Prog Notes

While most of the bands in the early days of progressive rock hailed from cities in England, Destin and Drew show that the genre can be found all over the world as they discuss Hawaii, a double album ...

22 Jul 20191h 25min

Porcupine Tree is one of the most recognizable names in modern progressive rock, and their groundbreaking album In Absentia has become a classic within the prog-rock community. It turned a page in the...

28 Mai 20191h 25min

Destin and Drew jump forward several years and analyze the more modern side of progressive rock with Tool's Lateralus. Tool's approach to their music is quite peculiar and can even be alienating to th...

5 Mai 20191h 15min

(Pt. 2) Destin and Drew are joined again by the venerable Rachel Brown to discuss the dark, dreamy, and mystifying art-rock masterpiece Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project. Ra...

1 Apr 20191h 21min

(Pt. 1) Destin and Drew are joined again by the venerable Rachel Brown to discuss the dark, dreamy, and mystifying art-rock masterpiece Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project. Ra...

1 Apr 20191h 7min

Destin and Drew behold the juggernaut Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull which was described by Ian Anderson as "the mother of all concept albums." With the rise of progressive rock in the early 1970s, t...

12 Mar 20191h 12min

Destin and Drew open the “discussion door” to one of the defining prog-rock groups with this episode on Selling England By The Pound by Genesis. By this point in their career, whether they intended to...

21 Jan 201959min

Some of the most identifiable aspects of early progressive rock groups were the larger concepts and lengthier arrangements that would accompany them, resulting in the concept album. In this episode, D...

2 Jan 201945min