Wiki has this to say about Progressive Rock:
Progressive rock (often shortened to "progressive", "prog", or "prog rock") is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", though the two genres are not identical.
And in other news, Streamload, which used to host all my music samples for the blog, had been bought out, or was attempting to morph into MediaMax. Anyway, the process was not smooth, the files wouldn't download anymore and it just became really frustrating. Well they just shut down entirely. They couldn't transfer all the files over to mediamax and simply gave up. Very nice.
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Mediamax never actually stored the files. Mediamax took over the customer services part of Streamload. The servers and data storage were spun off at that time as a new company called Nirvanix was set up. According to a report, it was Nirvanix that accidently deleted millions of files 2007, which damaged Mediamax's image fatally. Mediamax rebranded as The Linkup, but never recovered and is now filing for bankruptcy. The files are still on the Nirvanix servers (those that were not deleted, though some of those may still be recoverable). Mediamax said: "I think the only time we intentionally lied was when we denied being a customer of Nirvanix. That was a Nirvanix demand.... Your files are at Nirvanix. It's now up to them to decide if they want to give you access to MediaMax."
The initial response from Nirvanix is to refuse to do more than keep the files until 8 August for users to download through The Linkup interface. Yet 45% of file links never made it into The Linkup database from the Mediamax one. Nirvanix has the data, but will destroy it (to make more space on its servers to sell to other unknown interface companies) unless people campaign for THEIR DATA to be returned to them. See:
http://nirvanixusers.blogspot.com/
I like using the term "artsy music" when describing aternative Brit-pop.
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