Our Editors
Mark Paytress Archive
The Electric Eels, Eyeball of …
Dense, nasty and gleefully electric — it has to be the Electric Eel… more »
Vic Godard And The Subway Sect…
"No more rock 'n 'roll for you!" That's Subway Sect… more »
Television Personalities, And …
At more than one remove from the main thrust of Rough Trade's guitar-… more »
Young Marble Giants, Live At T…
Just 18 months after their live debut, this shy, Cardiff-based trio ended… more »
Various Artists, Action Time …
Bank clerk turned punk rock evangelist, Mark Perry was a key figure in ro… more »
Cabaret Voltaire, Live At The …
An important aspect of post-punk was that many acts shunned the classic f… more »
The Slits, In The Beginning…
For a few months in 1978, the Slits had the future of rock within their g… more »
Art Bears, Hopes And Fears…
Post-punk? Pre-punk, more like. Art Bears sprang from the ashes of Henry … more »
Faust, The Faust Tapes…
The Krautrock bands were a peculiar progressive-era breed. While Britain… more »
TV On The Radio, Return To Coo…
It's all too rare that a record comes along and simply shatters all expec… more »
Essential Logic, Fanfare in th…
As the sax-playing part of the two-woman frontline in X-Ray Spex, Lora Lo… more »
Prog (Not Prog?)
Progressive rock signified, as its name implies, the potentially limitles… more »
From the Vault: Slapp Happy/He…
On the face of it, early '70s pop subversives Slapp Happy and free music … more »
Van der Graaf Generator, Real …
There's a clear jazz sensibility about Van Der Graaf Generator, thank… more »
Rough Trade Records: Then
Forget the Clash. Forget the Pistols. In fact, while we're at it, you… more »
Magma, Mekanik destruktiw komm…
Several notable prog-era groups utilized choirs and orchestral instrument… more »
Gong, Best Of Gong
The continental connection also gave the Anglo-French Gong some distance … more »
Henry Cow, Concerts – Re…
Few bands were ever more serious about their music than Henry Cow. Prog p… more »
UK Post-Punk
It wasn't long ago that the phrase "post-punk" lived on onl… more »
Butthole Surfers, Locust Abort…
The progressive instinct still alive in the '80s? You bet. By mid-dec… more »
Sonic Youth, Goodbye 20th Cent…
A strong subtext of the idea of progress in pop has been its relationship… more »
Trumans Water, Laugh Light Lit…
The emergence of Nirvana during 1991 didn't just inspire a reappraisa… more »