Monday, October 24 2011
Drag the Dream Into Existence: Reassessing Rush’s Masterpiece
Moving Pictures is, without any question, not only Rush’s masterpiece, but one of those rare albums that epitomizes an era. It's a template of sorts for the way rock albums were made in the early '80s.
Thursday, October 20 2011
Steven Wilson: Grace for Drowning (Deluxe Edition)
He's as challengingly divisive as ever, but the strength of Grace for Drowning is that it bridges that divide to Steven Wilson's benefit.
Thursday, September 29 2011
Opeth: Heritage
Heritage is both a significant departure from Opeth's past output, but also a completely natural recording, one that prior albums hinted that the band was bound to make.
Wednesday, September 28 2011
Grace Under Pressure: An Interview with Steven Wilson
The Porcupine Tree frontman reveals why he's jazzed about his unconventional new solo album.
Wednesday, September 21 2011
Dream Theater: A Dramatic Turn of Events
A couple of strong songs does not a full album make, and this constantly-working cycle that Dream Theater is on seems to have passed the point of diminishing returns.
Thursday, September 15 2011
The Dear Hunter: The Color Spectrum
All the way from its incredible creation and sonic display to its variety of presentations, The Color Spectrum has covered all of the bases and proved itself as an album worthy of repeated listens.
Monday, May 23 2011
The 25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time
Put as simply -- and starkly -- as possible, many beautiful babies were thrown out with the bath water by hidebound critics who were content to sniffingly dismiss the more ambitious (pretentious!) works that certain bands were putting out as a matter of course in the early-to-mid-‘70s.
Friday, May 13 2011
King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)
In the Wake of Poseidon is dated only in the sense that it sounds like it was made in 1970, and 1970 was a very nice year indeed for the making of albums.
Friday, May 6 2011
Progressive Rock With a Capital P: Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die
Steve Winwood is seldom mentioned in the same sentence as former bandmate Eric Clapton, but this lesser-known legend was making better music than just about anyone during the earliest days of the prog-rock revolution.
