Prog rock

More than just a dancer.

“He’s a perfect example of himself.”

The progressive rock band Seiche was a Chicago trio that existed for a brief period in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Though they weren’t around for…

Henry Cow was one of the most distinctive (okay, difficult) of England’s ’70s prog-rock groups. They are impossible to categorize and are totally an acquired…

Canadian guitarist Bob Bell released a monster of a debut album, Necropolis, in 1978. This obscure private press LP is about to be reissued, so…

For some the question is Prog Rock–who’s to blame? But that’s more than a tad unfair. For at its heart Progressive Rock was about great…

Prokofiev’s orchestral composition/children’s story Peter and the Wolf is familiar to everyone who had to take music appreciation as a schoolkid: briefly, a young boy…

Samla Mammas Manna was a prog rock band that was active during the 1970s and later that seems to have been Sweden’s closest approximation to…

Mike Oldfield’s 1973 recording of Tubular Bells is the most famous prog rock “symphony” of them all—and a bit of a “love it or hate…

Piblokto is an Inuit word describing a “dissociative fugue state, usually occurring in Inuit women, in which the afflicted person screams, tears off her clothes,…