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Haken – Affinity

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this decade, you’ll have no doubt heard of Haken, the latest truly progressive band to take the world by storm. Despite being able to be broadly categorised with the humdrum tag of ‘prog-metal’,…

Stick Men feat. David Cross – Midori: Live In Tokyo 2015

So who are Stick Men? They are the latest incarnation of one of Tony Levin’s personal band projects. Tony Levin should need no introduction. The original line-up of Stick Men appeared in 2007 and included Pat Mastelotto (who had hits…

Nad Sylvan – Courting The Widow

Nad Sylvan has come to more prominence in the Progressive rock world in recent years for his role as vocalist with Steve Hackett as they have recorded and extensively toured the Genesis Revisited II album around the world. It has…

Motorpsycho – Here Be Monsters

Given the relatively sparse population of Scandinavia, it seems that everyone living in the land of the Vikings must know someone in a band, such is the vast size and scope of the area’s music scene. In this genre-obsessed world,…

Southern Empire – Southern Empire

Time “is the fire in which we burn” (Forest Fire). The aching awareness of our mortality, the relentless, incessant and seemingly quicker passing of the years forces the uncomfortable recognition that there is more behind us than lies ahead and…

Grice – Alexandrine

Grice Peters is a London-based multi-instrumentalist and art rock singer-songwriter who has built himself quite a reputation in left-field pop circles since the 2012 release of his consummate alt-pop debut album Propeller. It helped that he was assisted by a…