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Stefano Panunzi - Caravaggio cover artwork. A painting of a large black angel's wing above dark clouds.

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Stefano Panunzi Crafts a Monumental Double Set Dedicated to Caravaggio

Stefano Panunzi – Caravaggio (SP Music, 2026) Italian composer and songwriter Stefano Panunzi’s new album is a magnificent double set inspired by the life and…

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Clearlight – Symphonies An Essential Return To French Progressive Rock Brilliance

Angel Romero April 4, 2026 No Comments art rock Cherry Red Records Clearlight Clearlight Symphony Cyrille Verdeaux David Cross Didier Lockwood Didier Malherbe experimental rock Forever Blowing Bubbles French Progressive Rock fusion Gong Impressionist Symphony jazz-rock King Crimson Les Contes du Singe Fou Magma new age Progressive rock psychedelic rock space rock Steve Hillage symphonic rock Symphonies – The Collected Recordings Tim Blake Virgin Records Visions

Clearlight – Symphonies: The Collected Recordings (Esoteric/Cherry Red, 2026) Symphonies: The Collected Recordings gathers essential Clearlight albums into one newly remastered clamshell box. Cherry Red’s…

The album cover for Terminus by Cryptic Cadet features a design dominated by a fiery orange gradient that fades into dark brown. A blurred, glowing yellow circle near the center . The band's name appears in sharp black text in the top left, while the title Terminus is boldly placed in bright orange at the bottom right.

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Cryptic Cadet Unveils Terminus

Prog News June 29, 2025 No Comments art rock Cryptic Cadet Progressive rock

Terminus is the debut full-length album from Cryptic Cadet, an art-rock trio featuring d. mark owen (Cirque du Soleil), drummer Cam Tyler (Cirque du Soleil),…

Laughing Stock - Shelter cover artwork. Two hands coming out of the earth holding tree branches with leaves.

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Laughing Stock Explores Utopian Escape in ‘Shelter’

Margarita Gabaldon June 7, 2024 No Comments Anders Buaas art rock hard rock Laughing Stock Progressive rock Tim Bowness

Laughing Stock – Shelter (Apollon Records, 2024) Norwegian rock band Laughing Stock is back with their sixth album, Shelter, and it’s an intriguing exploration of…

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Babal – Who Will I Be When I Leave?

Professor Mark September 8, 2022 1 Comment art rock Babal UK cinematic Eclectic Frank Zappa Progressive rock

Babal, the English band, return this year with a new album, Who Will I Be When I Leave?; which will be released on Melodic Revolution…

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – Confidence Trick

Professor Mark May 1, 2022 6 Comments art rock Confidence Trick contemporary classical electronic music Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate minimalism Progressive rock

Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate won my favorite album of 2020 award, with Nostalgia for Infinity. Now they return with an album that may be…

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Tim Bowness with his Favorite Singers and Musicians

Angel Romero April 24, 2019 No Comments art rock featured Progressive rock Tim Bowness

Tim Bowness – Flowers at the Scene (InsideOutMusic, 2019) Flowers at the Scene is the exquisitely produced and arranged fifth solo album by British artist…

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Groundbreaking Band Dead Can Dance Releases Dionysus

Angel Romero November 2, 2018 No Comments art rock Dead Can Dance featured world music

Dead Can Dance, an acclaimed genre-defying duo has a new album titled Dionysus. The recording is the duo’s first album in six years and consists…

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The Art Rock of Laura Meade

Angel Romero July 5, 2018 No Comments art rock featured Laura Meade

Laura Meade – Remedium (Doone Records, 2018) Remedium is the first solo album by singer-songwriter Laura Meade, the IZZ vocalist. While IZZ plays progressive rock,…