NEW MUSIC // PAVLOV’S BELL INVESTIGATE THEIR NIGHTMARES AND EMERGE WITH THE ALBUM OF YOUR DREAMS
“One night, Antonio had this nightmare where he woke up in a cold sweat feeling that the album...
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FOCUS // THE MUSICAL EVOLUTION OF T.R.A.M. AND THE MARS VOLTA’S ADRIÁN TERRAZAS GONZÁLEZ
Just over a month ago, followers of our Instagram page were able to tune into our try. Adrián:...
FOCUS // NOTES ON THE UNIVERSAL GUITAR LANGUAGE OF ZETA’S DANIEL HERNANDEZ SAUD
(Editor’s Note: In lieu of a more traditional intro, I wanted to try something a little different here....
EXCLUSIVE // GAZELLE(S) KEEP FANS GUESSING, ACTIVATE STAR POWER ON NEW ALBUM
In 2017, Gazelle(s) released There’s No One New Around You, an emotionally complex debut that cleverly transported audiences...
NEW MUSIC // Get your juice on with TANG
TANG, Central Oregon’s newest math-heavy export, find themselves aptly named on their newest EP, Tiny Daniel. The importance...
EXLUSIVE // Sowing Seeds of Prog with Catbamboo
When your math-prog band is finally asked to play a festival in another country, generally speaking, you’d best...
EXCLUSIVE // Get Weird With Alarmist In Their Studio Session of ‘Lactic Tang’
Dublin City's benevolent jazz/math wizards Alarmist, alongside NY production artist Afghaniscan, have put together a video for "Lactic Tang," one of the band's more 70's fusion inspired tracks off their debut Sequesterer, released earlier this year.
VIDEO // Behold the off-kilter riff fest in Øgïvęš Big Band’s new single ‘Tethra’
Øgïvęš Big Band is not just an exercise in exotic symbology, it is a supergroup in the Bristol underground prog and math scene. Comprising the troupe are guitarist Ben Harris (Øgïvęš, ANTA, Rainbow Slicer), bassist Ben Holyoake (Lambhorn), and drummer Oli Cocup (Lambhorn, My Octopus Mind). Sharing a passion for musical experimentation and the avant garde, the trio set out to warp all your favourite heavy rock tropes and throw your expectations back in your face.
EXCLUSIVE // Listen to some of the face-melting cuts off Body Hound’s instrumental masterpiece ‘No Moon’
In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5, Billy Pilgrim is a war veteran with a peculiar predicament: he's got himself 'unstuck in time'. WHAT. 'All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist'...
EXCLUSIVE // Hear Luo’s explosive first single as a two-piece
Much like – let’s say – duck à l’orange, the constituents of Luo’s sound, on paper, haven’t, at first glance, ever appeared too likely to mingle well. Thick, hazy electronica and tumbling, wonky prog leanings; a bird and a citrus fruit? Neither part feels instantly plausible to mesh without prompting some discord however, as contemporaries such as Three Trapped Tigers and Poisonous Birds consistently prove (as regards the music, not the cuisine), the two can make for comfy bedfellows.
