Progressive Rock

Progressive rock (often shortened to “progressive”, “prog rock” or “prog”, also sometimes called, although not synonymous with, “art rock”) is a form of rock music that evolved in the late-1960s and early 1970s as part of a “mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility.” Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Gentle Giant

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Nov 23 Monday 23 November 2009 Today
Julian Plenti I'm In You	Paradise Rock Club Boston MA, United States 42.351676 -71.119647	11 people attending 1 shout Buy Tickets
The Big Pink Crystal Antlers	Larimer Lounge Denver, Colorado, Denver, United States 39.759892 -104.98385	5 people attending 1 shout
Nov 24 Tuesday 24 November 2009 Tomorrow
Puscifer	McFarlin Memorial… Dallas(, TX), United States 32.78333 -96.8	4 people attending 2 shouts
Julian Plenti I'm In You	Bowery Ballroom New York NY, United States 40.720274 -73.993456	20 people attending 1 shout
Nov 25 Wednesday 25 November 2009
Puscifer	McFarlin Memorial… Dallas(, TX), United States 32.78333 -96.8	4 people attending Add shout
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Winter Tour 2009 at Greensboro Coliseum Trans-Siberian Orchestra	Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro NC, United States 36.059315 -79.825316	Add shout Buy Tickets

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GearEighth wrote:
Thursday evening

The Mars Volta are the greatest band of oll time in my opinion.

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xSamuelOnlinex wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Greetings! We a rock group from Belarus - "Zdrada". We give to your attention our first demo which can be downloaded on http://letitbit.net/download/5387.a53be11096d237d19a178dd64/Zdrada___2_demo.rar.html In advance thanks for listening)

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roy_walker wrote:
Tuesday morning

Pink Floyd > our lives.

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mynameishuman wrote:
Monday evening

Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Yes.

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jizzy_jams wrote:
11 days ago

Progressive rock is awesome. Glad to see Pink Floyd in its rightful spot.

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Alby_ wrote:
20 days ago

someone was watchin' venture bros last night :P

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Screaminguy wrote:
20 days ago

OMG IM IN A FLOYD HOLE!

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theHusky wrote:
last month

The new hippie genre.

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mbausd wrote:
last month

watch out for gazpacho!

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gogitosbanditos wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/group/Pink+Floyd+is+not+prog!+It+is+primitive! u r welcome :)

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mephistoledger wrote:
last month

Pink Floyd - Camel - The Alan Parsons Project - Porcupine Tree <3

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dAJaro wrote:
last month

In your Library (248 uses) - just 2 more...

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Northernwaste wrote:
last month

Coheed and Cambria is higher than Gentle Giant. What the fuck.

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fatalfluu wrote:
last month

PINK FLOYDDDD

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dosomethingnow wrote:
last month

there are other bands of Progressive great too. But the most of they are youngth. For example there is a band call: ''Protest The Hero'', they are awesome ;)

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mynameishuman wrote:
last month

Porcupine Tree is way too high in the charts... ._. They're not THAT good...

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dAJaro wrote:
last month

well.. it's a good start that both prog and alt rock are not 100% defined. how many instrumental parts make a song prog? or is this not only about instrumental parts? there is non-prog rock that has instrumental parts every now and then that would make you think of prog but they are commonly seen as not-prog (by proggers). i think everyone knows examples here (kula shaker mix poprock with indian influences, noir desir have a 20 minute song, the beatles added a musique-concrete piece to their white album). there is also the opposite, commonly-seen-as-prog-bands that have very little prog in their music but only the elitists scream about it. anyways, one could this striving for more complex music as a new sub-genre for prog (oh no, another one) progressive alt rock or as a german prog magazine calls them "modern art rock". keep also in mind that progressive rock is not really a genre by itself but rather an attitude towards creating music. you can use it in most music (- jazz classic).

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LakeGlade12 wrote:
last month

Has anyone noticed that all the bands we question on if they are prog or not are alternative rock bands? I think this genre has been getting steadily closer to prog rock over time. If you look at the biggest 'alt' rock bands most recent albums, you will find many of them have some form of prog in them. For example Coldplay are having a lot of instrumentals in the middle of their songs that take up a fair amount of the overall song time, Snow Patrol have a 16 minute song in their most recent album, Muse have a 3 part-11 minute song that many people compare with symphonic rock and we have debated Radiohead being prog or not for donkeys years. It could be that in the same way psychedelic rock evolved into prog rock, alt rock is starting to change into a new form of prog rock. I could be very wrong, but even so I want to be told why I am wrong. If I am right however, we could just maybe be seeing the rebirth of prog rock music in the popular music scene in the form of a alt/prog hybrid!

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AntikSeptik wrote:
last month

Pink Floyd are so Pink Floyd

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datoksir wrote:
last month

visit http://datoksir.blogspot.com

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