Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

Sananda Maitreya has a plan for reconnecting with his old music. Should his grandchildren become curious about their grandad’s career, he’ll sit down with them and listen to those classic early albums

NEAL MORSE

Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins ’ era-defining big, bold, bombastic masterpiece Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness .

The band’s prodigal son, Mike Portnoy, takes your questions on dance music, sausages and recording with Avenged Sevenfold

The Accidental EARMUSIC