A huge, ginormous happy 15th birthday to one of the greatest rock albums of all time, and certainly a top-ten album of the prog era, SPACE REVOLVER!
–your devoted friends at progarchy.com
Metal Mondays: Haken — Restoration EP
Please support this awesome band by buying the EP!
Their name is Scandinavian (rhymes with “bacon”) but the band is actually English and based in London.
This is some of the best prog ever.
I can’t wait to hear the next studio album from this band, which has been performing at their peak ever since The Mountain.
Colorado Prog Lovers: Kevin Anderson Signings
News from Kevin Anderson, Hugo-nominated sci-fi writer, lyricist for Roswell Six, and friend of Neil Peart:
Denver Rush fans, Thursday is Rush Night at Denver Hard Rock Cafe. I’ll be autographing Clockworks in all incarnations, giving away sampler booklets for CLOCKWORK LIVES, and debuting the new CL Tarot Card decks *and* the slipcased Graphic Novel! Starts at 7 PM.
From “Best Boy Electric” to “Sing to Me”: Steven Wilson on Tim Bowness
Steven Wilson posts on Facebook:
My buddy from no-man, Tim Bowness, releases his fantastic new album Stupid Things That Mean the World on 17th July, a follow up to last year’s Abandoned Dancehall Dreams. I mixed and played a little on that one, but although I’m not directly involved in the new album, Tim has recorded a song for it that we wrote and demoed for No-Man 20 years ago! At that time the song was called Best Boy Electric, but the final finished album track has been retitled Sing to Me. … You can hear our original demo fragment from 1994 on the bonus CD that comes with initial copies of the album.
Pre-order for the July 17 release from Burning Shed:
CD 1 – Stupid Things That Mean The World
1. The Great Electric Teenage Dream 3.58
2. Sing To Me 5.46
3. Where You’ve Always Been 4.07
4. Stupid Things That Mean The World 3.05
5. Know That You Were Loved 6.44
6. Press Reset 3.54
7. All These Escapes 3.06
8. Everything You’re Not 3.40
9. Everything But You 1.12
10. Soft William 1.40
11. At The End Of The Holiday 4.58CD 2 – Stupid Things That Meant The World
1. Stupid Things That Mean The World (alternate) (Nick Magnus mix) 3.09
2. Best Boy Electric (Sing To Me) (1994 No-Man demo) (Steven Wilson mix) 1.58
3. Know That You Were Loved (alternate, David Rhodes ‘electric version’) (Stephen Bennett mix) 6.29
4. I Still Miss You (Stupid Things That Mean The World, UXB ‘Ambient’ Mix) 6.13
Happy Birthday, Lisa Mallen!
To one of our favorite English proggers. Hounds of love, indeed.
Ready for the Primo S***
You’re not ready to step into the Court of the Crimson King, but let’s go back to the egg for some Sunday evening inspiration:
And remember, no air-drumming this time “Bruford can change the timing up so fast it could snap your wrists.”
Half-Way Through 2015 – The Best So Far – Part 1
So far, 2015 has been absolutely huge in terms of the sheer amount of great music that has been released. In fact, the first six months have been ridiculously strong. As such, it is very difficult to bring you my half-way round-up in the normal way – there’s just too much to fit in. And also, I have reviewed a fair number of the albums as well, so I didn’t want to repeat myself too much.
Therefore, I thought I’d celebrate by creating a more punchy couple of posts that offer a whistle-stop overview of my favourite music released between January and June 2015. In no particular order, here goes:
Audioplastik – ‘In The Head Of A Maniac’
Bad Elephant Music
From the minds of members of Frost*, Threshold and Darkwater, this was never going to be anything other than brilliant and so it has proved. ‘In The Head Of…
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Half-Way Through 2015 – The Best So Far – Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of my round-up of the very best music that was released during the first six months of 2015.
If you missed it, you can find Part 1 right here:
Half-Way Through 2015 – The Best So Far – Part 1
As I mentioned before, this year has seen some extraordinarily strong albums hit the shelves and so it has been extremely difficult to truncate my list of artists that deserve a place in this round-up. To be honest, if the year stopped here, I’d still have difficulty picking a full-year Top 20 because of the quality on offer. But that’s a headache to be faced at a later date. In the meantime, here’s the next batch of albums that have made a big impression on me so far in 2015:
Lonely Robot ‘Please Come Home’
InsideOut Music
It is a fairly accurate statement to say that…
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Tears For Fears’ Chandler Show – Wild Horse Pass Resort & Casino – 19 June, 2015
Lael has travelled and met up with the Travel Fan Team for several shows. This year she headed off to the Wild Horse Pass Resort and Casino with SnapHappy Pam, another long time travel fan, for the Arizona stop on the tour. Here’s here experience…
Lael and Pam… long time travel fans… 🙂
I connected up with SnapHappy Pam, who takes great pictures and videos of bands, for the TFF show in Chandler, Arizona. She was gracious enough to pick me up at Sky Harbor International Airport. I was highly concerned about the heat that day, as it was expected to get up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit!!
Pam and I also had our work cut out for us, as we needed to find a birthday card for Curt Smith, and gifts for both Curt and Roland Orzabal. We found some nice gifts at the Arizona Mills Shopping Center, but we…
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