Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Greg Cristman The Security Project at BB King's - 8/11/12 While Peter Gabriel is gearing up to take his So album on tour, former members of his band and King Crimson teamed up as The Security Project to... more info

Guardian Music — Were Stock, Aitken and Waterman the utter nadir of pop, or unfairly maligned geniuses? A bit of both, perhapsNext week, Hyde Park plays host to The Hit Factory Live, a celebration of the music of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. It's an event almost gu... more info

melophobe — Credit drummer/producer Alaska B for making this blended—post-punk, metal, opera, ambient, prog—sound not just natural but seamless. There’s a lot of moving parts here, with singing both in English (which I sorta deciphered through the noise) a... more info

Guardian Music — Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS EliotThe New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wr... more info

Metal Injection — Dream Theater are bringing their prog nerdgasm on the road yet again for the second leg of their tour supporting their most recent release, A Dramatic Turn Of Events. The band will be taking out the Crimson Projekct, which is basically former members... more info

Metalsucks — UPDATE, 1:52 pm: Yup, the band just announced a full tour. Dates after after the jump; original story follows. The National in Richmond, Virgina, has announcedthat Dream Theater will play a headlining show there on July 12, with support coming from ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — London band The Fierce And The Dead goes for a tougher sound on their new EP On VHS. With four tracks that can be labeled as instrumental prog metal, Stevens, Feazy and Marshall grit their teeth to follow each others improvised chord progressions a... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Chico, CA prog quintet Clouds On Strings have made a concept EP about fruit. That's right, about fruit. Pomology puts the spotlight on an Apple, a Banana, a Kiwi and a Grapefuit. These guys sound old school in a good way. All the fun aside these g... more info

Guardian Music — Canada's Voivod are one of heavy metal's most unique, beloved treasures. Now their extraordinary early recordings are getting an official releaseFor Voivod's drummer Michel Langevin – known as Away, supposedly owing to a now impossible-to-perceive ... more info

Guardian Music — Nick Cave's garage band to issue Grinderman 2 RMX, featuring 12 last pieces of gnarly noise before their 'indefinite hiatus'Although Nick Cave announced the end of the Grinderman last month, the band are set for one last hurrah. They will say farewel... more info