After the recent launch of the official prog chart, Joe Connell examines the place that an often caricatured genre has in music today

Cassie Hyde felt like stirring the waters, so we sent her three classic prog rock albums by Yes, King Crimson and Rush. Here’s what she made of them

This band are destined to be bombarded with comparisons, but no one in the room seemed to be taking this as a negative

Zakk Brown questions whether the change in Viet Cong’s band name affected their artistic direction

After seven releases in five years, Alex G’s flame is burning out a little

Le Butcherettes seal their position as one of the most inventive bands around

Hannah Wants’ bass-heavy sound delights the Warehouse Project crowd

Luke Hart runs us through this Friday’s Warehouse Project

Lewis Boardman looks to shake up Warehouse Project this Saturday

Having been developing their sound for a few years, nothing on this album delivers the punch that many had hoped Foals would have achieved by now

Like a priest with severe halitosis, their preaching to the choir left Joe Connell feeling queasy about both the music and the cause

Richard Hawley has created an intimate record with musical subtlety to match

The Texan guitar god moves one album closer to the mantle of blues rock legend

“Throughout most of her performance, she was leaping and pirouetting across the stage like a ballerina on a caffeine high”

After a successful summer in Ibiza, Sankeys is opening its doors in Manchester once again

19 year-old Essex boy Jordan Cardy (Rat Boy) kept his show snappy, and gave out some snapbacks to his fans

Massachusetts punk band Speedy Ortiz’s texting hotline is a small but important step to making moshpits a safer place

Floating Points hits the sweet spot with a rich wax arsenal at his disposal

Rob Paterson review’s Sun Coming Down, the new album of band Ought

Quite in-keeping with the album’s title, Jacob Bernard-Banton has mixed feelings about Good Bad Happy Sad