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Music / The Set List: Top 5 Progressive Album Covers
Feature — November 16, 2011
Here at SPB we're big fans of pointing out poor cover art, but we're less good at highlighting the classics of the medium. In this new feature we're examining some of the greatest album artwork ever commited to record, and breaking it down by genre. First up: prog rock. Prepare …
Music / The Set List: Top 5 Most Iconic Post / Math Rock Album Covers
Feature — February 1, 2012
5 Battles -- Mirrored (2007) Battles' sound is incredibly difficult to define. While they are firmly rooted in math rock, their incredibly unorthodox and lighthearted style of composition defy easy description. Even now, there are dozens of aspects of their music I can't find the words to properly convey. That's …
Interviews: Marc Euvrie (The Eye of Time)
Feature — May 6, 2012
SPB was recently presented with the opportunity to talk with Marc Euvrie, the man behind the excellent album The Eye of Time. Unfortunately, your writer lives in Vermont, a glorified expressway between New York City and Montréal, and Euvrie happens to reside in France, which is apparently on an …
Interviews: Anders Johansson (Diablo Swing Orchestra)
Feature — September 19, 2012
If you happened to read our review of Diablo Swing Orchestra's Pandora's Piñata, then you'll know that we here at SPB think pretty highly of the swinging metalheads out of Sweden. That's why one of our writers jumped at the chance to send a few questions to the …
Interviews: The Ocean
Feature — November 30, 2013
The Ocean is a monstrous band--and not just by their formidable reputation. The band has seen scores of members come and go over their life span, but one figure has remained a constant presence over their thirteen-year history: frontman Robin Staps. We at SPB had the distinct honour of asking …
One Question Interviews: Aeon Zen
Feature — February 10, 2014
Rich Hinks (Aeon Zen) SPB: What makes a band "progressive"? Hinks: Progressive music, to me, is more of a mindset than a determined style. More often than not it means being able experiment and to allow the music to go wherever it naturally wants to. It's like its own organism. …
One Question Interviews: Ice Dragon
Feature — February 11, 2014
Ron Rochondo (Ice Dragon) SPB: How much recording time is spent purposefully making your music sound artfully dirty, and how much of it is pure happenstance? Rochondo: I love this question, mainly because I think a lot of people think that we are just lazy about recording or don't know …
One Question Interviews: Vultress
Feature — February 11, 2014
Chucho (Vultress) SPB: What is your assessment of the current status of progressive rock as a genre? Chucho: I would say that progressive music is somewhat blossoming right now. More and more I'm seeing bands incorporating new ideas and pulling from both past and present, especially on the metal side. …
One Question Interviews: Lesbian
Feature — February 16, 2014
Lesbian SPB: Is your band name in reference to the sexual orientation, the Greek island, any of the three ships that bore the name SS Lesbian, or the mason rule that can be bent to measure curves with an astonishing degree of accuracy? Lesbian: It's actually all four of those, …
One Question Interviews: From Oceans to Autumn
Feature — February 16, 2014
Brandon Helms, guitar (From Oceans to Autumn) SPB: Whose idea was it to make an album based on Pareto analysis? Helms: Pareto Analysis was our guitarist Brandon's idea. It is a concept that more can be done in less time. That was the main basis for volume 1 of the …
Interviews: The National Lights
Feature — February 17, 2014
Way back in the far gone year of 2005, Jacob Berns and Chris Kiehne got together to record a small set of songs that, beyond their folksy, love story exterior, betrayed a dark and horrific substance. Accompanied by the lovely vocals of Sonya Cotton, those songs became the National Lights's …
