The Band Wagon USA

09/11/2026

"Time & Tide: The Songs of Big Big Train" – PUBLISHED TODAY!

“A compelling story told of a band whose determinedly progressive style has deservedly earned them a cult following.” CLASSIC ROCK

“If you have any interest whatsoever in the music of Big Big Train, you need to get this book. It is full of detail that will enhance your enjoyment of music you probably already love, yet it is written and presented in a way that will keep you turning the pages.” THE PROG REPORT

“A fascinating and highly readable treasure house of information and insight… Highly recommended reading for anyone curious about the music of Big Big Train, be they new to the journey or seasoned passengers. Time & Tide leaves the reader entertained, enlightened and eager to dive back into every single Big Big Train track, armed with all the new insights they have so enjoyably acquired.” THE PROGRESSIVE ASPECT

“Engaging and authoritative, and magnificently illustrated… Easy and enjoyable to read, both as a casual companion and a reference work.” RECORD COLLECTOR

“Time & Tide is the real deal. The detail is amazing. It’s a Big Big Trainspotter’s delight.” PROG MAGAZINE

Time & Tide: The Songs Of Big Big Train has been published today and can be ordered from Burning Shed or The Band Wagon USA or the Band Wagon EU.

Order Your Copy:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/en-gb/collections/kingmaker-publishing

09/11/2026

Solstice's "New Life: 2026 Remaster" has arrived on both CD and Colored LP.

Pick up your copy now at:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/solstice

Originally released in 1993, "New Life" returns in a beautifully remastered edition, showcasing a pivotal chapter in Solstice's history. At the time, only founder Andy Glass and drummer Peter Hemsley were part of the lineup, yet the album already captured the unmistakable spirit that has made Solstice one of the most uplifting and distinctive bands in progressive rock.

Blending melodic neo-prog, folk rock and subtle new age influences, "New Life" radiates warmth, optimism and effortless musicality. Highlights such as the epic Guardian perfectly illustrate the band's signature sound, combining soaring vocal harmonies, exquisite violin passages and inspired guitar work. The atmospheric instrumental The Sea offers a moment of pure serenity, while the title track and Pathways bring a more energetic edge.

Remarkably, the album sounds every bit as fresh and vibrant today as it did over three decades ago. The remaster enhances its rich, airy production without losing any of its original charm. This new edition also includes three live recordings from 2023 and 2026, demonstrating just how timeless these compositions remain on stage.

A superb remaster of a classic Solstice album, "New Life" is an essential release for long-time fans and an ideal introduction to the band's early years.

Formed in 1980 in Milton Keynes UK, Solstice is a progressive folk-rock band led by Andy Glass, the band’s sole remaining founding member. Their music is characterised by progressive rock elements, heavy folk, and new age touches. The band has undergone several lineup changes but have maintained a...

09/10/2026

We've got a little secret for our Big Big Train fans! 🤫

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day for Team Train with the release of "Time & Tide: The Songs Of Big Big Train", maybe a fun little video, and a weekly newsletter that will contain the information we've been given the ok to sneak out to you today.

Rest assured this is not fake news. The official word will come down from the band tomorrow as soon as Management and The Station Master have a moment to catch their breaths and ice their fingers.

What are we talking about?
Well...

The band have had some long out of print and some more recently out of print titles repressed in advance of the upcoming Woodcut & Other Stories Tour. These titles have been repressed in VERY limited numbers, so we suggest you head on over to the band's official stores (The Band Wagon USA, The Band Wagon EU, and Burning Shed) and order copies now. While there are plans to take these titles on the tour, there is no guarantee that they won't sell out incredibly quickly.

Which titles?
Drumroll please...

*Goodbye To The Age Of Steam
*English Boy Wonders
*Bard
*Gathering Speed
*The Difference Machine
*Far Skies Deep Time
*English Electric Part 1
*English Electric Part 2
*Folklore

You will find all of these titles available now at The Band Wagon USA. https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/big-big-train

You will find all of these titles available tomorrow at The Band Wagon EU and Burning Shed.

09/10/2026

IT'S A RELEASE DAY!!

"White Shores", the fifth studio album by Swiss post-rock band hubris. is out day.

Following four albums rooted in Greek mythology, composer and founder Jonathan Hohl turns to another profound source of inspiration: J.R.R. Tolkien and more specifically his exploration of mortality and immortality.

The elves, in Tolkien’s legendarium, refer to death as the “Gift of Men.” They regard mortality not as a curse, but as a unique gift granted to humankind. This paradox offers a striking alternative to the Western perception of death as purely tragic, presenting it instead as coveted and desirable. In the wake of the passing of Jonathan’s grandfather, this idea became the emotional and conceptual foundation of "White Shores".

Order your copy today:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/hubris




Special Note: This release has made its way to US shores, but not to our doorstep just yet. We expect it will land on Saturday and orders should start going out on Monday. Patience is, as always, appreciated when it comes to international shipping these days.

hubris. is a post-rock band originating from Fribourg, Switzerland. Formed in 2014, the instrumental quartet is characterized by their original style that blends an experimental touch of post-rock, electronica atmosphere and some elements of the metal scene. They draw their inspiration from bands li...

09/09/2026

NEW PRE-ORDER ALERT!!

Resistor has announced their 8th studio album "Beyond" will be released October 9, 2026.

Three tracks, forty-four minutes, one continuous arc. Beyond is Resistor’s first album since 2023’s Illuminator, and the most ambitious record the band has made: an opening salute to the music that started it all, a wordless flight in the middle, and a twenty-four minute title suite that follows one consciousness out past the edge of itself and back again.

Nostalgia opens with the windows down and the signal cranked up, thirteen minutes of open homage to the records that made these four musicians pick up instruments in the first place. Antares answers it without a single word of lyric, Rob Winslow’s bass moving under a wordless vocal line. Beyond takes the entire second half of the album, travelling from a valley of wildflowers through an instrumental passage the band calls "The Experience" and into a three-voice fugue, before waking back on a bedroom floor with the walls still standing and everything changed.

Nineteen years of standing rehearsals sit behind these three songs. Resistor is a band of friends first workshopping every piece together long before anyone records a note, then tracking it instrument by instrument, with Steve Unruh in the room for every drum session so he and Barry Farrands could trade ideas as the takes went down. Don Schiff’s NS/Stick threads through both Nostalgia and Beyond and transforms them; his artistic stamp is all over this record. Mixed and mastered by Unruh.

Pre-Order Your Copy Today:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/resistor

Resistor is a progressive rock quartet from Rhode Island. Their music is written and recorded using electric and acoustic guitars, voice, bass, drums, violin, flute, occasionally keyboards, and even a kazoo. Much of the music is instrumental. However, storytelling plays a big part in their persona,....

09/08/2026

NEW PRE-ORDER ALERT!!

Sonus Umbra will release their 9th studio album "Liminality" on October 9, 2026.

"Liminality" is what happens when a composer is handed a deadline by his own body. Sonus Umbra founder and bassist Luis Nasser was diagnosed with a brain tumor gnarly enough that it took two surgeries to remove. Somewhere in the ICU, wracked in pain and facing what he calls his quantum ex*****on. He was asked a question by the void: Death or life?

He chose life. Then came the hallucinations, and with them the music. “My brain became an antenna,” Nasser writes, and he scribbled what it received onto hospital napkins as fast as he could, before it faded like the memory of a dream. He walked out of the hospital with a stack of napkins, no story, and a covenant he had no idea how to honor.

The clarity came later, on a night walk through Parque España in Mexico City, in conversation with Rosa María Sánchez García, to whom the album is dedicated. She listened to the ICU story and gave it back to him in the form of a mirror. What had been an alien language became an image he could see and use: two chapters, seven pieces, one passage through the threshold.

Chapter 1 opens in the ward, moves through the self-devouring, arrives at the choice itself, and dissolves into instrumental hallucination. Chapter 2 is the crossing: a three-part suite that walks the synapse maze, reframes pain as teacher rather than monster, and comes out the other side after years that felt like falling in a hole in a hole in a hole…

Pre-Order Now At:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/sonus-umbra

Sonus Umbra have been making composed, coordinated sound for more than three decades. Founded by bassist Luis Nasser and rooted in Chicago, the collective has built a catalogue that Nasser describes, dryly, as approximating “what librarians call prog rock.” The lineup shifts by design, drawing o...

09/07/2026

NEW PRE-ORDER!!

Strawbs "Grave New World Live" will be released on October 23 - a one-time, limited pressing on 180g Red LP only.

In developing Strawbs 50th Anniversary in 2019, David decided that the programme should include the only live performance of the album. As such, he invited Wesley Stace to collaborate with him in writing a narration for this ‘theatrical performance’.

John Ford and Blue Weaver, both of whom had performed on the original album, were invited to take part. They were joined by Wesley Stace, Eric Bazilian (of the Ho***rs), Tony Fernandez, Brian Willoughby and Cathryn Craig. With only an afternoon’s rehearsal, the performance took place on the early evening of April 27.

In addition to the numbers that David sang, and Wesley’s narration, John Ford sang "Heavy Disguise" and Wesley performed "The Flower and the Young Man".

David’s ill health, together with COVID-19, meant that it wasn’t possible for Grave New World Live to be completed as soon as he would have wished. Work had already been started by Larry Fast, a pioneer in electronic music production, and record producer Blue Weaver, before David’s death in July 2025. In accordance with his wishes, this recording, on vinyl like the original, is now presented as the first major work from the 50th Anniversary. Unlike many “live” albums, however, the songs are heard as they were performed.

Pre-Order Your Copy Today:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/the-strawbs

The Strawbs, originally known as the Strawberry Hill Boys, are a British band that formed in 1964. They started as a bluegrass trio before evolving into a unique fusion of folk rock, progressive rock, and symphonic elements. With a career spanning over five decades, the Strawbs have earned a place a...

09/06/2026

Selling so well, we had to get more...
BACK IN STOCK

Pattern-Seeking Animals "Grimalkin" on CD & Marbled Stone-Grey LP available at:
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/pattern-seeking-animals

Originally, a vehicle for a few tracks John Boegehold had been working on in early 2018, he quickly came up with enough music to work towards producing an album. With that in mind, he enlisted the talents of Jimmy Keegan (drums & vocals), Ted Leonard (vocals & guitar) & Dave Meros (bass)...

09/06/2026

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09/05/2026

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Streaming Tickets for ProgStock 2026 Go On Sale on StageIt starting Sunday, September 6 at 12PM. All mainstage shows, including opening acts, will be streamed as separate events. The T-shirt pre-order ends when streaming tickets go on sale. All In-Person Passes for ProgStock 2026 Are On Sale Now in Our Box Office. T-shirts can be pre-ordered with passes in the Box Office or separately in the ProgStock Store - https://mailchi.mp/df30d2870803/streaming