Progressive Art Rock: Music Deals

It's only been five years since prog-metal kingpins Tool last launched a studio salvo, but a few lifetimes of experience seem to have gone into its creation. 10,000 Days marks something of a maturation, and while it's not exactly the ...

Noisy art school dropouts, or at least that's what it sounds like upon first listen of Fly Pan Am's Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vécu. The line between noise and experimentation is often fine, and that's especially the case with ...

Here We Go Magic made waves in early 2009 with an eponymous debut that was the one-man home recording project of indie folker Luke Temple; a curious, sonically hazy album essentially divided between sketchy ambient noise instrumentals and simple, tuneful, ...

This is the true Take That comeback, the one where Robbie Williams returns to the fold for the first time since 1995. When he split at the height of Brit-pop, conventional wisdom suggested that Gary Barlow would wind up as ...

All too often, when the frontman of a highly recognizable band decides to decamp on a solo venture, the results have the air of a busman's holiday -- a disc that could just as easily have been proffered under the ...

Here is the type of sentence that some listeners -- specifically, the ones with short attention spans -- absolutely hate to hear about an album: this CD cannot be fully absorbed on the first listen, but it reveals more and ...