Finding Their Way: Rush’s Debut Album at 50
Fifty years after its release, progressive rockers Rush’s debut album remains an important stepping stone in the Canadian trio’s long journey to success.
Fifty years after its release, progressive rockers Rush’s debut album remains an important stepping stone in the Canadian trio’s long journey to success.
With its antiseptic sound, The Spectrum ’97 box set can’t adequately substitute for what it was like to be there at a 1990s Phish show.
Queen’s 1974 sophomore album, Queen II is an overlooked progressive rock masterpiece that predicted so much of their later work. It’s also still enormous fun.
Steve Hackett proves he’s still a force to be reckoned with in progressive rock. He delivers an album worthy of his legacy while pointing to the future.
The Gen-X rockers from Buffalo, New York, Moe, transcend recent tribulations with an old-fashioned Saturday night rager at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
During their heyday, Supertramp created a run of progressive-pop albums so intricate and irresistibly catchy, as to redefine what AOR radio could sound like.
No British album better synthesized the warmth, energy, and funkiness of New Orleans R&B, Southern soul, and rock better than Traffic’s 1968 self-titled LP.
“If there was an agenda, it was to not have an agenda at all,” Steven Wilson says of his seventh solo LP, The Harmony Codex, in this extended interview.
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 set the template for nerdy Coheed and Cambria’s future releases. It remains a fan favorite and one of their best.
Goose are one of those bands that must be seen in the live setting to “get” what they’re all about and feel the full impact of their high-level tone science.
The “anything goes, no guardrails” mentality of Styx’s The Serpent Is Rising is precisely what early 1970s rock and roll was supposed to be all about.
Early 1970s Britain was blighted by high inflation, industrial action, and power cuts, and the three-day work week. Tubular Bells‘ turbulent emotions mirror the era’s deep anxieties.