Steve Hackett is to release a new live DVD/CD set recorded at Symphony Hall, Birmingham in May 2017 during his Genesis Revisited tour, when he performed most of Wind and Wuthering on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. TPA’s John…
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Edgar Froese – Tangerine Dream
Edgar Froese was planning for Tangerine Dream to continue after his death, as we now know from the release of Particles and Quantum Gate in 2017, but this interview took place about 8 months before he sadly died in January…
View More Edgar Froese – Tangerine DreamSpecial Providence – Will
This is the fifth and latest album from Hungarian band Special Providence, a Jazz/Proto Metal band who mix jazz fusion interludes with a prog metallic crunch and attack, and yet still manage to create some great sounding grooves to work…
View More Special Providence – WillEmerson Lake & Palmer – Black Moon / In The Hot Seat [2017 Remasters]
I guess like many I was drawn to the music of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer in the early 1970s when I was in my youth, and especially to the Brain Salad Surgery and Pictures At An Exhibition…
View More Emerson Lake & Palmer – Black Moon / In The Hot Seat [2017 Remasters]Kansas – Leftoverture Live & Beyond
This is the new live release from U.S. pomp rockers Kansas, celebrating 40 years of their breakthrough album, Leftoverture, which is featured in its entirety alongside some old classics, little performed number and three tracks from their 2016 release, The…
View More Kansas – Leftoverture Live & BeyondBad Touch / Mollie Marriott / Anonymous
Foxglove Arts Centre, Leek, Staffordshire Friday, 10th November 2017 Leek is a small market town that lies equidistant between Stoke on Trent in the south, Buxton in the East and Macclesfield in the North, and the Foxglove Arts Centre is…
View More Bad Touch / Mollie Marriott / AnonymousStevie Westwood – Bad Touch
On the eve of their recent debut headlining tour, TPA’s John Wenlock-Smith spoke to Bad Touch singer Stevie Westwood about the genesis of the band and new album, Truth Be Told. You can also find John’s review of the gig…
View More Stevie Westwood – Bad TouchVon Hertzen Brothers – War Is Over
This is the seventh album from Finland’s Von Hertzen Brothers and it sees a return to a more prog influenced sound after the last two albums which were more straightforward AOR/Rock. I think that on the strength of the material…
View More Von Hertzen Brothers – War Is OverSimen Lyngroth – Take All The Land
I am, as any who knows me will testify, fascinated by new music in its many guises, and if something catches my interest I will seek it out. This album is one such example. I read about it on a…
View More Simen Lyngroth – Take All The LandStray – All In Your Mind (The Transatlantic Years 1970-1974)
This rather fabulous box set contains every track that Stray recorded for Transatlantic over a five year tenure with the label, encompassing five full album, various B-sides and a few obscure rarities, generously spread across 4 CDs and with a…
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