:Prog Archives

{{Short description|Fan-based website about progressive rock}}

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Prog Archives is an online fan-based website with information on progressive rock bands and musicians.{{cite book|author1=Andy Bennett|author2=Susanne Janssen|title=Popular Music, Cultural Memory, and Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf-GDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT191|date=2019-07-09|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-79001-7|pages=191}} Teams evaluate whether the band or musician should be added to the website or not. As of the summer of 2014, the website had web pages on 8,671 bands and musicians, which has grown 2023 to articles of about 70,725 albums from 12,157 bands and artists, as well as more than 1.9 million ratings and reviews from 67,363 members.{{cite web |url=http://www.progarchives.com/ |title=[Introduction] |work=ProgArchives |accessdate=2023-02-07}} The website has regular and consistent reviews, biographies and discographies of all bands and albums it considers to be from the progressive rock genre.{{cite web |url= https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/64589/wfmu-prog-archives-and-ted-leo|publisher= billboard|title=WFMU, Prog Archives and Ted Leo|date=2005-01-11|accessdate=2020-04-09}} It has also categorised 22 subgenres of progressive rock.

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