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This week's Prog-Watch is another fabulous variety program with mostly new(er) music! We'll hear from Wobbler, David Cross and David Jackson, Ben Craven, Spock's Beard, Stratospheerius and The Bedlam Furnaces! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher provides an insightful Progressive Discoveries segment on the new album 'La Muerta' from Subsignal!  This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interest...

The Beatles were kind of my “gateway” band. Before I discovered them, I liked music probably about as much as your average teenager. After I discovered them, I became what I suppose you would call a “music fanatic”. Their music resonated with me on many different levels and I was amazed at the transformational musical journey they had made in less than a decade. Once I had absorbed just about ever...

Time Of The Season by The Zombies is one of the first songs I can remember hearing as a child, and that strange beat and smooth, almost ethereal (over an AM radio!) vocal made a lasting impression. So it was with great pleasure that I was actually able to interview the owner of that voice, Mr. Colin Blunstone, a few weeks back! As an original British Invasion artist he had many recollections of th...

This week's Prog-Watch is one of our semi-annual collaborations with the fine reviewers of The Progressive Aspect to bring you some of the Best of 2018 (So Far)! Nine fantastic pieces from nine of the best albums released so far this year and short reviews of each! With contributions from Mel Allen, Tony Colvill, Rob Fisher, Bob Mulvey, Roger Trenwith, Leo Trimming, and John Wenlock-Smith!  This s...

This week on Prog-Watch it's the long-awaited return of THE DOCTOR, Rob Fisher, with another great edition of Progressive Discoveries! This edition centers on the exciting new album by Sharon den Adel's solo project My Indigo. Prepare for something a bit different! Also on this week's program: a lot of great Progressive Rock (this ain't Rap-Watch!) from Yuka & Chronoship, The Dame, Armonite, E...

Jerry Marotta is one of the most prolific drummers in the history of modern music. He  has played on literally hundreds of records and has worked with acts such as Orleans, Hall & Oates, The Indigo Girls, Stackridge, Marshall Crenshaw, The Dream Academy, Tears For Fears, Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, and many, many more. Of particular note to Progressive Rock music fans is his association wi...

Variety is the spice of life, so this week's Prog-Watch is a diverse collection of great progressive rock to enliven your world! We'll hear music from The Dear Hunter, ESP 2.0, Mostly Autumn, Onségen Ensemble, Robert Plant, Ange, Visual Cliff, Coast, 3RDegree, Kansas, Lines In The Sky, IQ, and Bomber Goggles! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on...

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part One of my coverage of keyboard wizard and composer Clive Nolan! Clive and I chat about his many projects and endeavors, and along the way I spin lots of great tracks from some of them, including Arena, Strangers On A Train, Casino, Shadowland, one of his collaborations with Oliver Wakeman, and of course some solo material!    This show is part of the Spreaker Prim...

This week's program is part variety show and part feature! On the variety side we will hear great (mostly newer) stuff from Perfect Beings, Kayak, Drifting Sun, and Skeptosphere! As for the feature: Aaron and Devin of The Aaron Clift Experiment drop by to talk about their brand new album If All Goes Wrong, and we check out three tracks from the album!  This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Netwo...

This week on Prog-Watch I am wrapping up my coverage of rock legend Ken Hensley! Ken and I chat about his PledgeMusic campaign and his new anthology, Rare and Timeless, and about what's coming up in his near future. I also spin plenty of music from his illustrious career...with Uriah Heep, Toe Fat, and Ken Hensley and Live Fire, his collaboration with John Wetton, and of course some solo stuff, in...

This week's Prog-Watch contains a colossal collection of contemporary and classic Progressive Rock for your careful consideration! Hear music from IO Earth, Coburg, Lazuli, Whiteside's Daughter, Elephant9, Axios, David Gilmour, Yuka & Chronoship, Motherjane, Gentle Giant, The Bridge, Anthony Phillips, and Projekt Gemineye! Come cherish the cheer!  This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Networ...

Guitar legend Mick Box has been rocking with Uriah Heep for approximately 50 years! This week he is my esteemed guest on Prog-Watch! Mick and I have a quick chat about the current Heep tour, their forthcoming album, and their PledgeMusic campaign, and along the way I spin lots of great Heep music, new and old!   This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising...

This week's Prog-Watch features an appreciable and astonishing amalgamation of Progressive Rock for your auditory amusement! Hear music from Tangekanic, Sweet, Kino, World Trade, Frequency Drift, Steve Hackett, Tears for Fears, Comedy Of Errors, Barclay James Harvest, Now In Colour, Art Griffin's Sound Chaser, Terry Draper, and Rausch! An amazing assortment, eh?   This show is part of the Spreaker...

Ken Hensley is a self-proclaimed survivor...a veteran of the mega rock star days of the 1970s, and a music business machine that would just as soon grind  up, spit out, and replace band members, rather than stop the money stream long enough for them to get help for addictions or other problems. In a career going back more than 50 years, his compositions and versatile musicianship put Uriah Heep on...

This week's Prog-Watch is another one of those mash-ups that I like to refer to as a variety show...just a bunch of great progressive rock, new and old, but with an emphasis on the new(er). We'll hear music from Yes, Neal Morse, Renaissance, Flying Colors, Karibow, Flutatious, Steven Wilson, Kino, Riverside & Vinegar Joe! Get out of your brain on the Prog-Watch 515!  This show is part of the S...

I love the Moody Blues, and I loved Ray Thomas. Late last year I had even resolved to attempt to contact him and interview him for this program. Sadly, that would never come to be as he left this world in early January of this year. So my idea to do a retrospective feature on a legendary man and his music became a tribute to a beloved figure, whom I was never lucky enough to meet, but feel like I...

This week I'm chatting with our old friend, Erik Norlander, mostly about his new project with John Payne called Dukes Of The Orient!  We get the low down on the Dukes and some of Erik's other endeavors, and along the way I spin plenty of great music, with an extra large helping of new Dukes Of The Orient music!  This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising...

This week's Prog-Watch is loaded with a plethora of great Progressive Rock for your listening pleasure! We'll hear from Mothertongue, Ryan Parmenter, Klaatu, Umphrey's McGee, Marco Ragni, the Strawbs, Zombie Picnic, It Bites, Pinn Dropp and StuckFish! We'll also be checking in with our friend Dr. Rob Fisher for another fantastic voyage of Progressive Discovery featuring music from Liquid Tension E...

This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is none other than Nick Barrett...founder, composer, guitarist and vocalist for the classic UK band Pendragon! The band is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, so Nick and I had plenty to talk about! With such a vast back catalog of great music from which to choose, I also had no problem selecting great tunes to spin along the way!    This show is...

Lords and Ladies of Adventure! Join me on this week's Prog-Watch for a look at the Legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as portrayed in Progressive Rock music! The program will, of course, draw a bit on Rick Wakeman's two albums dealing with the Arthurian Legend. But I've also found great tunes from Kayak, The Minstrel's Ghost, Finisterre, Erik Norlander, Galahad, and Children...

This week I've lined up a plethora of great progressive rock music from Unitopia, Murky Red, Karfagen, The J Conspiracy, Godsticks, Camel, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius, Radiohead, Forever Twelve, Motorpsycho, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Pinn Dropp! In the words of Yoda, “Miss it not!” This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, con...

This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is Michael Whiteman, bassist, singer, and composer from I Am The Manic Whale! Michael and I chat about all sorts of things, from the origins of the band to the future of “progressive rock”. Along the way I will, of course, spin lots of great music from Michael and the rest of his pod-mates in I Am The Manic Whale! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Net...

For this week's Prog-Watch I've put together a variety show with a little tribute to the late Colin Tench. We'll hear a new one from the Colin Tench Project, and two from a couple of his other projects, BunChakeze and Corvus Stone. I'll also be spinning lots of great stuff from The Fierce & The Dead, Fractal Mirror, Bram Stoker, Jethro Tull, Steven Wilson, Downes-Braide Association, Rush, Spir...

This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the family tree of a favorite band from my youth...The Alan Parsons Project! We'll be playing some classics from the band, exploring some offshoots and forerunners, and sampling the solo work of some of the core vocalists and musicians who made up the collective. We'll hear from the Project proper, as well as Keats, Pilot, Dave Paton, Colin Blunstone, Lenny Zaka...

This week on Prog-Watch we have a very special edition of Progressive Discoveries, hosted by Dr. Rob Fisher himself! Rob will be talking about the new Lunatic Soul album “Fractured” and how it relates to us all as we struggle to get over losses in our lives. Before and after this special feature, I've got a variety of great new stuff from Wobbler, Looking-Glass Lantern, Karfagen, ZEH, Gleb Kolyadi...