My first port of call, whenever I need some information about an album, is the LP or CD itself, and my next choice is to search through my collection of books, only querying the the internet. as a last resort. This blog shows why a physical library is essential for any student of prog rock

Fully aware of the horrors perpetrated by Soviet leaders against their own citizens and knowing that the Soviet form of communism was deeply flawed, I was still more tolerant of the USSR than of the USA up until Boris Yeltsin oversaw the disbandment of the bloc in 1991 and then carried out dramatic economic reforms in the early 90s; I’d even wanted to expand my horizons with a visit to Leningrad from Helsinki while on an InterRail trip in 1983, but organising a visa while alr

ProgBlog goes in search of Norwegian prog

I grew up at a time when progressive rock was a successful musical form and when there were programmes to stimulate my teenage imagination.