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  In-Depth6 months ago

  Grand Designs: What Makes Epic Music?

  How (and why) did musicians make epic music? There's no one answer, as this race through the history of popular music shows.

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  Features6 months ago

  Small But Mighty: When the Flute Flew High in Rock

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  Features7 months ago

  The Greatest Prog Rock Singers: A Top 30 Countdown

  The prog rock world has no lack of virtuosity, with its guitar heroes, keyboard wizards, and bass and drum monsters but this list salutes the proggers whose instrument was their vocal cords.

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  Features8 months ago

  The Visual History Behind The Greatest Prog Rock Album Covers

  Few kinds of music are more inherently visual than prog rock. The music lends itself to elaborate flights of fantasy, which is why prog-rock album covers are an art form on their...

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  Features10 months ago

  The Canterbury Scene: How A Bunch of Bookish Bohemians Became The Monty Pythons of Prog

  In the late 60s, the quaint, historic city of Canterbury birthed a scene defined by its breezy, jazz-influenced vibe, quirky lyrics, and refusal to take itself too seriously.

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  Features11 months ago

  25 Greatest Prog Rock Albums Of All Time

  Side-long concept pieces, walls of Mellotrons, keyboardists in capes...such were the glories of the greatest prog rock albums.

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  Features11 months ago

  ‘Rain Dances’: Camel Rise To The Punk Competition

  The band's fifth album made the UK Top 20 at the height of the new wave movement.

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  Features12 months ago

  10 Must-Own Prog Albums

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  Features1 year ago

  Best Psychedelic Albums: 30 Essential Records To Expand Your Mind

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  Artists1 year ago

  Caravan

  For hundreds of years Canterbury has been a place of pilgrimage, but for one band it was the place from which they set out on a pilgrimage into Prog.

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  News2 years ago

  Four Prog Rock Milestones By Caravan Head To 180 Gram Vinyl

  The releases further acknowledge Caravan's importance in developing the progressive and experimental style that became known as the Canterbury Sound.

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  Playlists2 years ago

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  Features2 years ago

  The Plumpton Festival – The Place To Be In 1969

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  News2 years ago

  Progressive Rock Mainstays Caravan Celebrated With 9-CD Box Set

  The set features expanded editions of all of the albums that Caravan recorded for Decca's Deram label in the first half of the 1970s.