If All Goes Wrong.. The Interview with Aaron Clift

As promised, we have part II of the Aaron Clift Experiment review with an interview with Aaron Clift himself! Aaron and I have been talking for a while now and I am very happy to bring you this interview with him. He’s a great song writer, musician and friend that is really showing the Prog…

If All Goes Wrong… Call The Aaron Clift Experiment

When one thinks of Texas the thoughts that come to mind are; Longhorns, Ten Gallon hats, southwestern food, people all called Bubba and good ol’ hospitality and not really Progressive music. The stereotypes are abundant about one of the biggest states in continental USA but those stereotypes are shattered by a band from Austin, Texas……

Scott Lawlor Reveals the Revelations that Bring Good Fortune to Sound

Truly you know when someone is very submersed in to the music of The Pink Floyd. Like myself Scott Lawlor draws upon the sounds that the band pushed through his speakers when he first was introduced to them and it just didn’t stop there. Listening to The Pink Floyd just isn’t putting on a band’s…

Obscured by Scott and the Secrets Beyond the Temple

If you had to submerge your self in to history, time and space you would come across the music of Scott Lawlor. A man no stranger to the world of; Prog, Ambient, Experimental and certainly to the ethereal mind of sound. Inspired by the early albums of The Pink Floyd Scott has brought his mastery…

The Doors; Borderline Prog Prototype Blueprints

So we’ve all known to either love or hate The Doors over the years. I’ve loved them since I was 6 listening to them in my sister’s room sitting on the floor doing my homework, probably colouring at best! But STILL, became a big Doors fan to a HUGE Doors fan by the time I…

Künstler Scheiße….. Could It Be Any More? Yes, Yes It Could with Alex’s Hand

Album artwork often speaks volumes to the future and potential listener and this one is a perfect example of, “You MUST listen to this record!” Why? Just look at it!  It’s so funky it smells of pure Zappa-esque cartooning meets Fritz the Cat animation style with a distant but subtle touch to hardcore English band…

Radio Silence… This Album is Anything but and Exovex Brings Forth its Debut Out of Silence

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…

Your Outer Light is their Inner Darkness with The Aaron Clift Experiment

They say everything’s bigger in Texas and like many of the other states that we have discovered Prog bands in on our blogging escapades here with yours truly, Texas isn’t renowned for turning out Prog music. But that has since changed with, “The Aaron Clift Experiment” from Austin. Their second album is eight tracks of…

BOO! Abigail’s Ghost Haunting Heavy Prog, Selling Insincerity Album

So, Heavy Prog, Progressive Metal, Prog Metal, any of those do? Having never given the genre any thought or consideration because I never really thought the twain shall meet but some of the following are considered to be some of the best in business; “Queensryche“, “Fates Warning“, “Mastodon“, “Opeth“, “Symphony X“, and of course, “Dream…

Mixed Bandmates & Fusion Confusion with A Helmet of Gnats

Well let’s go look at Prog’s other facets besides Experimental Krautrock and have a look at jazz-fusion bands like this one, “A Helmet of Gnats“. Jazz-Fusion Prog the more artsier side of things and more instrumental aspect of the genre I find for the most part but definitely a meaty staple in the world that…

Seven Second Circle — One Last Song from the Divide Ep

With great thanks to Thom and the band for sending me a copy of their Divide Ep which contains five songs but one of them is the treat here, a song called “Incomplete” that is not on their debut album. This song was from their days as the band, Henry’s Child in the 90’s but…

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,…