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Ready, Freddie: How The Game Changed Queen 40 Years Ago

June 29, 2020June 30, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, Another One Bites The Dust, Brian May, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Queen, Roger Taylor, The Game

In 1980, the arena-rock royals’ finest moment embraced disco, rockabilly, and more

Progressive Rock

For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Us: Jethro Tull’s ‘Benefit’ at 50

June 27, 2020June 29, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 1970, Beardfish, Benefit, Big Big Train, Chrysalis Records, Cream, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Martin Barre, Mick Abrahams, Phideaux Xavier, Rikard Sjöblom

Fifty years later, Benefit remains one of Jethro Tull’s most ageless, individualized and tight records

New Wave Progressive Rock Rock

Geopolitical Jams and No Cymbals: Peter Gabriel (3) at 40

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, Biko, Games Without Frontiers, Genesis, Melt, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Public Image Ltd., Robert Fripp

How Peter Gabriel’s melting face set the pace for the ’80s

Progressive Rock

In the Wake of a Dissolved Court

May 28, 2020 Ryan Maffei 2 Comments 1970, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, In The Wake Of Poseidon, Kanye West, King Crimson, Michael Giles, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Robert Fripp

Remembering King Crimson’s In the Wake of Poseidon, 50 years later

New Wave Pop Progressive Rock

ALBUMS: Notes On Notes On A Conditional Form

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 2020, Dirty Hit, Foster The People, Interscope, Matty Healy, Music For Cars, Notes On A Conditional Form, The 1975, Walk The Moon

Looking at The 1975’s remarkable and confusing new classic

Hard Rock Heavy Metal Progressive Rock

The Amory Wars Arrive: Coheed and Cambria’s Year of the Black Rainbow at 10

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 2010, Claudio Sanchez, Coheed and Cambria, Dream Theater, Mastodon, Muse, Radiohead, Steven Wilson, The Mars Volta, Tool, Year of the Black Rainbow

Ten years on, YOTBR remains an indispensable, enjoyable, and mostly underappreciated addition to the foursome’s remarkable arsenal

Alternative Rock Industrial Pop Progressive Rock Remembrance

Remembering Bill Rieflin

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bill Rieflin, Chris Connelly, Fkea, King Crimson, KMFDM, Krist Noveselic, Martin Atkins, Ministry, R.E.M., Revolting Cocks, RIP, Robert Fripp

R.E.M., Mike Patton, Ministry, Robert Fripp, Krist Noveselic and more honor the passing of a modern rock giant

Electronic Hard Rock Progressive Rock

Never Fading Out: The Bends Turns 25

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 1995, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Jonny Greenwood, My Iron Lung, Pablo Honey, Phil Selway, Radiohead, The Bends, Thom Yorke

With their dynamic second LP, Yorke, Selway, O’Brien and the Greenwood boys carve their own path to iconoclasm

Progressive Rock

Prepare Yourself: Porcupine Tree’s ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ at 25

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1995, Dark Side of the Moon, David Gilmour, Delirium Records, Fear of a Blank Planet, Japan, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson, The Incident, The Orb, The Sky Moves Sideways

In 1995, the band released its third official album, an exemplar of the kind of ethereal space rock that would win over fans of Pink Floyd’s post-Syd Barrett and pre-The Dark Side of the Moon period

Progressive Rock

One (More) Time: King Crimson’s ‘THRAK’ at 25

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1995, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Brian Eno, Frippertronics, King Crimson, Pat Mastelotto, Robert Fripp, THRAK, Tony Levin

Celebrating a quarter century of the prog greats’ double trio era

New Wave Pop Progressive Rock Rock

LISTEN: Peter Gabriel at 70–A Rock & Roll Globe Playlist

February 13, 2020February 26, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 70th Birthday, Genesis, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Scratch, So. Up, Us

Celebrating 7 decades of life and a half century of music with a stroll through the catalog of the Godfather of Global Pop

Folk Progressive Rock

Stormwatch: The Final Fling for Jethro Tull’s Classic Lineup

February 7, 2020February 10, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, Chrysalis Records, Heavy Horses, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull, Martin Barre, Rhino, Songs from the Wood, Stormwatch

With death, dissolution and the ’80s looming, they dug deep for one last blast

Progressive Rock Rock

Shed A Light: A Chat With Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief

January 22, 2020January 23, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 2019, Bruce Soord, Dissolution, Gavin Harrison, Hold Our Fire, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Widsom of Crowds, Yes

One of the hottest guitarists and songwriters in modern UK art rock sits down with the Rock & Roll Globe ahead of their upcoming show this Saturday in the Netherlands