by Blake | Mar 22, 2017 | Prog Report
A new festival, Progstock, was recently announced in the Northeast state of NJ and is set to take place from Oct 13-15, 2017. The lineup is a great one, especially for a brand new event and will include The Tangent, Karmakanic, Glass Hammer, Echolyn, Aisles, Randy McStine and many more over the course of the 3-day festival.
For more information visit: http://www.progstock.com/2017/
The complete lineup is:
Friday 10/13/2017
5:30pm-7:30pm – Rachel Flowers / Peter Jones / Francis Dunnery
7:30pm-9:00pm – break and meet & greet with Rachel, Peter, Francis
9:00pm-11:00pm – Glass Hammer 25th Anniversary Show
11:00pm – meet & greet with Glass Hammer
12mid – ProgStock Late Night (at the Festival Hotel) featuring EchoTest
Saturday 10/14/2017
11:00am-12:00pm – The Tea Club
12:00pm-1:00pm – break and meet & greet with Tea Club
1:00pm-2:15pm – Resistor
2:15pm-3:30pm – break and meet & greet with Resistor
3:30pm-4:45pm – Circuline
4:45pm-6:00pm – break and meet & greet with Circuline
6:00pm-7:30pm – Aisles
7:30pm-9:00pm – break and meet & greet with Aisles
9:00pm-11:00pm – Echolyn
11:00pm – meet & greet with Echolyn
12mid – ProgStock Late Night (at the Festival Hotel) featuring House of Prog’s Progressive Coffeehouse (with Jason Rubenstein, Rani Chatoorgoon, and Simon Godfrey)
Sunday 10/15/2017
11:00am-12:00pm – Cell15
12:00pm-1:00pm – break and meet & greet with Cell15
1:00pm-2:15pm – 3RDegree
2:15pm-3:30pm – break and meet & greet with 3RDegree
3:30pm-5:00pm – Randy McStine Presents a Kevin Gilbert Retrospective featuring Nick D’Virgilio, Don Carr and Lloyd Landesman
5:00pm-6:30pm – break and meet & greet with KG Retrospective artists
6:30pm-8:00pm – Karmakanic
8:00pm-8:30pm – brief break for equipment changeover
8:30pm-10:00pm – The Tangent
10:00pm – meet & greet with Karmakanic / The Tangent
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by Blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Prog Report
Legendary progressive metal act Fates Warning celebrated the 30th anniversary of their third album, Awaken the Guardian, in 2016. To celebrate this milestone, Jim Matheos (guitar) reassembled the Awaken the Guardian-era lineup for two special festival appearances last year: Keep it True XIX and Prog Power USA XVII. Fortunately for fans that were not able to attend, each show was filmed and recorded in its entirety for the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray out April 28th via Metal Blade Records, Awaken the Guardian Live!
Directed and edited by Oliver “Bomber” Barth, the Keep It True XIX footage was recorded on April 30th, 2016 in Lauda-Konigshofen, Germany; the Prog Power USA footage was recorded on September 9th, 2016 in Atlanta, GA with sound recording and video editing by Kent Smith, plus audio and video recording services provided by Lucid Lounge Studios – Atlanta. Mixed and mastered by Bill Metoyer at SkullSeven Studio in North Hollywood, CA, Awaken the Guardian Live also features art direction, design, and artwork by Ioannis (dangerousage.com), making this a must-have piece for any fan’s collection. Awaken the Guardian vocalist John Arch comments about the experience: “It was truly a surreal experience being able to share the spirit of ‘Awaken The Guardian’ at these shows. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the fans that have given back so much over the 30 year span since the album’s release. To all our family and friends, much gratitude.”
For more info visit: metalblade.com/fateswarning – where Awaken the Guardian Live can also be pre-ordered in the following formats:
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by Blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Prog Report
The new album from Mastadon – Emperor of Sand is due out on March 31st. Now comes the hilarious new video for the straight forward rocker “Show Yourself” which shows death in a spoof of Glengarry Glen Ross as he has to try and kill the band. Check it out here.
The band hit North America with the Eagles of Death Metal in April and then head to Europe in June.
For dates visit: http://www.mastodonrocks.com/tour
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by Blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Prog Report
Anathema are set to visit Latin America for a series of shows this summer in August. The band are scheduled for shows in Mexica, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.
Dates & ticket links:
Aug-03 Café Iguana, Monterrey, Mexico http://bit.ly/2nIjRnF
Aug-04 C3 Stage, Guadalajara, Mexico http://bit.ly/2nIjRnF
Aug-05 El Plaza Condesa, Mexico City http://bit.ly/2nHW1s0
Aug-07 Teatro Ecci, Bogota, Colombia – *Tickets via local music stores*
Aug-09 Teatro Capriola, Santiago, Chile http://bit.ly/2nIh9yp
Aug-11 Groove, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://bit.ly/2nI1mzU
Aug-12 Carioca Club, Sao Paulo, Brazil http://bit.ly/2nIi2Hj
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by Blake | Mar 17, 2017 | Prog Report
John Mitchell is back with Lonely Robot, his own musical project now getting ready to release the much-anticipated second studio album ‘The Big Dream’ on April 28th, 2017. Now you can check out the stellar new track ‘Everglow’ here:
John Mitchell had this to say: “Everglow is the first track I wrote for The Big Dream, it encapsulates the still present feeling that despite being surrounded en masse, we are a synthesised society barely truthfully communicating with each other on a less than superficial, soap box sermon level. Everglow is the hopeful ray of light when the phones go away and the eyes finally make contact. Coming from me, that’s almost ironic!”
Following 2015’s acclaimed debut ‘Please Come Home’, ‘The Big Dream’ has a core theme running through it – one that sees The Astronaut, the central character in the Lonely Robot adventure, emerging from a long period in stasis.
Mitchell explains: “The Astronaut wakes up from a cryogenic sleep but finds he’s no longer in space, and is instead in a woodland area surrounded by a group of strange people with animal heads! It’s a little surreal, a little ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to some extent. This is something of a solipsistic haze, for want of a better description!”
Mitchell explains more about his Lonely Robot concept: “I have always envisaged the storyline of The Astronaut’s journey evolving over the course of three albums. And I always knew where I wanted to go with the second album – taking The Astronaut away from space and into a strange and unfamiliar environment. Right now, I have no thoughts of what will happen for the third one but I’d better start thinking about it now!”
“The key inspiration for Lonely Robot comes from my love of science fiction films, and the atmospheric soundtracks that often accompany them – such as Alan Silvestri’s compositions for ‘Contact’ and Clint Mansell’s work for ‘Moon’.”
The album once again features drums by Craig Blundell (Steven Wilson), with all other instrumentation on the album delivered by Mitchell himself.
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