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Ace Mark from Bigelf is currently on the road with the Progressive Nation 2009 tour with Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale the Summit. He hates people who write about themselves in the third person. Denver After a day off in Omaha, Neb...

Ace Mark from Bigelf is currently on the road with the Progressive Nation 2009 tour with Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale the Summit. He hates people who write about themselves in the third person. Winnipeg, Manitoba After a dreadful 24-hour drive from Toronto to Winnipeg, we finally got to the Burton Cummings Theater...

Ace Mark from Bigelf is currently on the road with the Progressive Nation 2009 tour with Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa and Scale The Summit. He hates people who write about themselves in the third person. Asbury Park, N.J.After a well-needed, relaxing day off in New Jersey, it was time to drive to the Convention Hall by the beach...

Mike Portnoy has more than just a hand in the Progressive Nation tour, currently in its second year. While his band, Dream Theater, has headlined both years of the tour's incarnation, the drummer, an avid music fan, also curated both years' lineups...

A couple of weeks back, 'True Blood' fan and Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy stopped by the Noisecreep offices – not long after the launch of the band's Progressive Nation tour with Zappa Plays Zappa, Scale the Summit and Bigelf – to talk to us about a number of things. Like what?...