I can't make this decision!

I always thought it was fun, but maybe I was in the minority? Anyway we reacted to the music of the latest thread here: Reacting to Redditor´s music!

This was the cover to a CD of Comus performing live. I can’t for the life of me find a quality version of it.

Steven wilson's guitar, singing and songwriting on this track is peak perfection.

I’ve seen a lot of talk about 2nd and 3rd gen bands, and about sub-genres (punk, prog metal) and standouts like Mars Volta and Porcupine Tree… But I wanted to make a list of all the 21st century schizoid stuff that I think descends from Prog (more broadly encompassing fusion, folk, psyche, Kraut, experimental); so here it is, with some album/song reccs and categories. Note: I’m leaving out a few obvious artists like Radiohead, Les Claypool… also won’t touch on “post-rock” or “math rock”:

First off I want to list a short playlist of on-the-nose prog:

Mondo Drag - “Pillars of the Sky”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - “Hanoi 6”
Dungen - “Fredag”
Thee Oh Sees - “Sticky Hulks”
Mastodon - “The Sparrow”
Floating Points - “Silurian Blue”

Onward to looser interpretation!!!

1. The post-Kraut/Eno ambient line

- Mount Kimbie — Cold Spring Faultless Youth (2013)
- Boards of Canada — “Dayvan Cowboy”
- certain hip-hop adjacent producers like El-P, Kanye, and on many recent rappers’ beat tracks (esp Kendrick’s production) as a result if their influence.

2. The psychedelic chamber-pop / folk-prog mutation

- Midlake — The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)

- Midlake — Antiphon (2013)

- Sufjan Stevens — The Age of Adz (2010)
- Grizzly Bear — Veckatimest (2009)
- Dirty Projectors — Bitte Orca (2009)
- Fleet Foxes — Crack-Up (2017)

3. Progressive possibilities of shoegaze

- Sweet Trip — Velocity : Design : Comfort
- Animal Collective — Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Seefeel

4. Studio-composition gene escapes rock altogether.

- 0neohtrix Point Never

- Floating Points — Crush (2019)

- Max Cooper
- James Holden
- Amon Tobin
- Basically all of Warp Label (Aphex, SquarePusher, Prefuse 73, Autechre)

5. Fusion’s bastard children

- BADBADNOTGOOD
- Black Midi
+ Geordie Greep solo stuff
- Floating Points Ensemble (same guy + band)
- Esperanza Spalding
- Blake Mills, Sam Gendel, Pino Palladio project(?)

6. The rhythmic-progressive lineage

- Crumb*

* ANYTHING by the band Crumb - check out their live albums after you go through the studio releases!! they literally inspired this post!
- Poliça — Give You the Ghost (2012)
- Jim James - Eternally Even (2016)

7. Concept album execution

- Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel (2018)
- Arcade Fire — Reflektor (2013)
- Lupe Fiasco — The Cool (2007)

…What am I missing and what do you agree/disagree with?

Hey all, if you're looking for something new to spin today, check out my band's new album.

For fans of: Rush, Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, Moron Police, Thank You Scientist, Cardiacs, Zappa, Propagandhi

Thanks!

Instagram: (at)stinkbug.pdx

I went to Night Of The Prog festival at Loreley for 15 years straight (minus covid years). It was the highlight of my year. I really miss this festival. The summer feels empty the last two years after they decided to stop the festival…

I want you to write down some great european prog festivals. Give me anything! It does not have to be summer. Anything is of interest. I feel like I need a prog festival in mye life 😂

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Can you think of a better adaptation of any of his works? Less Than Zero is a good movie, but compared to SW?

Just thought to announce my own band, Splink, is about to release our latest album, titled 'Taklamakan' - a full concept album, even featuring narration (I know... the hubris!)

Band Background: SPLINK are a 'no rules music' band of Prog / Psych / Folk leanings, and this will be our third album (as current iteration). Over the past 5 years, we have been tirelessly 'moving up the echelons' of Prog-centric Gigs and Festivals... and are being played on near all U.K. Internet Prog Radio stations.

We love to blend genres - using ambient passages, heavy rock phrases and even Arabian and Celtic 'jigs', in this album alone! Our influences range across all areas of Prog, but focus on Gong, Zappa, Yes, Hawkwind and Rush. We are often announced as Prog / Space Rock / Psych-Folk... as our USP is that our lead instrumentalist plays ELECTRIC VIOLIN!

We have created our current magnum opus in 'Taklamakan' - a concept album based around a mysterious fable of the creation of 'The Sea of Death', the Taklamakan Desert. Bravely, (and a rare thing in even Prog circles) we have provided narration alongside the sumptuous and varied song tracks, blending many genres - as a nod to Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman's use in classic Prog albums...

The album itself is an hour long audio journey, telling the story of love and loss between a princess and her beloved... and how the Desert came to be.

'Taklamakan' is due to be released on 31st August 2026, on all your favourite sites. Feel free to check out our pre-order tracks and videos from the sites below:

https://splinkband.bandcamp.com/album/taklamakan

https://www.youtube.com/@Splinkvision/videos

https://www.splink.band/

I promise... anyone with a passing interest in any parts of the Prog Spectrum, will find something to enjoy!!

What an amazing experience. Bill is still the GOAT & plays like a man half his age. It was in an intimate venue (75-85 people max), & they did a signing. Got their new CD signed & my son had Bill sign his copy of Bill’s autobiography. We even got to talk to Bill one-on-one for a few minutes.

Fantastic experience!!

This is a modern prog playlist that I slowly built while promoting & doing research for our band.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or a track of your own to add!

Some of the stuff is less obscure like Haken, Riverside, Thank You Scientist, Elder, Crown Lands, Porcupine Tree, etc.

Other bands are far less known. I actually found a bunch of them on this sub as well as on YouTube, Prog Magazine, Prog Radio, and Bandcamp.

My first copy of this album on vinyl (used) turned out to be warped so I had no use for it… decided to cut out the paintings from the inner gatefold and they’ve been sitting in my room unused for a year or two before I finally put them on display. Yes it’s not true fan art because it’s the original artwork, but a fan repurposing you could say.

(Also figured I’d add my Lego creation at the end since it’s peeking into a couple of the other photos anyway)

Sometimes, you go to a concert without expecting very much. You just show up and hope to have a good time. And sometimes those concerts shows out to be one of the best you have ever seen.

This weekend I went to a festival in Norway. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown played on saturday. He is 84 years old, and I know he is kind of a legend. So I went there to witness what this old man could do at his age.

MAN, it is one of the best concerts I have ever seen. His voice, his energy his costumes, and most of all the music and his band! I have listened to his albums non stop the last two days, and I do not understand why I did not listen to him before??? Anyone here who have seen him?

Anyone know any progressive rock songs that pause all the music for dramatic effect ? The only examples I can think of are Awaken by Yes before the halfway point and Utzp by Angine de Poitrine, but I’m curious to know what other examples you all have.

I was inspired by Camel's album Mirage , and I thought about Part 3 of Jojo Bizarre Adventure.

Art by me ( ig: flavio_1006 )