In UK stores from this coming Wednesday (October 15th) is the new issue - the 50th - of Prog magazine, and once you are past the rather eye-catching, if a little alarmist, cover, within its pages you'll find an interview with David Gilmour and Nick Mason, talking about the making of Pink Floyd's much-anticipated new album, The Endless River.

The publishers have pulled out the following quote: "I think we have successfully commandeered the best of what there is. I suspect this is it!" We will naturally update this story once we have the magazine in our hands, and can share more detail of what the article covers.

Elsewhere in the magazine, there's coverage of the Prog Awards and interviews with all the winners. There's also exclusive interviews with Flying Colors, Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty, Anthony Phillips, Steve Rothery, Philip Selway, North Atlantic Oscillation, Anna Phoebe, Iamthemorning and Grumbling Fur. All this is housed in a special gatefold magazine cover!

You can purchase the magazine, either single issues or as a subscription, internationally through this direct link. Prog is also available on iPad, Google Play, Kindle and Nook.

More from the upcoming and much anticipated The Endless River project for you! This evening, a short but very interesting EPK ("Electronic Press Kit") has been released by Pink Floyd, with David Gilmour and Nick Mason talking about the background to the album, which comes out in a month's time.

You can view it over at YouTube, at the Floyd's official channel there, or indeed you can see it below:

With apologies for the short notice, this morning at 8:30am, David Gilmour and Nick Mason are being interviewed on BBC Radio 6Music as part of their morning show.

BBC6 Music can be heard in much of Europe, online at www.BBC.co.uk, and the show itself can be heard via the BBC's iPlayer service following broadcast. Listeners worldwide may also be able to tune in via the TuneIn app for Apple/Android devices. More info on the show here. Our thanks to Matt at the Floyd Podcast for tipping us off about this!

UPDATE: The interview has now been aired, and included bits and pieces from the album, alongside some very interesting insights from David and Nick, who were interviewed on Astoria, David's houseboat recording studio. For those who have missed the interview, it is now available as a separate entity to the programme itself, on the BBC's iPlayer service for seven days following broadcast, through this direct link. It is also here for your listening pleasure:

Just published is the latest issue (number 24 - cover date September 2014) of the Pink Floyd fanzine "Heyou" run by our friends over at the Italian website of the same name.

The 52-page dual language magazine (in Italian and English), which is published every six months or so, catches up with things in the Floyd world this year, but with a packed issue, its normal news coverage takes a bit of a break in favour of larger features.

As hinted at by the front cover, the magazine includes major coverage of 'The Nights of Wonder', an exhibition that runs until October 26th relating to the 1989 Venice concert. Some 42 pages are devoted to it, with a large number of unseen pictures from the event, fascinating recollections of those who were there, and an interview with Fran Tomasi, promoter of the concert itself.

Elsewhere in its pages, there's more relating to Tomasi, with coverage of the now postponed official exhibition, Their Mortal Remains. There's also mention of The Endless River, the new album from Pink Floyd which comes out next month.

More details of the Heyou fanzine can be found at www.heyou.it/fsubscrbd.htm, where you can get individual copies, and subscription enquiries (four issues costing 30 euros within Europe, and 40 euros outside Europe) should go to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - make sure you mention Brain Damage when you write!