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- the gateway to Progressive Rock Music on the Internet |
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Links to the best resources for Progressive
Rock. The ratings are based on content, relevance, utility value, and
the audio quality. Regularly checked for irregularity. Updated -
2013-11-14
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Prog Archives: This
is a necessary tool, with links to progressive rock bands, progressive
rock cd reviews, a really good forum, and a comprehensive discography
section with free MP3 downloads. Novices to Progressive Music could
start with "What is Progressive Rock?" |
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DPRP - Dutch Progressive Rock Page:
DPRP is an extensive Internet site dedicated to progressive rock,
progressive metal and closely related genres. DPRP has a very good Newspage, always with up-to-date information. Very good reviews and tons of information for you to dig into. |
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Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock: GEPR is designed
as a reference for you to discover bands that are unfamiliar to you and
to broaden your listening horizons. The GEPR is arranged alphabetically
by band or artist, and has an excellent Genre Guide. |
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Vintageprog:
Excellent website, all about good reviews of those favourite Vintage
Progressive Rock Records, now with new good layout. Always with
extensive and very well thought out reviews. |
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Progressive Ears:
Excellent web site, with good reviews, large discussion board, news, tourdates, and a large amount of information. Recommended! |
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Progressive
Rock & Progressive Metal: Focusing on Progressive Rock,
Progressive Metal or Hard Rock Group, with very good reviews and links to
a large number of web sites. |
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Ground
and Sky: A music review resource featuring "the honest
opinions of 14 knowledgeable music fans". Ground and Sky is a resource
for fans of progressive rock and the more diverse forms of experimental
music. |
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ProGGnosis:
Dedicated to Progressive Rock and Fusion. ProGGnosis have over 3300 reviews
and detailed and interactive genre/sub-genre/style guides. |
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Ghostland:
Very good web site, with good newspage, reviews, tourdates, interviews,
audio samples, and other useful information. |
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ProgressoR: The site has a very good rating system for albums, an excellent genre guide, and many good reviews. |
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Gnosis:
The Gnosis Project is basically a large repository of music data catering
to the discerning, experimental/avant/progressive listener. The site generally
consists of ratings and reviews. |
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Ytsejam:
Good reviews, interviews, news and a discussion forum. |
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Progressive
Newsletter: The web site of a German magazine, with the most
comprehensive links page available. Reviews in german only, but the site
includes an archive with interviews which are mostly available in their
original english versions. |
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The
Progressive Pages: The Progressive Pages is a no-frills way
to share a love of prog/power music while cataloguing the CDs of Matt Rink,
and writing some quick album reviews. Focus on progressive rock/metal. |
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ItalianProg:
The idea behind ItalianProg is to give music collectors from all
over the world a source of information on the italian progressive music
of the 70's, written by fans and collectors themselves. |
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Sea
of Tranquility: SoT is a web site for information, news, and
reviews related to the worlds of progressive rock, various forms of metal,
and fusion music. |
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BayProg:
BayProg is a web site of resources for San Francisco Bay Area progressive
rock musicians and fans.
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Spanish Progressive Rock Page: This is a space devoted to progressive
music in general, but if focuses on spanish prog. Both the spanish classics
of the seventies and the latest releases are covered and reported here.
In English.
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Arlequins:
Italian Prog-websine. Very good links page with links to many Italian
Prog-bands. Unfortunately, all the reviews are in Italian only. |
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Agartha: With good news section, interviews, reviews, and other
good stuff to dig into, but mostly in Italian. |
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Progrock.no:
Norwegian site with a very comprehensive discography of Norwegian
Progressive Music. The webshop also keep a good supply of Progressive
Music from Norway, past and present. |
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Babyblaue
Prog-Reviews: Very good German website. Good reviews, but only
availible in German only. |
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AmarokProg:
French progressive rock website focusing on Progressive Rock,
Alternative Rock, Progressive Metal, Prog Rock, Jazz, Krautrock, Fusion.
With reviews and discography, in French only.
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New
Horizons: Focusing on Progressive, Classic and Melodic Rock.
They will endevour to create a site worthy of frequent visitation and aim
to give you a broad overview of what has been happening for some of the
premier bands with up-to-date news on their future plans. Good newspage,
good reviews, and very pleasant gig-review section. |
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progVisions.net:
A progressive rock e-zine, published by Douwe Fledderus, with news,
links, and reviews (with a nice MP3-player to accompany the reviews). |
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Prog
Rock Videos: A
Progressive Rock Music
Videos and Lyrics site. Their aim is to present a selection of
the best videos of good old progrock bands.
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Progressive Rock Webring: The Progressive Rock Ring features
links to artists whose music is similar in scope to Genesis, Pink Floyd,
Yes, Rush, Marillion, etc.
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Axiom of Choice: The website
is maintained by Jurriaan Hage, and is a source of subjective
information about progressive rock music and related genre's. The Axiom
Of Choice has good information, links, and and some short audio samples
of new Artists. |
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Progplanet: The famous Progplanet site with prog reviews on both cd, dvd and books. Also there are artwork, recommended band/artists, related sites and lots more. |
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Prognaut: ProgNaut.com started in 1998 as a personal website showing the favorite progressive rock bands of Mr. Ron. |
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BajaProg:
The website of the Baja Prog festival, a series of progressive rock concerts
that take place during 4 consecutive days, where 20 bands and fans from
all over the world get together to exchange ideas and build relationships. |
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ProgAwards: The
Prog Awards is a festival dedicated to Prog Rock Music, born to give fame
to the Prog World. This years edition is the first and the festival is
open for all Bands and Artists. The best band will win the prize “Prog
Awards 2007”.
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Prog4you.com: A website with reviews, interviews, news, tourdates, and MP3's. |
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Tarkus
Webzine: The website of the a Norwegian language webzine for the progressive rock community in Norway. |
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Acid
Dragon
Magazine: The website of a French magazine dedicated to
progressive rock since 1988. With a publication rate of three issues per
year, it is a precious collection of biographies, stories,
studies, documents and interviews. Acid Dragon is the only European prog
'zine written
in English. |
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e-Prog:
e-Prog is devoted to Progressive Rock that highlights keyboards such as
synthesizers, piano, Moog, Mellotron, Hammond and others. |
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New
England Art Rock Society: New EARS is a community dedicated
to sharing and promoting progressive rock in the New England area. |
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Hairless Heart Herald: THHH aim to provide news, reviews
and gig information on that oft derided music genre, Progressive Rock,
Prog Rock, Art Rock, Jazz Rock or whatever. |
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Mitkadem: Israeli site, by Uri Breitman. Some pages in english too. |
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Strawberry
Bricks: Strawberry Bricks is a timeline documenting "twenty-five
years of progressive art rock" and the works that are rooted in this
classic period. |
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Department
of Virtuosity: DoV write about traditional kinds of hard'n'heavy
music plus such genres as: progressive rock/metal, symphonic, neoclassical
hard rock/metal, shredding, AOR, blues-rock, jazz/fusion, avantgarde,
rock & metal operas and classical guitar-oriented music. |
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ProgSnobs: ProgSnobs is a progressive music review and commentary blog. The idea is to not generate hype or inflate any egos. The idea is to respond and interpret new progressive rock and progressive metal releases using contextual analysis. |
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Through Different Eyes: Online archive of Progressive music
reviews, with links and interviews. |
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Progressive
World: Progressive World's goal is to create the most
comprehensive and user friendly website for progressive music fans.
They will strive to inform the prog listener, about all new releases,
concert and tour information, interviews, reviews and allow you opportunity
to communicate your likes and dislikes in a forum. |
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Zoltan's Progressive Rock Webpage: Zoltan's
is dedicated to classic, and new, progressive rock bands from around
the world. You will find casual reviews, album covers, and RealAudio
samples from many albums. |
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Progression: This is the website of a full-size quarterly magazine devoted
to news, reviews, interviews and features covering a wide range of progressive/electronic/avant-garde
music artists from around the globe. |
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Mellotron:
The homepage of the famous Mellotron. |
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Prog-résiste:
Prog-résiste is a belgian "Non Profit Making Association"
having the aim to promote the Progressive Rock in Belgium, in other french-speaking
countries and all around the world if possible. |
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USA
Progressive Music: Founded by progressive music enthusiast
Jill Hughes in March 2007, the site's goal is to provide up-to-date content
to help promote progressive type music |
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Progscape.com:
The website of Michael Ostrich. With some reviews and interviews.
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Melo's Prog Bazaar: Progressive Rock Forum
"covering all dimentions of Progressviev Rock". Community with links, reviews and other stuff. |
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Progboard: New site with band index and some reviews. |
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InsideOut
Music: One of Europe's top independent labels. |
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Proggies: Swiss
site. |
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Artrock: Swedish site. |
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Jilaen Sherwood: This site contains fantasy and science fiction paintings, illustrations and 3D visual art & graphics. |
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Rock 'n' Prog: Swedish
site. |
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Unprogged.com: Italian site. |
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Progressivo Brasil: Brazilian site. |
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Epigram
Encyclopedia of Experimental and Progressive Metal: Greek site. |
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Progressia:
French site. |
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Prog-PT:
Portugese site. |
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Oz
Music Project: Australian site. |
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Pilgrim
World: Japanese site. |
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Progwereld:
Dutch site.. |
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