Progressive-Rock News

On Sept. 29 Rhino will release "Genesis Live 1973-2007," a 10-disc set featuring five of the group's six official live albums -- it will include a spot for last year's "Live Over Europe" album from the 2007 reunion tour -- along with a wealth of unreleased material.

Jeb Bush will be back in DC this week to present a Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored report on immigration policy that calls for a path to legalization for illegal immigrants - a position shared by his brother, former president George W. Bush.

Fans in Asia stayed up into the wee hours, bars across Europe held Michael Jackson theme nights and television stations from Sydney to Paris cleared their schedules Tuesday to broadcast the King of Pop's star-studded memorial service live from Los Angeles.

There will come a time, many many years from now, long after the dust has settled, when we look back at this point in music's vast history, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez will be left standing.

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Legendary British bands YES and Asia will showcase their progressive rock style with hits like I've Seen All Good People, Roundabout and Heat of the Moment during a benefit concert for the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame & Museum .

Another day and another sad celebrity death. Fred Travalena dies at 66; master impressionist and singer 'The Man of a Thousand Faces' could voice Bugs Bunny as well as Luciano Pavarotti.

Sun Airway is the groovacious new electro pop project from a couple of the guys from Philly's ultra-suede A-Sides , Jon Barthmus & Patrick Marsceill.

SOURCE: JamBase By: Dennis Cook Yes Two of England's finest art rock ensembles, Yes and Asia , begin a North American tour that will run through August.

Octahedron Review [2] Posted by Enrique on 06.25.2009 Guitarist/songwriter Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has said his band's fifth full-length is '[The Mars Volta's] acoustic album,' which is an apt description.

Indie piano-popper Regina Spektor increases her appeal, prog-rockers the Mars Volta continue not to care whom they please, and kinda-punk Brody Dalle brings us her new band's debut-Metromix has full reviews of this week's biggest releases , as well as quick takes on fresh LPs from the likes of the Gossip, Sunset Rubdown, Dead Prez & DJ Green ...

Grammy-winning prog-rock wizards The Mars Volta show a softer side but still rock hard on their fifth studio outing, Octahedron.

PAIN OF SALVATION, BEARDFISH Pull Out Of PROGRESSIVE NATION; BIGELF, SCALE THE SUMMIT Step In - June 22, 2009 DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has released the following statement: "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 [ ...

"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.

When guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala left At the Drive-In to form the Mars Volta, the duo burst out of the confines of post-punk into a kind of sprawling, Latin-infused prog that has been called everything from utterly brilliant to completely inscrutable.

Members of alternative rock band At The Drive-In have rejected reports that they are planning a comeback.

Quebec-based Sunset Rubdown is returning to Tucson, with fellow Canuck bands Elfin Saddle and Witchies in tow.

Two legendary British bands will be playing in Muskogee next month. Officials with the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and Museum say YES and Asia showcase their progressive rock style during a benefit concert for the Hall of Fame on July 16 at the Muskogee Civic Center.

Legendary funnyman Bill Cosby usually spends Father's Day emceeing the Playboy Jazz Festival, but it falls in early July this year, so Cosby is spending Father's Day with us in Tucson.

Fans of At the Drive-In may be in for a treat in the future, after singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala recently commented that a reunion may not be as farfetched as previously thought.