Progressive rock is alive and well, and the British band Syd Arthur is poised to be an integral part of its future. A quartet from Canterbury, Kent, England, Syd Arthur is cut from the same cloth as ...

Syd Arthur is a South by Southwest success story. The four-piece British band—no, it’s not the name of an individual—raised money to attend last year’s annual music industry festival in Austin, Texas.

Psych-rock band Syd Arthur put out their new album, Sound Mirror, earlier this year (which you can still stream), and now they’ve enlisted the remix duo Psychemagik to turn that album’s lead single ...

Syd Arthur is a band name, not a person. It’s an homage to both Syd (as in Barrett, from Pink Floyd, another band that borrowed its singular name from someone outside the lineup) and Arthur (as in the ...

The four-man band Syd Arthur draws from a wide, thriving but nearly forgotten scene. It’s one that rose from the same city the group comes from: Canterbury, England. But the movement died decades ...

What constitutes a musical scene? Its geography? A conflation of specific musical influences? The physical settings in which it is conceived and performed that shape it, that it reacts to? Is it lazy ...

Here’s the first thing you need to know about Syd Arthur: It’s the name of a band, not an individual. “The question we get asked all the time is, ‘Who’s Syd? Which one of you?’” admits Raven Bush, who ...