Shell beach

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

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Our far-out trip to far-flung prog

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b

Manchester quartet hit heavy and soft with radiant prog sound.