Dream Theater talks about its new album, Mike Portnoy reunion ahead of San Antonio performance

Back in the mid-'70s, progressive rock bands were roundly criticized for their excessive displays of instrumental virtuosity, shifting time signatures, banks of synthesizers, and fondness for concept albums. Prominent Rolling Stone critic Lester Bangs went so far as to blame them for “the insidious befoulment of all that was gutter pure in rock.” Years later, bands like Radiohead would wince any time the term showed up in reviews.