The News Review:

- Wagner’s Ring in Popular Culture
- South By Southwest 2009: Top 10 Moments From A Wild Week f Music
- Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson Discusses His Heavier Side

Wagner’s Ring in Popular Culture
WNYC
Finally heavy metal music also has time and again shown an indebtedness to Wagner. Joey DeMaio the bassist and main composer for the heavy metal band.

South By Southwest 2009: Top 10 Moments From A Wild Week f Music
MTV.com
The Decemberists at Stubb’sImagine if you discovered that not only was your science teacher in a heavy-metal band but that they were actually a really good heavy-metal band. That was the general takeaway from. It was a brave idea to tackle a 60-minute prog opera in front of perhaps the most fickle audience on the planet and.
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Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson Discusses His Heavier Side
Metal Underground
We?d go see them play live me and my friends. And then to be honest I really lost touch with metal for about 20 years. I got into progressive music and Kraut rock and psychedelic music and really lost touch with metal music. I probably didn?t give it much credit for being musically sophisticated. Then around the turn of the century the turn of the millennium in 2000 I suddenly got turned on to this whole scene of extraordinarily ambitious metal groups. It almost answered a question that I?d had which was ?Where are all the interesting musicians going now?? Because they certainly weren?t forming interesting progressive-rock groups. I found most of these guys were forming extreme-metal groups.