Welcome to Progtober. This month, you can catch several prog acts on tour, from Yes playing Fragile in its entirety to Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, who is on the road celebrating 50 years of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Then there’s the Musical Box, a Seventies-era Genesis tribute band …
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Yes are hitting the road this fall for a tour where they will perform the entirety of Fragile, the prog-rock band’s 1971 classic that was reissued as a Super Deluxe Edition box set last year. The run is part of the band’s ongoing Album Series. The Rock and Roll Hall …
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Together with Floyd’sDark Side of the Moonand Genesis’Foxtrot, Yes‘ 1972 masterpieceClose to the Edgeis probably the most fully realized album in progressive rock. It captures the band during an incredible (if fleeting) creative peak, and perfectly sums up the prog ethos; its lofty ideals and natural attraction towards the whimsical …
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To many progressive rock fans, Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson represent the holy trinity of the genre. And the only person freakishly talented enough to log time in all three of them is drummer Bill Bruford, who pulled off the feat between 1972 and 1976. “I’m also the guy who …
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This year’s Black Friday Record Store Day had its usual share of curios: a version of Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft with her vocals isolated, Rage Against the Machine’s 2000 set at the Democratic National Convention, a collection of outtakes from Yes’ Fragile, a previously unreleased 1991 Van …
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Jon Davison, the lead singer of the legendary progressive-rock band Yes since 2012, is firing back at a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed last week over the group’s 2021 single “Dare to Know.” In a lengthy statement posted on the band’s website today, Davison says the new legal claim from fellow prog-rock …
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A new lawsuit alleges members of the legendary progressive rock band Yes used a composition stolen from fellow prog-rock musician Riz Story as the basis for “Dare to Know,” the second single off Yes’ 2021 album The Quest. The copyright infringement complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles and obtained by …
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“Too twiddly didn’t really exist to us, in our minds,” guitar legend Steve Howe of Yes says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, explaining the musical mission of his band — and of prog-rock itself. “There wasn’t really such a thing. If you could play it, then …
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