There are a few things we need to acknowledge now that Greg Lake and Keith Emerson have passed away, in this same year in which we lost Bowie, in which we lost Prince and Phife Dawg and Merle Haggard and Leonard Cohen. You don’t care about the first two guys at all, much less as […]
Fossil Records: GAA’s Auf Der Bahn Zum Uranus
In all honesty, I’m a bit surprised it’s taken me as long as it has to feature a progressive rock album in this column: given how quickly prog flamed out, and the low standing in popular music it carries to this day, it’s no surprise that there are dozens if not hundreds of records from […]
Sound Chasers: The Persistence of Progressive Rock
Just a couple of weeks ago we lost David Bowie, one of the last iconic rock stars and a tireless musical innovator. Throughout dozens of albums, Bowie melted and bent pop music into sometimes unrecognizable but mostly delightful and always interesting shapes. His was a high-profile death, and he leaves a glowering void in his […]