{"id":506,"date":"2026-03-06T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:03:43","slug":"2026-01-19-something-else-preston-fraziers-best-of-2025-pop-and-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"2026-01-19 &#8211; Something Else Preston Frazier&#8217;s Best Of 2025 Pop And Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-something-else wp-block-embed-something-else\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LNtexdp7X8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/somethingelsereviews.com\/2026\/01\/19\/steve-porcaro-vernon-reid-steve-morse-best-of-2025\/\">Steve Porcaro, Vernon Reid, Steve Morse + Others: Preston Frazier&#8217;s Best of 2025 Pop and Rock<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Steve Porcaro, Vernon Reid, Steve Morse + Others: Preston Frazier&#8217;s Best of 2025 Pop and Rock&#8221; &#8212; Something Else!\" src=\"https:\/\/somethingelsereviews.com\/2026\/01\/19\/steve-porcaro-vernon-reid-steve-morse-best-of-2025\/embed\/#?secret=aaEm6aETw9#?secret=LNtexdp7X8\" data-secret=\"LNtexdp7X8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AMBIENT DEN \u2013 \u2018AMBIENT DEN\u2019: Prog rocker Ben Craven has been a favorite of mine since his 2016\u2019s exquisite Last Chance to Hear. He\u2019s produced several stellar solo works since then, occasionally teamed up with keyboardist Tim Bennetts (Seven Day Mask) (including their work on Progaustralis live) and drummer Dean Posey from Craven\u2019s Frankenfido projects. Ambient Den represents a dedicated project for these three like-minded musicians. This LP features well-crafted, superbly written and excellently played progressive rock that stands out among other 2025 offerings in the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMBIENT DEN \u2013 \u2018AMBIENT DEN\u2019: Prog rocker Ben Craven has been a favorite of mine since his 2016\u2019s exquisite Last Chance to Hear. He\u2019s produced several stellar solo works since then, occasionally teamed up with keyboardist Tim Bennetts (Seven Day Mask) (including their work on Progaustralis live) and drummer Dean Posey from Craven\u2019s Frankenfido projects.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/?p=506\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026-01-19 &#8211; Something Else Preston Frazier&#8217;s Best Of 2025 Pop And Rock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}