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Derby has many feathers in its civic cap: one of the first places in the country to have a proper piped water system; a birthplace of the Industrial Revolution;

An unlikely guitar hero, Johnson had a style like no other, and wielded his Tele like a machine gun – the punks and more were paying attention to his sound and stage presence

Concerts - Successfully reunited after a hiatus of more than a decade, the British band Porcupine Tree will perform for the first time in Romania at ARTmania

So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. As a pirate radio deejay, a band manager, promoter and cheerleader, print journalist, BBC radio presenter, arranger of recording sessions, record label owner and all-around presence, Peel held the door for the progressive and idiosyncratic to enter rock & roll, be it psychedelia, garage rock, punk, ...

There was, or is, a band called The Pleasers, whose near hit was a great version of The Who’s The Kids Are Alright. They were, I think, the sole exponents

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King Crimson, Yes, Hawkwind and more — music lovers need to listen to these classic progressive records before writing off the entire genre.

Concerts - Stoned Jesus was founded in Kyiv in 2009 by frontman Igor Sydorenko and, over time, has released four albums – well received by both the public and

Vivian Stanshall was the strikingly eccentric ringleader of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, often described as the UK’s version of the Mothers of Invention. Affecting the manner of an aristocrat, Viv actually hailed from London’s East End, and his kindred spirits were Keith Moon and Paul McCartney, who produced the closest thing the Bonzos had to a hit single. Gary Lucas, former manager of Captain Beefheart and member of his Magic Band, had some memorable encounters with Vivian Stanshall, whom h...

"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing." -Peter Hammill When fine-and-coarse-grained sand is carried by the winds across uneven terrain, sand dunes form here on Earth. But on Mars, where the atmosphere is only 0.7% what it is here, the sand is made of different composition and the winds gust to up to 60 mph (100 kp...