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Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks @Westbury Music Fair, 5.16.25

On Friday evening I shook off my introverted-ness enough to head out to Westbury, NY to see Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks perform a selection of (mostly) Yes classics, with a few choice cuts from their stellar 2024 album True sprinkled throughout the band’s two sets. Armed with nothing but a crappy camera phone I got to see a legend sing and wave his tambourine around like it was still the md-70s, despite the man himself being in his 80s. It was wonderful, and to memorialize it I wanted to throw a few words up here.

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Consuming in 2024: My Favorite Music

Finally. As of this morning you can listen to my buddy Dan and I wax rhapsodic about our favorite non-metal albums of 2024 wherever you get your podcasts, which means it’s time to finally get down to bees-niss and sum up the year in new music. I already recapped most of the metal selections in my various (Un)Focused Definition playlists, and of course you can hit the “best of 2024” tag to read the reviews for many of them regardless of genre. We’ll use a lot of same categories I used back in 2021, and add a few more to talk about the stuff that wasn’t completely reviewed here on the site. Let’s get to it below the jump.

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Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks: True (2024)

Let this be a lesson: NEVER judge a book by its cover. I know…True, the new album from Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks has a startlingly bad cover1. It might put you off to checking out the music within, and that would be a damn shame. Because what we have here is a terrific set of musicians challenging the former Yes frontman to craft the best Yes album in the last 40 years. And damn if Anderson didn’t do just that: bring the classic prog sound (well, classic from the late 70s to early 80s) into the modern era with panache and style. True rocks, it rolls, and it progs like nobody’s business, and it’s probably my favorite album of the year, at least when it comes to playing an album at top volume and breaking my throat trying to sing along every chance I get. What more can you ask for?

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 16: Into the Prog Machine, 2024 Edition

A quick one, because it’s 6am as I write this on the day it’s supposed to go live, and I have to leave to take my son on a college visit in an hour. I’m also 7 reviews into my Hooptober marathon, so if you want to read about all sorts of horror films you can check that out over at Cinema Dual. In the meantime, ‘et get into some of the new prog that’s been keeping me afloat in 2024, shall we?

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