Prog-Watch

This week's Prog-Watch is a Variety program with a new feature...The Guest DJ! My first Guest DJ is a long time friend and supporter of the show, Mr. Thaddeus Wert of Nashville, Tennessee, USA! We'll be playing a number of Thaddeus's favorite Prog tunes and enjoying some of his personal commentary on those selections. With music from Phil Keaggy, Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta, Somewhere Out, Drifti...

This week on Prog-Watch my esteemed guest is Daniele Giovannoni, drummer, keyboardist, and main musical composer of the band Karmamoi! Daniele and I chat about the history of the band and their new concept album The Day Is Done. And of course I play plenty of great Karmamoi music along the way! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, c...

Start the New Year with some Prog Rock EPIX from the likes of Änglagård, The D Project, Rush, Dream Theater, and Pink Floyd! One mini rock symphony from each decade of our favorite musical genre! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Well, it's that time of year again...when Prog-Watch teams with The Progressive Aspect to bring you our end of year round-up of some of the best albums released in the Progressive genre this year! Seven of the fine reviewers from TPA provided short lists of their favorites, and brief reviews. Your humble host has also selected one of his own. With contributions from Mel Allen, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fi...

On this week's Prog-Watch I'll be playing fantastic prog rock music from Astral Bazaar, Anathema, Oscillazioni Alchemico Kreative (O.A.K.), Jussi Petäjä, Spriggan Mist, Daniel Eliseev Project, Roxy Music, All Traps on Earth, and The Tangent! Plus, a great feature on the new album by Canadian proggers mystery on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Ne...

On Prog-Watch this week my special guest is Oliver Rüsing of Karibow! Oliver and I have an interesting (and at times fun) conversation about the making of the spectacular new Karibow album, Monumento! Along the way I also play lots of great Karibow music, including a couple from the new one! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, cont...

This week on Prog-Watch I have another awesome variety program! With music from El Tubo Elastico, Riverside, Sunchild, Nosound, D'AccorD, & Gosta Berlings Saga! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher dishes on the great new album by Aussie proggers Southern Empire! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3...

This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of Traffic! Hear lots of great music from the band proper and the four original members, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood! Everything you hear will not be progressive rock in the strictest sense, but rest assured it will be fabulous classic rock from an influential and storied band, and the wildly talented individual members...

Viva variety! That's the spirit of this week's Prog-Watch which features a boatload of fabulous prog rock sounds! With music from IQ, We Could Build an Empire, The Pineapple Thief, Saul Blease, Oak, Tiger Moth Tales, Sunchild, Overhead, Pymlico, Psychoyogi, Vola, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, and Pinn Dropp!! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising...

This week on Prog-Watch my esteemed guest is Guy Manning of Manning, United Progressive Fraternity and Damanek! Guy and I chat about his various projects and the upcoming Damanek tour with Southern Empire! And of course there is plenty of great music to be heard along the way! Also: hear Tony clarify how Guy likes to pronounce "Damanek" and then revert to his own pronunciation for the rest of the...

This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Doug Rausch of the US band Rausch! Doug and I chat about his classical training, his influences, the Jordan Rudess connection, and much more! Along the way there will, of course, be plenty of great Rausch music! If you like your prog rock fresh and catchy, with brilliant keyboard playing and a dash of Queen thrown in, you will not want to miss this one!...

This week's Prog-Watch is full of stars! Every song will have the word "star" in the title! We'll hear music from artists ranging from Anekdoten to Yuka & Chronoship! Come along and try to guess what I'll be playing! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

This week's Prog-Watch is a great variety program made up of all music released this year! (Well, technically...two of the tracks are re-issues, but hey, they were re-issued this year!) We'll hear music from Blackfield, Gunship, Potter's Daughter, El tubo elastico, IQ, The National Orchestra of the United Kingdom of Goats, Sanguine Hum, Morgan and the Mountain, Phideaux and Napier's Bones! Plus Yu...

On this week's Prog-Watch my very special guest is the one and only Martin Barre of Jethro Tull fame! Martin and I talk Tull and his solo career, and along the way there is plenty of great music...a few Tull tunes on which Martin really shines, and lots of great music from his solo albums, including a few from his fabulous new album "Roads Less Travelled"! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime N...

This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Simon Godfrey of Tinyfish, Valdez & Shineback! Hear some of my chat with the always-entertaining Simon, plus music from all of his bands, including several from the new Shineback album "Dial"! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/adve...

This week on Prog-Watch it's another great variety show of mostly new Progressive sounds! Hear music from Phideaux, Ghost, Telegraph, Built For The Future, Marillion, mystery, Riverside, The Pineapple Thief, Stackridge, Skeptosphere & The Dame! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136...

This week I'm finishing up my coverage of the prolific keyboard maestro, Mr. Clive Nolan! There will be chat about his more recent endeavors, and plenty of great music from his collaboration with Oliver Wakeman, his theater-oriented project Caamora, and, of course, Arena! (In fact, there will be quite a bit of Arena, including a generous helping from the new album Double Vision!) If you missed the...

This week on Prog-Watch: a whole lot of great Progressive Rock variety! With music from Aisles, Paul Draper, Steve Hackett, Kaleidoreal, Glass Hammer, Octavarium, The Kentish Spires, and King's X! Plus, The Paradox Twin on Progressive Discoveries with Dr. Rob Fisher! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spr...

This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Robert Berry of 3 and 3.2! Robert talks candidly about the formation of the original 3 (with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer) in the late 1980s, how he and Emerson came to resurrect the idea of the band, and the ordeal he faced in finishing the album following Emerson’s tragic death in 2016. Along the way, there will be plenty of great music…from the origi...

US band Crack the Sky have a career that goes back more than 40 years, when their first self-titled album was chosen by Rolling Stone as the Debut Of The Year. Since then they have had their ups and downs, but in recent years the band has reunited many of the original and classic members and continue to make their own quirky and catchy brand of progressive rock music. I spoke to John Palumbo, foun...

Pure, wholesome variety is on tap for this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear fabulous new music from Argos, Circuline, Rausch, Jason Rubenstein, Gleb Kolyadin and Spock's Beard! Plus not quite so new (but equally fabulous) stuff from Argent, Cardiacs, Peter Matuchniak, Art Griffin's Sound Chaser, Isproject, Golden Earring & Michael Penn! So come on...it's certified 100% organic and soooo good for...

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! My usual criteria apply: an EPIC must be over 10 minutes long; and we will hear one for each major decade of our favorite genre! This time we'll hear music from The Flower Kings, Big Big Train, Southern Empire, Jethro Tull and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe! I hope you will join me for some wonderful, modern rock symphonies! This show is pa...

This week's program is a Variety show with lots of great new stuff from 3.2, The Sea Within, EvenFlow, Drifting Sun, and Strangefish! We'll also hear great (but not quite new) music from Agam, Heresy, and The Bedlam Furnaces, and our resident reviewer Dr. Rob Fisher will check in with a Progressive Discoveries feature on the latest album by the Italian band Victim Of Illusion! I hope you can come...

This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of one of my favorite bands of all time...Jethro Tull! So much great stuff shakes out, including music from Blodwyn Pig, Aviator, solo Ian Anderson, solo Martin Barre, and some real lost gems from the late Glenn Cornick's Wild Turkey! Come and see what shakes out! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertisi...

This week on Prog-Watch we're celebrating 40 years of Pendragon with the second of two Nick Barrett interview programs! Nick and I had an epic chat and you can hear some more of that PLUS a whole lot of great Pendragon music in this week's program! If you missed the first show (or just want to refresh your memory so you can get the full-on Nick and Pendragon experience) you can find it here:  http...