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"Simply some of the most sophisticated and beautiful progressive rock music ever created!" Steven Wilson announces Gentle Giant, Storm Corrosion and Hawkwind additions to his Headphone Dust platform

Steven Wilson's 2012 live album Catalogue / Preserve / Amass is available digitally for the very first time, and his own The Future Bites is also given a new digital makeover

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The story of Genesis and A Trick Of The Tail is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Hawkwind, Clannad, Devin Townsend, Ed O'Brien, Bruce Soord, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Crown Lands, Midge Ure, Yes and loads more...

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"I was pissed off. This disrespects the band." Dave Brock slams BBC suggestion that Hawkwind were anti-Beatles and stole Paul McCartney's long-lost bass

Paul McCartney: The Hunt For The Lost Bass tells the story of the former Beatle's long-lost Höfner violin bass

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“She said, ‘Do you know anybody who plays keyboards?’ I lied and said, ‘Yeah – me!’” Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind. He just never stopped turning up

The guitarist has been a fixture in Dave Brock’s band for nearly a decade, but his history with the space rockers goes much further back. Now he’s released his debut solo album too

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New Hawkwind release unearths the late Huw Lloyd-Langton's final recording with the band

Hawkwind's Psychedelic Selection is released through Cherry Red Records in June

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McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass review – amiable tale of how Macca’s Höfner was finally found

Dogged detective work tracked down the instrument that had vanished more than 50 years ago, but the true story behind its theft injects a note of sadness

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“My comfort zone is big volume and lots of blues”: Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell has died aged 64

The metal pioneers’ longest-serving guitar player has passed away after a major operation

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"He wanted my shotgun – he'd just have these total freakouts. There were so many wonderful moments and terrible mayhem with him." Fuelled by bipolar disorder, the 70s' most outlandish concept album predicted a political meltdown

In the time before punk, there was only one place to go for anarchic, pile-driving hypno-rock

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From Dylan to disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: the 30 best live albums ever – ranked!

Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the bestselling live albums of all time, is turning 50. You won’t find that on this list, however: instead there’s metal, soul, and an ‘indecently exciting’ No 1 …

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“Lemmy was very forceful and pushy because he took a lot of speed. He got the job because he elbowed everybody else out the way!” How Hawkwind made Silver Machine, and gained the respect of Dave Brock’s bank manager

It was only their second-ever single, but it made a massive impact – and Brock still doesn’t really know how it happened

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"Yelling, fighting, drugs, alcohol… everything always went on. At the very end, he took me to his house and gave me a sword." Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, by those who knew him best

On what would've been his 80th birthday, we remember rock'n'roll icon and Motorhead legend Lemmy Kilmister

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“I’d said, ‘All that weird stuff is crap!’ When I came back I said, ‘Can you play me all that weird crap I was rude about?’” Alien Sex Fiend’s mushroom-powered path to prog appreciation

Nik Fiend’s journey from a cover of Silver Machine that Lemmy liked to sharing a label with Hawkwind

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"Do you know how much fun it is to scream, 'I'm never gonna work another day in my life' really loud? It feels good!" How Monster Magnet came up with metal’s greatest f**k-you anthem

Monster Magnet mainman Dave Wyndorf holed up near Las Vegas with guitars, speakers, a drum machine and a four-track recorder

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“Released at a time when many fans didn’t know the band still existed, it contains some of Robert Calvert’s finest material”: Hawkwind’s PXR5 plugs into the more celebrated Hall Of The Mountain Grill

Their last album with the wayward genius – showing the band at their most confrontational yet most accessible – returns in remastered vinyl and CD with additional tracks

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"We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days

Lucas Fox looked after Lemmy when he was fired by Hawkwind - they bonded over Monty Python, speed and Special Brew

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"That song had a primal power, like it was about to come off the rails": The story of the speed-freak anthem that was the most important song Lemmy ever wrote

A song written by the young Lemmy for Hawkwind has been through various twists - from Motörhead's own anthemic version to the unlikeliest remakes

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“Some of the police were dealing dope! They’re knocking at the door and we stop rolling joints, but the promoter says, ‘They have marijuana for us!’” When America fell in love with an eccentric British prog band

A change of line-up, a change of style and Timothy Leary’s plans for a concert suspended in the air helped made their 1974 album a classic

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Two years into the post-space age, Hawkwind continue to explore music's deeper reaches on Hall Of The Mountain Grill

What's that? A nine-disc reissue of Hawkwind's classic 1974 album, with live sets and Blu-ray? Step right this way!

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“Lemmy couldn’t compute the concept of ‘subtle.’ It adds to a multifaceted, if superficially flawed, gem”: Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill returns in 9-disc edition

Box set contains studio and live bonuses along with fresh remaster of the 1974 album

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The silencing of The Lamb... Genesis are on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Plus Roy Harper, Hawkwind, Jeff Wayne, Jakko Jakszyk, Green Carnation, Ihlo, Discipline, Chimpan A, Kindred Spirit and loads more...

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“We weren’t looking for peaceful – we were looking for horrid. We gave people fits. Locked the doors and pointed strobes at the crowd, wocka-wocka-wocka”: From falling together to falling apart, Hawkwind’s early era was no hippie dream

Lemmy, Nik Turner and Dave Brock lived through a time of division through choice of drugs, mental health issues and artistic intentions, which still left a remarkable impact on the world of ‘out-there’ music

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Mud, mayhem and four-hour Grateful Dead sets: The chaotic story of Weeley and Bickershaw, the early 70s festivals that time forgot

Not every festival could be Woodstock or the Isle Of Wight

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"Everyone who’s been in Hawkwind is a Hawklord." The current line-up of Hawklords state their case with Time...

Now officially in their third decade, the Hawklords collective continue their purple patch with latest album Time.

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We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now

The brand new issue of Prog is on sale now, and also featuring Richard Sinclair, Gentle Giant, Peter Baumann, Katatonia

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“Obviously there’s some songs you get bored with. We go off on tangents, then come back into the old vocal refrain. That’s the way out”: What’s left for The Mighty Hawkwind to achieve? They have a few ideas

56 years and 37 studio albums in, Dave Brock’s band remain determined to push boundaries, harnessing new tech and new ideas while staying true to their focus on powerpacked live performances

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