s Not Me
Nad Sylvan, known as vocalist with legendary guitarist Steve Hackett, announces his vulnerable & personal new solo album Monumentata for release on 20th June 2025 via InsideOutMusic. Sylvan’s music draws heavily from the golden age of progressive rock while blending in folk, classical, and modern rock influences, resulting in a sound that feels both classic and…
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Review – Gustaf Ljunggren & Emil De Waal – Mikroklima
Following the success of their 2023 release ‘Stockholm K?benhavn’, two of Denmark’s most celebrated musicians in multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren and drummer Emil de Waal present their fourth collaborative album. Expanding on their growing reputation for crafting songs and sounds with masterful senses of subtlety, narrative and capacity to form meaningful connections with their collaborators and…
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Review – Nicholas de Renty – Retour Au Bercail – by John Wenlock-Smith
Progressive music certainly has the ability to throw you some strange or odd musical curves, take this album from French solo musician Nicholas de Renty entitled ‘Retour Au Bercail’ which translates as meaning ‘Return to The Fold’ . Nicholas performs the majority of the instruments apart from on the track Traquenard where he is joined…
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The Flower Kings announce new full-length album LOVE, and new single “How Can You Leave Us Now!?”?
LOVE will be released on May 2nd, 2025, via InsideOutMusic Album Pre-Order Open Now! The Flower Kings are set to release their 17th studio album on May 2nd, 2025, titled LOVE. With How can you leave us now!, the quintet unveils the first track from their upcoming record that is available for pre-order now. The band…
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Review – Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – The Uncertainty Principle – by Roger Trenwith
Learn to live with uncertainty, learn to cope with reality? so begins the last stanza of the last track on this, the eighth album by Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate. That’s a line that applies more than ever in these unsettling times we live in, as much as it applies to front man Malcolm Galloway’s…
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HAKEN announce Liveforms: An Evening With Haken? – recorded live in London
Progressive pioneers Haken spent 2024 celebrating their most recent acclaimed studio album, Fauna, in the most comprehensive way possible, as part of their An Evening With run throughout the world. Playing two full sets each night, the band performed Fauna in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from…
