My first visit to Amsterdam was as a 20 year old, the first stop on a month-long journey around western Europe by train with university...

A recent post on Reddit asking for dark or scary prog suggestions got me thinking. A selection of ProgBlog's collection of Dark Prog around a photo of L'Ombra della Sera, live in Genoa I wasn’t aware of the sub-genre ‘dark prog’ until I got chatting to the proprietors of Genoa’s Black Widow Records shop. The shop itself is named after the original purveyors of dark prog, the UK’s Black Widow, a favourite of Massimo Gasperini. Black Widow’s debut Sacrifice from 1970 is conside

Britain’s National Health Service celebrated its 70th anniversary last week, having come into effect on July 5th 1948. Despite a...

One of my recent purchases, on a short trip out to Crystal Palace, was a £1 copy of Short Stories (1980) by Jon and Vangelis, from...

One of my Record Store Day 2018 purchases, that is one of the limited editions specially produced for the occasion rather than one of the...

If you choose to go to a pub, which is more likely than not to be showing some desperately important sporting event and could...

The Instagram and Twitter trend ‘9 albums that changed my life/mean most to me’ (#9albums) which appeared in January 2018 didn’t pass me...

BBC Four has just shown a new, three-part series Hits, Hype & Hustle: An Insider’s Guide to the Music Business where the timing of the...

An interview with Stuart Avis from Servants of Science The limited edition CDs are being hand-numbered and local postal workers should...

Something strange is going on in my local area. I’ve been around at home most evenings for the past two weeks and the fireworks...

What will the future of prog look like, assuming there's still life on earth...?

I’ve just ripped a rather large pile of my wife’s CDs to mp3 for her which according to the categories ascribed by Windows Media Player...

The Crystal Palace was originally built in Hyde Park for the first World Exposition in 1851, a structure designed to be temporary with...

I bought myself a bass guitar shortly after my 18th birthday, a Fender Precision copy with a sunburst finish and no manufacturer’s...

If we accept that the progressive rock genre started in 1969 and proto prog has been around since 1967 it’s hardly surprising that, given...

Ten years ago I was sitting in an MBA tutor group, discussing the pharmaceutical industry when I casually announced my belief that the...

I visited the You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970 exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in November...

Machu Picchu Ever since Tales from Topographic Oceans was released in 1973, I’ve been entranced by not just the music, but also by the...

Sometime in July my wife forwarded me an Amazon recommendation, Peter Hammill and the K Group Live At Rockpalast – Hamburg 1981, a DVD...

Anti-Brexit demonstration (Photo: Wix) I remember the UK joining the EEC in 1973 better than I remember the last time the UK took part in...