Concert Review! Steven Wilson in Toronto, April 23, 2013
Here’s a new feature! Not one you should expect to see often, but when I go see a concert, I may as well write about it. I’m sort of a […]
Category Archives: Progressive
Ten essential classics of KRAUTROCK
Many of us have at least heard of Krautrock, which is basically German experimental and progressive rock from about 1968 onward through the seventies. It was influenced by what came […]
A listener’s guide to THE CHURCH
This is a special post for me. Many people have a “personal” musical act that really inspired them during their formative years, and I’m no different. Around 1990, as a […]
STRAWBS – Hero and Heroine (1974) Straight talking prog
When I was about sixteen (oh, about twenty-something years ago), determined to find music I could call my own, I embarked on a voyage of vinyl discovery back to the […]
JOHN MARTYN – One World (1977) A one-man musical revolution
Back from a holiday and enthused to write about one of my all-time favourites. And what a wonderful album this is. John Martyn was a Scottish singer-songwriter, very unfortunately now […]
NO-MAN – Together We’re Stranger (2003) Ambient folk perfection
The career of Steven Wilson has featured an interesting reversal in focus. Wilson’s name should be no stranger to lovers of ambient music or progressive rock. His band Porcupine Tree […]
MY BROTHER THE WIND – I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity (2012) Perfect neo-psych freakouts
Every now and then the jaded listener of retro-rock comes across something so great and so fresh-sounding that it restores his faith in the beauty of the analog. This album […]
IQ – Frequency (2009) Melodic perfection in the service of art
This is the first progressive rock album I have reviewed on this blog. So let’s get the nonsense out of the way. If you are one of those people who […]
HAWKWIND – Hawkwind (1970) For Huw Lloyd-Langton
Last week, Hawkwind’s original guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton passed away. I’ve spent a lot of time with a lot of Hawkwind albums over the years. God knows there are enough of […]
BE BOP DELUXE – Modern Music (1976) A Futurist manifesto
Time for a rock music post. I admit, I was born in the 1970s and am still young enough that maybe I should pay more attention to what’s hip and […]
Make Your Own Taste 