06/24/2009 : BostonProg to announce Eddie Jobson and “U-Z” at the Regent Theater on August 19th.
(Reprinted from the UKZBand.com site) Eddie Jobson has formed an offshoot ’solo’ project called the “U-Z” Project and is planning a short tour of the U.S. East Coast in ...

05/04/2009 : Keith Emerson Tour Cancelled
Due to a hand injury, Keith is unable to tour this Summer. He’s been trying to work around it. But unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to overcome it. He’s very upset about having to ...

04/29/2009 : BostonProg.org Press Release on Keith Emerson in Concert at The Regent Theatre in Arlington June 9
Press Contact:          Meghan O’Neal/Callanan & Klein Communications (617) 431-1173 meghan@callananklein.com Boston, MA April 27, 2009 – Keyboard legend Keith Emerson kicks summer ...

2009-06-29: Round Table Review: Dream Theater "Black Clouds & Silver Linings"
ALEX: Dream Theater have rightly earned the respect of music fans worldwide for their brand of heavy progressive rock, which they have been writing and performing now for about a quarter of a century. It’s a powerful sounds

2009-06-29: Interview with Kansas & Native Window
This year, Kansas is celebrating their 35th Anniversary, however, another band, featuring fourfifths of the current lineup, will be making their CD debut on June 23rd. Native Window, featuring guitarist Rich Williams, violini

2009-06-29: Review: Native Window
Native Window is the band Kansas, minus vocalist Steve Walsh. It’s a long story, but basically, Kansas continue to be in a creative void, mainly due to the refusal by chief songwriters, Kerry Livgren and Steve Walsh, to wr

2009-06-26: Review: Dream Theater "Black Clouds & Silver Linings"
Progressive rock gets slagged a great deal for its baroque excesses and boyish overblown-ness fueled by hyper-technical playing. But, some folks like their water deep, choppy with portent and rippled with beefy riffage and po

2009-06-25: Audio Interview: Derek Sherinian
Keyboard virtuoso Derek Sherinian has returned with another refreshing album of musical prowess and creativity with a well-known lineup of session musicians joining him on his forthcoming opus “Molecular Heinosity”. I was

2009-06-23: Generate excitement: VdGG
Here’s how answers.com defines a Van der Graaf generator: “An electrostatic generator in which an electric charge is either removed from or transferred to a large hollow spherical electrode by a rapidly moving belt, accel

2009-06-23: Progressive Nations Tour Band Changes
It is with the utmost disappointment that I am forced to share the unfortunate news of both Pain Of Salvation and Beardfish having to pull out of this summer's Progressive Nation tour.... Their label Inside Out just rec

2009-06-22: Album Review: The Mars Volta 'Octahedron'
"Octahedron’’ does not sound like the Mars Volta’s past few records, but it certainly feels like a Mars Volta record, especially in the way it swoops up a listener for an excursion to the psychedelic frontier. Guitarist

2009-06-22: Van Der Graaf rekindles spark for first-ever stop in Hub
In progressive rock circles, Van Der Graaf Generator leader Peter Hammill is the godfather of soul-searching. Armed with a fearsome voice and a piercing way with words, singer/guitarist/keyboardist Hammill counts heavy hitter

2009-06-17: Interview: Paul Richards (CGT)
"It's fun to see the surprise on people's faces when we play something in a completely different style than they expect," says Paul Richards, a founding member of the California Guitar Trio. The group brings its solid 18 year

2009-06-12: Obituary: Hugh Hopper, 64, bassist for rock band Soft Machine
Hugh Hopper, who as the bassist for the British progressive rock band Soft Machine was a central figure in the forward-looking music scene that bloomed in Canterbury in the 1960s and 1970s, died June 7 in the county of Kent,

2009-06-11: Review: Hands "Prism"
Unlike rock and roll or blues, the American progressive rock scene has had a long standing identity problem next to its British counterpart. Led by the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Cream, and herds of other artists,

2009-06-08: Interview: Peter Nicholls of IQ
When you say neo-progressive rock, England's IQ is one of the first bands to come to mind; they might have not have had the slight MTV airplay that Marillion did during the eighties, but alongside Pendragon and Pallas, they l

2009-06-08: Review: Deus Ex Machina "Imparis"
In my mind, I still think of Deus Ex Machina as one of the new wave of Italian prog bands, but their first album came out eighteen years ago! Blimey! Deus Ex Machina are closer in sound to bands with a jazz fusion slant l

2009-06-07: A concept whose time has come - again
Picture this: A young couple confronts a changing world and wrestles with issues of religion, politics, patriotism, and family. Or how about this scenario: A damsel is in distress after being accosted by a shape-shifting a