Steven Wilson Books a World Tour – New Album Incoming


Musician/songwriter/producer, Steven Wilson, has announced the North American leg of The Overview Tour, his first full-band solo headline run in the US and Canada in over seven years. These shows come in support of his upcoming Fiction Records album, The Overview, out March 14th. The Live Nation produced run starts September 9 at San Francisco, CA’s The Masonic and continue through mid-October, with stops at The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA, Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON, MTELUS, Montreal, QC, and Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY. Find the live listings and more below.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Steven Wilson – The Harmony Codex


After last year’s triumphant and sad return for the final lap with Porcupine Tree, Prog music’s King, Steve Wilson was already planning his new solo album. After releasing an astounding album and a brief world tour to say goodbye, he is back to assert his dominance as a solo artist. While his signature sound is all over The Harmony Codex (Virgin Music Group), he has enlisted a bevy of conspirators to create his next epic musical adventure. Continue reading


REVIEWS ROUND-UP: ft. Luke Elliot – The Intersphere – Oceanlord – Godsticks


 

There’s something romantic and cinematic about adopted New Jersey (via Norway) songwriter Luke Elliot’s third album, Let ‘em All Talk (Icons Creating Evil Art) over and above the wistful storytelling. ‘I (Who Have Nothing)’, all film-noir meets spaghetti western vibes with its orchestral flecks, feels torn from an as-yet-unwritten Tarrantino follow-up to Django Unchained, or perhaps the lead single to the debuting next James Bond, while ‘William Tell’ could have been one of the musical interludes from Black Mariah’s club in Luke Cage (Netflix version). 

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