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Renaissance drummer Terry Sullivan has died

Terry Sullivan, drummer with Renaissance's classic 1970s lineup, has died. The news was confirmed by Renaissance singer Annie ...
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South London post-punks evolve their sound, stay utterly unique

Balancing this intensity are cuts like The Cute Things and the titular Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy), ...
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"We’ve not got too many years left so every gig is sacred...you appreciate it more." Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris on 50 years of heavy metal - and what comes next

Steve Harris discusses the band's amazing career, celebrating 50 years and what the future may yet hold for metal's most ...
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Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with

One last album, one last extensive tour, over and out. The flame-haired thrash god has plotted a dignified course into ...
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"Something has to change this. We know what to do. Rise up." One of rock music's most respected voices says that Donald Trump is "destroying America" with the sup…

Neil Young has called out US President Donald Trump for making America a "disaster", and called on US citizens to "rise up" ...
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Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Asia, Caravan, Focus and more lined up for huge new prog cruise taking place this summer

Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Asia, members of Focus and Caravan and Damian Wilson and Adam Wakeman are among the artists who ...
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“He was grateful just to play some music rather than just dwell on death”: When two members of Yes and one member of Led Zeppelin got together, anything could hav…

The demise of the world’s biggest rock band coincided with two prog icons’ descent into bewilderment. The only evidence of ...
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"Towering riffs come to them as easily as dreaming does to the rest of us": Alter Bridge are at their most Alter Bridge on the unwaveringly confident Alter Bridge

Wisely, they haven’t messed with the Alter Bridge formula on their eighth album. Going down the self-titled route is, in most ...
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Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective

Beyond his work with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman and others, plus comparisons to Rush, ELP and krautrock, a ...
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"Any money I will make I will happily give away to others. Print that, because I will stand by that!" He said it would be "counter-productive" if his band's debut album …

"And then I listened to it a couple more times, and by the third time I was like, This is the guy I think I’ve wanted to be ...
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“Playing in space would be a fitting climax!” Megadeth are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

We go inside the brutal and brilliant new movie about ex- Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno, Alien Weaponry take us bungee ...
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Arena singer Damian Wilson to leave the band at the end of this year. Paul Manzi to return...

UK prog rockers Arena have announced that singer Damian Wilson will part ways with the band at the end of this year. At the same time, however, the news that Wilson's predecessor, Paul Manzi, will ...