Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the end of 1976, after three albums over the remarkable two years since their reunion, Van der Graaf Generator were making some ...

You can't have a serious conversation about the infancy of progressive rock without citing Van der Graff Generator (VdGG) as one of the genre's driving forces amid its influence back in the '70s and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts cover art. Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts Ostensibly a tale about the wrath of the sea, ...

The awkward squad of prog rock discuss being punk before there was a name for it, and the continuing joy of making unconventional music It takes a great deal of fearlessness and determination to make ...

Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! When punk hit, only a few ‘progressive’ bands were deemed acceptable; King Crimson, perhaps, but most definitely Van Der Graaf ...

A brand new film highlighting Van der Graaf Generator's only live show in the US from the 1970s, is to air this evening (UK time) on YouTube. Van der Graaf Generator - NYC '76 has been created by band ...

So said a drawn-looking, jumpy Peter Hammill on 17 June 1978. He’s on Austrian TV, sitting on an unmade bed in a hotel room, with a cigarette in his hand – a packet of Camels sits on the adjacent ...

"Wavering between the absurd and the inspirational." "Delectable chaos." "Lightning in a bottle." "A dishevelled dream world where Coltrane plays with King Crimson." Van der Graaf Generator have never ...

Van Der Graaf Generator may have been early figureheads of the progressive scene, but their love of noise and chaos marks them out as one of the UK’s greatest avant rock bands. Joe Banks dives deep ...

When, in 2005, Van Der Graaf Generator released its first album in over 25 years, the reunited group proved it was not only possible to go back, but that it could be done without sacrificing ...

Van Der Graaf Generator are most certainly one of those bands. OK, the name’s slightly ungainly, and sometimes ditto the band – but by god, the one thing they weren’t (or rather aren’t, seeing as VDGG ...