There’s an article on the BBC news site about the appearance Porcupine Tree in this week’s UK albums charts. The piece ponders the surge of interest in groups who are are often given the progressive rock tag. "It's no coincidence we are seeing bands like Muse, Porcupine Tree, Sigur Ros, Flaming Lips and The Mars Volta having top 30 albums, because I don't think ambition is a dirty word any more” says SW. You can read the whole piece here.

Elsewhere, Ohio’s News-Herald newspaper ran a preview piece ahead of the band’s sell-out show at Cleveland’s House of Blues. “Porcupine Tree fans, often a zealous and cult-like following, will be happy to hear the band plans on playing "The Incident" nearly in its entirety at its show, with only a few catalog tracks added at the end off the night. It's this dedication or focus to the group's art that perhaps explains why mainstream attention has so far remained elusive.”

Finally, reviewer Jordan Blum of webmag, adequacy.net in his piece on The Incident made this observation. “As I’ve said before, go out and discover some of the good music being made today; music with ambition, with ideas, with musicianship, with songwriting ability. The Incident is an incident in music that must be acknowledged.”

Porcupine Tree are featured on the cover New Jersey’s alt mag, The Aquarian Weekly. In the interview, SW comments upon what he regards as the increasingly unadventurous nature of music being listened to by so many people at the moment. “Nowadays, the music the kids listen to is to is more conservative than the music their parents listened to. Their parents were listening to The Smiths or Slayer or Pink Floyd. Now the kids are listening to Green Day and Metallica, which is much more conservative musically than what their parents were listening to, and I think this is the first generation you could say that of.” You can read the full article here.

This brief preview for the forthcoming sell out show in Toronto describes The Incident as consisting, in part at leasr, of “pummeling, psychedelic proceedings”. Get the whole short but sweet piece here.

Chartattack welcomes The Incident as what it regards as a return to form for the group and finally,there’s this piece wherein SW argues that music is not a product and offers some advice about how to listen to the new album.

"Gavin Harrison is the subject of an interview in which he highlights some of the rhythmic illusions which went into the making of Time Flies; his bemusement at being voted best progressive rock drummer three years in a row; creative choices and some of the compromises that have been made in his time with the band. You can read the full interview here.

There’s a new set of photographs detailing the rehearsals and soundcheck ahead of the band’s show in Seattle over on The Incident on Tour photoblog which you can access over on the main website's tour page.

Finally, here’s a short take on the album from the Soundshock site."




Interview with Steven from dprp.net

Secondly, Be sure to check out this excellent interview with Steven, in which he discusses concepts behind The Incident and more!

http://www.dprp.net/specials/2009_porcupinetree/