Guitarist Robert Fripp is best known for his work in King Crimson, which has gone through several iterations with Fripp as the only constant member. But he’s had his finger...
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Peter Gabriel got his start as the front man for UK prog-rockers Genesis. He split from Genesis after their landmark prog-rock album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, but he...
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Genesis first came to prominence as a progressive rock band fronted by Peter Gabriel, who left after their classic album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974). After the departure...
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Ah, the pleasures of listening to Rush when you’re a boy in early high school…. I remember them well. Their music doesn’t hold up as well as I’d hoped it...
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Prog-rock has been the butt of many a rock critic joke, and for good reason: much prog-rock is guilty of that most embarrassing of rock-and-roll insecurities—trying to make rock music...
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Formed in Paris in the late ‘60s by Australian singer and guitarist Daevid Allen and British singer Gilli Smyth, with additional British and French musicians, Gong was a truly international...
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Some consider Amon Düül the first Krautrock band, and they may indeed be the first German rock band to make waves internationally—but the music they create doesn’t fit exactly with…
Blending psychedelic rock with jazz and other influences, the Soft Machine emerged from the Canterbury music scene playing a variety of prog rock characterized by a sense of playfulness lacking...
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