The United States as big as it is generally exports a lot of its music from the four corners; Seattle, New York, California and Florida. Of course there are a growing number of places within the country’s borders that are pushing out loads of new music and stretching the limits of the Prog genre and…
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Steven Wilson, Toronto Spectacular @ Massey Hall March 1st 2016
Steven Wilson…Nothing short of AMAZING last night at Toronto’s Massey Hall with but one slight discouragement, the curfew on Toronto concerts at 11pm. GRRRR!!!! Yep it’s been I don’t know how many years since the city evoked such a ridiculous rule but it truncated Steven Wilson’s second set ever so slightly. That said, it was…
In To The Darkest Depths of Prog with Porcupine Tree’s In Absentia Album
16 tracks that leave you standing alone barefoot in the rain at the end of a gravel road littered with broken glass, empty cans & debris by the time it’s over contemplating your very existence after having barbarically assaulted your mind and senses with this record. An absolute must have album and one of my…
Steven Wilson, 4 1/2; Album Review
One of my favourite voices in Prog Rock, Steven Wilson. Having seen him for the first time live last March at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto I was blown away by his stage presence, humour, theatrics, music and his love for what he does. He returns to Toronto, Tuesday, March 1st at Massey Hall,…
Prog Rock Magazine’s Top 100 Artists of All Time, Selected Review
I have always been opposed to “lists” of the Top 100 this or Top 10 that, whatever it may be because every band has a different spin on what their Progginess exudes. It’s like comparing apples to tires and oranges to diamonds in a fish’s stomach. It just doesn’t make sense to me, never has,…
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