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Euphoria Station: Southern Rock Spirit With a Progressive Rock Pulse

Euphoria Station – Smoking Gun (Self-Released, 2025) On Smoking Gun, their third full-length release, Los Angeles-based band Euphoria Station pays tribute to Southern rock legends…

The album cover for Songs for a Perigee Moon by Carl Weingarten features an ornate illustration of a guitar integrated into a crescent moon, with a sun bearing a human face nestled inside the curve. Surrounding the central image are floral patterns, tree branches, distant mountains, and a starry sky, combining natural and celestial imagery in warm gold, amber, and earth tones against a black background.

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A Supermoon and Supergroup: Carl Weingarten Slides Into Orbit

Angel Romero July 6, 2025 No Comments ambient Americana Carl Weingarten contemporary jazz fusion jazz

Carl Weingarten – Songs for a Perigee Moon (Multiphase, 2025) Carl Weingarten’s Songs for a Perigee Moon is thematically inspired by the “perigee moon” (supermoon).…

Zoe Pia and Tenores di Orosei – Indindara cover artwork. A photo of the artists.

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Zoe Pia and Tenores di Orosei Venture Into Phonosymbolism

Charlie Melville July 6, 2025 No Comments avant-garde experimental Sardinian music Tenores di Orosei Zoe Pia

Zoe Pia and Tenores di Orosei – Indindara (Losen Records, 2025) Clarinetist and experimental launeddas player Zoe Pia joins forces with the renowned vocal quartet…

The album cover for Komara – Komara II features a disturbing, humanoid figure rendered in a visceral, sinewy style, with exaggerated teeth and a partially melted or deformed head. The background is a textured, fiery orange and red. The band’s name “Komara” appears in a stylized, stacked font to the left, with “II” subtly framed in a box between the letters.

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Komara Refuses to Settle into Predictability

Angel Romero July 1, 2025 No Comments Komara Progressive rock

Komara – Komara II (7D Media, 2025) After a decade-long silence, the boundary-pushing trio Komara resurfaces with Komara II, an audacious return. The trio features…

The album cover for True Stories... and Other Lies by PrYzme features a desert landscape with large, inverted stone pyramids hovering in the sky and disintegrating into fragments. The scene is reflected in a glassy surface below, with clouds and orange lighting. The band name appears in the top left, stylized with a red geometric symbol.

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PrYzme – “True Stories and Other Lies”

Professor Mark June 28, 2025 No Comments Benoît Toquet David Chollet Dominique Blanchard French Progressive Rock Lucas Planque Progressive rock PrYzme – "True Stories and Other Lies"Rennes

Four years after their critically acclaimed album, Four Inches, the French progressive rock band PrYzme is ready, with the release of its second album, True…

The cover of The Samurai of Prog – Omnibus-4: The Bernard & Pörsti Sessions features a fantastical, steampunk-inspired scene. At its center, two bearded adventurers in wide-brimmed hats (Bernard & Pörsti) sit on a rocky outcrop, gazing toward a dreamy, castle-filled sky where a UFO floats ominously. Surrounding them are symbolic items, a sword, compass, telescope, and scroll, set atop a wooden table. A cosmic sky bursts in the background. Artwork by Ed Unitsky.

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Omnibus-4: Three Prog-rock Gems in a Box

Angel Romero June 28, 2025 No Comments Bernard & Pörsti Kimmo Pörsti Marco Bernard Progressive rock symphonic rock The Samurai of Prog

The Samurai Of Prog – Omnibus-4 (Seacrest, 2025) The Samurai Of Prog’s Omnibus series are boxed sets that contain previously released concept albums with the…

The album cover for Relations – The Foundation features a man and a woman holding hands as they walk down a railroad track. The image is split into red tones on the left and blue tones on the right. Abstract light patterns and energy-like textures overlay the scene. The title is set in clean white text at the top left.

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The Foundation – “Relations”

Professor Mark June 26, 2025 No Comments Gijs Koopman Jan Grijpstra Jens van der Valk Judith van der Valk Mark Smit Masaki "Makkie" Shimakawa Netherlands Progressive rock Rinie Huigen Ron Lammers The Foundation - "Relations"Xymphonia Records

The Foundation was founded by keyboardist, Ron Lammers. This Dutch band is releasing their new album “Relations” on June 30th, on Xymphonia Records. The band’s…

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Renaissance Reframed: Boxed Set Opens Out on a Key Era

Aiden Robinson June 25, 2025 No Comments classic rock Progressive rock Renaissance soft rock symphonic rock

Renaissance – Opening Out – The Albums 1977–1979 (Esoteric Records/Cherry Red, 2025) This 3CD clamshell box set collects Renaissance’s Warner Bros.-era studio albums from 1977…

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Reuter Trio Finds Harmony in Spontaneity

Angel Romero June 23, 2025 No Comments Asaf Sirkis Fabio Trentini Markus Reuter Progressive rock

Markus Reuter (featuring Fabio Trentini and Asaf Sirkis) – Truce <3 (Unsung Records in collaboration with MoonJune Music, 2025) On their third outing as a…

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Mission Jupiter – “Aftermath”

Professor Mark June 23, 2025 No Comments "Aftermath"ambient Belarus Dmitri Soldatenko electronic music Eugene Zuyeu Kate Varsak Label 51 Recordings Minsk Mission Jupiter Progressive rock symphonic rock Vladimir Shvakel

…And so…our travels take us back to the nation of Belarus. A nation that has already delivered a champion. A metal band for the first…