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Prog-Watch is a weekly podcast dedicated to bringing the listener contemporary Progressive Rock music and artist interviews from around the world.

Anthony Rowsick


    • May 27, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 31m AVG DURATION
    • 662 EPISODES


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    Prog-Watch 1212 - Life Is A Long Song

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 89:53


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1211 - Variety + Djabe & Steve Hackett on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 87:03


    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!  

    101 Dimensions - Late April 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 116:38


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1210 - Variety

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 88:23


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1209 - Variety + Lyrella on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 88:10


    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!  

    101 Dimensions - March 2025-2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 112:30


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1108 - Epix, Vol. 14

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 86:22


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1207 - Variety

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2025 89:53


    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!

    101 Dimensions - March 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 112:14


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1206 - All or Nothing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 93:01


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1205 - Variety + Nicola Lori on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 88:39


    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!  

    101 Dimensions - February 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025 114:45


    Prog-Watch 1204 - Cover 2 Cover (Remastered)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 89:46


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1203 - Variety + Fleesh on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025 90:52


    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!  

    101 Dimensions - January 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 118:29


    Prog-Watch 1202 - Prog-Watch and TPA Present Some of the Best of 2024, Pt. 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 87:15


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1201 - Prog-Watch and TPA Present Some of the Best of 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 83:15


    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!  

    The 1st Prog-Watch Christmas Special (Remastered)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 86:31


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1138 - Variety with a Guest DJ Feature

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 83:14


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1137 - Our Progressive Planet - Japan

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 96:56


    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!  

    Prog-Watch 1136 - Variety + Long Earth on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 88:30


    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!  

    101 Dimensions - November 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 106:00


    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.  

    Prog-Watch 1135 - A Tribute to Keith Emerson (Remastered)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 110:12


    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.  

    Prog-Watch 1134 - Variety + the ESP Project on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 88:39


    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!  

    101 Dimensions - October 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 106:16


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

    Prog-Watch 1133 - Count On It (or Wonder What Time It Is)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 90:19


    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"!

    Prog-Watch 1132 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 87:52


    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!

    101 Dimensions - September 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 104:02


    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!    

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    Prog-Watch 1131 - An Ian Anderson Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 108:22


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1130 - Variety + Sloane Square Band on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 84:24


    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!

    101 Dimensions - August 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2024 102:45


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

    Prog-Watch 1129 - Whatnot from the 1980s

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2024 83:00


    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

    Prog-Watch 1128 - Variety + Andy Nixon on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 88:22


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1127 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 87:54


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1126 - Variety

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 87:17


    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.

    101 Dimensions - June 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 102:59


    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! 

    Prog-Watch 1125 - Our Progressive Planet - Norway

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 93:50


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1124 - Feeling Horny

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 86:06


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1123 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2024 87:59


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1122 - Variety + Mayfire on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 87:52


    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!

    101 Dimensions - May 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 104:35


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

    Prog-Watch 1121 - A Tribute to Mike Pinder

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2024 85:12


    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.

    Prog-Watch 1120 - Music Measures Memories

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2024 110:31


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1119 - I Know What I Like...

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2024 89:31


    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!

    101 Dimensions - April 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2024 111:29


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

    Prog-Watch 1118 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 86:52


    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!

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    Prog-Watch 1117 - Variety

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 88:44


    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!”

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    Prog-Watch 1116 - Shaking the Genesis Family Tree

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 88:42


    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!

    Prog-Watch 1115 - Variety + Tempus Cucumis on Progressive Discoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 92:04


    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!

    101 Dimensions - March 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 102:12


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

    Prog-Watch 1114 - Epix, Vol. 13

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 87:24


    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!

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