The Canadian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist is stretching out to a world of possibilities. Mark Barron’s first steps on the road of conversion to prog came from a most unlikely source. Then a teenage guitar player in his own pop-punk band, Embassy, he and his bassist became intrigued by a lyric from Wheatus’ global hit single, […]
Symphonic post-rock pulled from the throes of mourning Pijn’s name is pronounced ‘pine’. “There’s a list on our Google Drive of all the possible pronunciations that we’ve heard so far, and it’s very long,” laughs guitarist and band leader Joe Clayton. “The weirdest one is ‘pinge’ – they were just moving the letters around to […]
“Writing this album has reassured us that it’s good to push each other and break out of our comfort zones,” says Alex Coates. He was the last member to join Manchester’s post-rock quartet Civil Service and has been the one to give them drive and focus since. They wear their melting pot of reverb-soaked inspirations […]
Bouncy Newcastle proggers out to make their genre as accessible as possible Giant Walker want to open up prog metal to the masses. “Someone who wouldn’t necessarily listen to rock or metal liking our music, that would be a win,” says the Newcastle four-piece’s drummer, Alex Black. “I think prog, by itself, is very pigeonholey. […]
“Music is a way to express the deepest parts of being a human,” conceptual pop artist Ebony Buckle begins. “It is a universal language, a way to explain things you can’t always put into sentences.” Music has always been a part of Buckle’s life. Growing up in Townsville, Australia, she was part of a close-knit […]