Recent

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 5, 20-1

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Music

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 4, 40-21

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Music

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 3, 60-41

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Music

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 2, 80-61

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Music

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 1, 100-81

After gamely attempting to track the 25 best old-school progressive albums of all time, it's inevitable we turn our attention to the best songs of the genre.

Music

How About Some Unironic Love for Emerson, Lake & Palmer?

Love them or loathe them, Emerson, Lake & Palmer wore immoderation like a badge of courage.

Music

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Live in Montreal 1977

A fine collection of ELP doing what ELP was known for: flashy sounds, lengthy compositions, and gaudy playing. Brilliant and complex, yet soulless and repetitive.

Music

The Day the (AM) Music Died

There are songs played on AM radio that I would never put on at home, or want to hear in a bar or on an iPod; they only seem to sound good on a tinny AM receiver, especially the one in my car.

Jay Somerset

Music

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Works Volume 1 and 2

This was a statement album, or double-album as the case may be. If ambition was a sin, these guys were on the highway to hell.

Music

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery

The high water mark of goofy progressive rock returns as a reissue.

Music

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends

Prog rock has gone the way of the 8-track. But Emerson, Lake & Palmer were at the top of the heap when it was a happening thing, and their live show was an actual treat.

Music

Pop Ten

The 25 Best Classic Progressive Rock Albums

The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: Part 1: 100 - 81

Jackie Chan's 10 Best Films

The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2009

The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: Part 2: 80 - 61

The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '80s: Part 5: 20 - 1

The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s - Part 1 (100 - 81)

Collapse Expand Pop Ten

Mixed Media

Collapse Expand Mixed Media

PM Picks

Collapse Expand Pm Picks

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 5, 20-1

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 2, 80-61

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

The 100 Best Classic Progressive Rock Songs: Part 1, 100-81

After gamely attempting to track the 25 best old-school progressive albums of all time, it's inevitable we turn our attention to the best songs of the genre.

How About Some Unironic Love for Emerson, Lake & Palmer?

Love them or loathe them, Emerson, Lake & Palmer wore immoderation like a badge of courage.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Live in Montreal 1977

A fine collection of ELP doing what ELP was known for: flashy sounds, lengthy compositions, and gaudy playing. Brilliant and complex, yet soulless and repetitive.

The Day the (AM) Music Died

There are songs played on AM radio that I would never put on at home, or want to hear in a bar or on an iPod; they only seem to sound good on a tinny AM receiver, especially the one in my car.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Works Volume 1 and 2

This was a statement album, or double-album as the case may be. If ambition was a sin, these guys were on the highway to hell.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery

The high water mark of goofy progressive rock returns as a reissue.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends

Prog rock has gone the way of the 8-track. But Emerson, Lake & Palmer were at the top of the heap when it was a happening thing, and their live show was an actual treat.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Live at Montreux 1997 [DVD]

The Ugly and Unlistenable Death Spiral of Eddie Van Halen

Josh Rouse Gets Us in the Holiday Spirit With "Sleigh Brother Bill" (premiere + interview)

Parker Gispert Re-Imagines Sinatra Classic "That's Life" (premiere + interview)

Samuel Jack Lays Bare His Mental Health Struggle on "In My Head" (premiere)

The Stone Foxes Set the Spotlight on San Francisco's Homelessness Epidemic in "Million Dollar Shoes" (premiere)

Folk Rock's the Dales Contemplate "Easy Times" (premiere)

Mellotron Variations Inspire With "Went Home to Meet Konrad" (premiere)

Stand and Sway Take It "One Day at a Time" (premiere)

EG Vines' 'Family Business' Seeks to Find the Humanity in Others (album stream) (premiere)

Yasser Tejeda and Vicente García Break Down Borders with "Amor Arrayano" (premiere)

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends. It's the 100 best classic progressive rock songs.

After gamely attempting to track the 25 best old-school progressive albums of all time, it's inevitable we turn our attention to the best songs of the genre.

Love them or loathe them, Emerson, Lake & Palmer wore immoderation like a badge of courage.

A fine collection of ELP doing what ELP was known for: flashy sounds, lengthy compositions, and gaudy playing. Brilliant and complex, yet soulless and repetitive.

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.

There are songs played on AM radio that I would never put on at home, or want to hear in a bar or on an iPod; they only seem to sound good on a tinny AM receiver, especially the one in my car.

This was a statement album, or double-album as the case may be. If ambition was a sin, these guys were on the highway to hell.

The high water mark of goofy progressive rock returns as a reissue.

Prog rock has gone the way of the 8-track. But Emerson, Lake & Palmer were at the top of the heap when it was a happening thing, and their live show was an actual treat.