Prog-Watch

This week's program is a themed special called "Life Is A Long Song". Every tune played will have the word "Song" in the title. There will be lots of progressive stuff, of course, but also quite a few curve balls! Come along for the ride and see if you can guess some of the tracks that I will be playing!

It's a bit of a mash up on Prog-Watch this week, with picks by a friend of the show named Jim Donak (from Captain Beyond, Chris Vrenna, Wobbler, and Van der Graaf Generator), a couple of new ones (from Pryzme and Daidrum), and another voyage of Progressive Discovery with Dr. Rob Fisher, looking at the latest album by Djabe and Steve Hackett! All in 90 minutes!  

This episode of 101 Dimensions features nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive music from David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor, Eddie Jobson, Patrick Moraz, Manuel Gottsching, Mannheim Steamroller, and Enya!  

Lots of fantastic contemporary stuff this week from Jethro Tull, Karmakanic, Brass Camel, Brendan Perkins, Red Bazar, Chakra Vimana, IQ, and Magic Pie! Also, I have four more artists featured in the latest edition of PROG Magazine...Clarissa Connelly, Devrev, Leoni Jane Kennedy, and Venamoris!  

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmakanic, Echolyn, SomewhereOut, and Mostly Autumn! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by the Cheryl Stringall and Tony Lowe project Lyrella!  

This edition of 101 Dimensions (curated by me) features nearly 2 hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from AeTopus, Focus, Wendy Carlos, Red Shift, and David Helpling & Jon Jenkins!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and this time they are all contemporary songs! Tune in to hear great music from Echolyn, Southern Empire, Neal Morse, Steven Wilson, and Motorpsycho!  

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the 158th edition of Prog Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Sykofant, Jethro Tull, Red Bazar, Tribe3, The Aurora Project, Tiberius, Godsticks, Seventh Station, Flor de Loto, Imaginaerium, iCobbles, and Dream Theater! I hope you will join me!

This edition of 101 Dimensions (curated by me) features nearly 2 hours of electronic/ambient progressive music from Johan Agebjörn, David Arkenstone, Yak, Ash Ra Tempel, and Ben Cross!

There's no half-way on Prog-Watch this week, as we get ALL OR NOTHING! With tons of tasty, themed tunes from Starcastle, UK, Traffic, Gentle Giant, David Gilmour, Jethro Tull, George Harrison, Unitopia, Steve Howe, Lobate Scarp, The Cars, Rush, Blind Faith, Kevin Gilbert, Arc Of Life, Peter Banks, Mott The Hoople, and The Alan Parsons Project!  

More astounding, new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from PROG Magazine artists Henge, Third Quadrant, Crisalida, and Kanaan & Aevestaden! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album Urban Vision by Italian artist Nicola Lori!  

This was a fun older show that I thought was worthy of a bit of a facelift. So here it is: the second covers special I did with improved audio quality! It features a lot of interesting stuff from Kevin Gilbert, Robert Berry and friends, Daryl Stuermer, Erik Norlander, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Fish, Rush, 3, Unitopia, Dream Theater, Yes, Echolyn, Steve Howe, and Arjen Lucassen! I hope you enjoy!  

Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Overhead The Albatross, Tom Penaguin, Oddleaf, Motorpsycho, and We Are Bodies! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Brazilan duo Fleesh!  

This week on Prog-Watch: Part Two of the big collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2024! With great music from Meer, Marco Gluhmann, Returned to the Earth, Frost*, Nolan Potter, Kavus Torabi, Amarok, Beardfish, the Barock Project, the ESP Project, and the Pineapple Thief! And thanks again to all the contributors: Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!  

Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2024! This year's contributors include Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Oddleaf, David Gilmour, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Fleesh, Circuline, Big Big Train, Tim Bowness, Stuckfish, and Neal Morse and the Resonance! Part 2 will follow next week!  

For this year's Christmas Special, I dug back deep into the Archives and dusted off the first one, from the very first Season of Prog-Watch back in 2014! On this program I was joined by my youngest (by about a minute) son, Paul, and we chatted and reminisced a little, and played some Christmas favorites from mostly Progressive artists. I updated the tracks to higher quality, and added a few since the show was a little short by today's standards. I hope you enjoy! Happy Holidays...however you celebrate!

This week's program is a variety show with lots of interesting tracks suggested by Guest DJ (and one of my Patrons of the Progressive Arts) Mr. Paul Watson! Plus, another crop from artists featured in this month's PROG Magazine! We'll hear tons of tasty tunes from Pencarrow, 7BZH, Vulgar Unicorn, i Häxa, Demians, Fish On Friday, No Brain Cell, Kalandra, Airbag, Gazpacho, Arabs In Aspic, and Ruby Dawn!  

This week our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, flies solo for the first time and presents an entire episode of Prog-Watch on his own! The program is an Our Progressive Planet feature centered on Japan, and includes music from Asturias, Ars Nova, Bi Kyo Ran, Hiromi Uehara, Kitaro, KBB, Cichla Temensis, Yuka & Chronoship, Kumorigahara, Ryo Okumoto, Gerard, and Outer Limits!  

Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Frost*, Raven Sad, and PROG Magazine artists Civil Service, Mark Barron, Giant Walker, and Ebony Buckle! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the UK project Long Earth!  

This month's excursion into the realm of 101 Dimensions features an eclectic set of music from Church of Hed, Pijn, Vibravoid, Adult Cinema, and Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher.  

On 2 November, the great Keith Emerson would have turned 80. To honor this anniversary I have remastered the Keith Emerson Tribute program I did in the aftermath of his tragic death. The program has lots of great Emerson music (with The Nice, ELP, and ELPowell) and also features commentary from some great contemporary keyboard players, including Erik Norlander, Aaron Clift, Dave Kerzner, and Luca Zabbini. I hope you will join me in remembering a legend of the Prog Rock genre, who we lost too soon.  

Awesome new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Jadis, PRP, Nick Fletcher, Stuckfish, and Adult Cinema! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Tony Lowe's ESP Project!  

My 101 Dimensions offering for this month includes great music from Röyksopp, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Sequentia Legenda, and Paul Ellis!  

On this week's program we will look at the use of odd time signatures in Progressive Rock (and occasionally in Mainstream Rock). We'll hear from some of the big names like Yes, Genesis, The Flower Kings, Pink Floyd, Rush, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and more! Plus, a few surprises from the "mainstream"!

Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Kite Parade, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Thrailkill, Airbag, Emerald City Council, Pallas, the ESP Project, and Circuline! As if that was not enough, I will also have a nice crop of music by four artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Ex-Easter Island Head, We Are Space Horses, Jakub Zytecki, and the Emily Francis Trio!

This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by your friendly neighborhood Prog-Squatch) features great progressive, electronic, and ambient music from Enigmatic Sound Machines, Bart Hawkins, Frore, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, and Sverre Knut Johansen!    

This week's Prog-Watch is guest-hosted by Dr. Rob Fisher, and is focused on the great Jethro Tull composer, vocalist, and front-man, Ian Anderson! The program was curated by Rob (with assitance from Jamie Robertson, author of Music Measures Memories and a guest on Prog-Watch 1120) and centers on Anderson as a vocalist! Tune in for a lot of great vocal performances from Anderson, and insights from Rob and Jamie!

Lots of astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear brand new music from Amarok, Nick Magnus, Reliqa, Magic Fig, A Burial At Sea, and Sonus Umbra! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by France's Sloane Square Band!

This month's 101 Dimensions program curated by Your Truly features music from Alber Jupiter, Erik Norlander, Klaus Schulze, and Time Being!

For this week's Prog-Watch I have put together a different kind of program. A death in my family and the need to travel to the funeral left me with no time to put together a proper show, and I didn't want to go with another From the Archives episode. As a compromise, I decided to put together a kind of stream-of-consciousness program full of random stuff from the 1980s. After a brief preamble you will not hear me and my usual patter, just lots of cool tunes. Thanks for your understanding, and I hope you enjoy Whatnot from the 1980s!   Here's the playlist: 1129 Playlist

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Ritual, Alphaline, Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Circuline, and Long Earth! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with The Waterline, the debut solo album by Andy Nixon!

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the June edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic new stuff from the Barock Project, John Holden, the Legacy Pilots, Hats Off Gentlemen, Nektar, Marjana Semkina, Airbag, and The Slow Light! And from PROG: Teiger, Last Plane Out, Oudeziel, and Candacraig! I hope you will join me!

There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Hasse Fröberg and Musical Companion, John Holden, the Barock Project, The Raging Project, Karfagen, Marjana Semkina, Age of Distraction, and Flame Dream! Plus, a little tribute to the late Richard Tandy of ELO.

My 101 Dimensions program for June includes great electronic, ambient, progressive music by Klaus Schulze, Dark Sky Alliance, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren! 

Join Rob Fisher and Yours Truly this week for a little guided tour of the vibrant progressive rock scene in Norway! With fabulous Nordic prog from Arabs in Aspic, Wobbler, Dim Gray, White Willow, Panzerpappa, Gazpacho, Pymlico, Oak, Airbag, Magic Pie, Motorpsycho, Leprous, and the Hedvig Mollestad Trio!

Get that horny feeling with Prog-Watch this week!! (No, not like that!) But tune in to hear lots of brassy sounds from the likes of Tony Banks, Happy the Man, Thank You Scientist, The Alan Parsons Project, Gentle Giant, Snarky Puppy, Genesis, Caravan, Midnight Oil, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Chicago, Yes, Edgar Winter, and Van Morrison!

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great new stuff from PROG Magazine artists Final Coil, Myrath, Pallbearer, Plantoid, and Lauri Porra, plus lots of other fabulous music from Glass Island, Meat Cafe Vol. 3, Fjieri, Cymbalic Encounters, Hasse Froberg and Musical Companion, Karl Eisenhart, The Forever Moment and Nagual!

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Age of Distraction, Sykofant, Matthew Cunningham, FM, and Airbag! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Cloudscapes & Silhouettes by the Norwegian band Mayfire!

This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features music by Nik Turner, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, and Rudy Adrian!   Playlist

This week I am paying tribute to the late, great Mike Pinder -- a man who not only shaped the sound of his own band (the Moody Blues) but also changed the course of rock music and helped define the sound of your favorite sub-genre, prog rock.

This week my special guests are Jamie Robertson, author of a book called Music Measures Memories, and the book's publisher, our friend and resident reviewer, Rob Fisher! (Bet you didn't know Rob was also a publisher!) The book deals with the importance of music in Jamie's life, it's ability to help us heal, and it's ability to intertwine with our memories. Jamie, Rob, and I chat about that, and some of the most meaningful songs in Jamie's life. We hope you will join us to hear some of "The Diaries of a Melomaniac" and lots of great prog rock and classic rock songs!

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about knowing, with tons of tasty tunes by Genesis, Robert Plant, Dave Mason, Fairport Convention, Asia, David Gilmour, Trevor Rabin, Yes, Steve Winwood, Marillion, Matthew Sweet, Kansas, Supertramp, Jon Anderson, Michael Penn, and The Allman Brothers!

My 101 Dimensions program for April includes music from Bergeton, Vinyl Dial, Antony Kalugin, Ashra, and Le Grande Sbam!

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Oliver Wakeman, Ozul, Transport Aerian, Karmamoi, Amarok, The Man From Ravcon, and Big Big Train! Also, there will be several artists who are featured in the April 2024 edition of PROG Magazine...Squeaky Feet, The Bardic Depths, Large Plants, Northodoxian, and The Beggs Sisters! I hope you will join me!

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Heath, Kavus Torabi, Isildur's Bane with Jinian Wilde, The Tangent, Michael Trew, Amarok, The Slow Light, The Dave Foster Band, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, Ozul, and Oliver Wakeman! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”

This week I am Shaking The Family Tree of one of the most influential Prog bands of all-time...Genesis! We will be hearing tracks by former members (and a few extended family members) who had solo careers or worked in other bands besides Genesis proper! Plus a couple by the band! Come see what shakes out!

Find more great contemporary progressive sounds on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmamoi, Nospun, The Man From Ravcon, and The Tangent! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Belgian duo Tempus Cucumis!

Tune in for nearly 2 hours of great progressive, ambient, and electronic music from Gary Numan, Klaus Schulze, Paul Ellis, Synergy, and Rudy Adrian!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and I'll try to spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Anekdoten, Kansas, Dec Burke, Ritual, and Focus!