Joan shelley

The past few years have been marked by change for JOAN SHELLEY and her family – from parenthood to relocating from Louisville, Kentucky to the shores of Lake Michigan and recording sessions in Toronto with The Weather Station crew. But her graceful, heartfelt songs have never sounded better. “Living by a bay that is beautiful and blue, and the sky is big because it’s over this lake. Those big feelings, those big spaces to think in, are greater,” she tells Ana Gavrilovska. “They bring more richness to my life”

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

Kate Bush ’s fifth album combines hit singles with a seven-song conceptual suite, all expressing the unmistakable style of one of progressive music’s most uncompromising visionaries. To mark 40 years of inspiration, The Anchoress, Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel, Auri’s Johanna Kurkela, The Blackheart Orchestra’s Chrissy Mostyn and Exploring Birdsong’s Lynsey Ward celebrate the enduring magic and influence of Hounds Of Love .

Rock’s eternal adolescent contemplates mortality, cheerfully.

WHILE MOST DUAL-GUITAR bands tend to have designated roles in terms of what kind of sonic space their members occupy, Momma six-stringers Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten enjoy being unrestricted,

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.