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This week: Part Two of my collaboration with the Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2022! With great music from Marillion, Ryo Okumoto, Jethro Tull, David Longdon, Stuckfish, Porcupine Tree, the ESP Project, Lobate Scarp, and Tiger Moth Tales! And thanks to all the contributors from this week and last: Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Magnus Moar, Rick...

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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 2022! This year's contributors include Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith,...

Happy Holidays from the Prog-Watch team (Tony and Rob)! Click here for Playlist 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

More astounding new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Evership, Glass Hammer, Arc of Life, Threshold, The Bedlam Furnaces, Sudler's Row, and Glass Island! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of a great new band called Alta Forma!

Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, progressive music from Royksopp, Tangerine Dream, Jansen Barbieri Takemura, The Fragile Fate, and Brian Eno! 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

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear lots of great new stuff from Gandalf's Fist, Ologram, Galahad, The Aaron Clift Experiment, Royal Hunt, Solstice, Babal, The Gardening Club, Tribe of Names, Silver Nightmares, and Magenta!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Eclectic Prog! In this program we'll explore the Eclectic sub-genre through great music from King Crimson, SBB, Steve Hackett, Beardfish, Gentle Giant, A.C.T, The Tangent, Van der Graaf Generator, Utopia, Birds and Buildings, and Motorpsycho!

In honor of American Thanksgiving (and all Thanksgiving or harvest festivals around the world) this week's theme is Thanks! With a cornucopia of great music from Abel Ganz, Fantasy, Agents of Mercy, Andrew Gold, Led Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, Paul McCartney, Barclay James Harvest, Francis Dunnery, Mostly Autumn, Solstice, Steven Wilson, John Wesley, Wigwam, Catapilla, and ZZ Top!

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of classics from the halcyon days of the 1970s! With music from Armageddon, Happy the Man, Led Zeppelin, Crack the Sky, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, The Alan Parsons Project, Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and David Bowie!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2022: 1. Alberto Rigoni featuring Marco Minnemann – Evorevolution (from the album EvoRevolution, 2018) 2. Tangerine Dream – Sensing Elements; and Non-Locality Destination (from the album Quantum Gate + Quantum Key, 2018) 3. The Fragile Fate (featuring Rupert Greenall, Jerry Marotta, and Eric Taylor) – Water Field; Float; Sign Waves; Lilliam Ocean...

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Tribe of Names, Silver Nightmares, John Holden, The Blackheart Orchestra, Glass Island, Time's Forgotten, Adventure, and Evership! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the US duo Imaginary Kings!

This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great stuff from The Steve Bonino Project, Galahad, Dave Kerzner, Babal, The Gardening Club, Gandalf's Fist, Lonely Robot, Todd Rundgren (with Thomas Dolby), Time Horizon, UV Traveler, Glass Island, and Red Bazar!

As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about monsters, both inhuman and human! With great music from David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Kyros, Camel, Blue Oyster Cult, Warren Zevon, Alice Cooper, Shineback, Ozzy Osbourne, Talking Heads, Greg Bissonette, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Edgar Winter Group, Dave Edmunds, and Bobby 'Boris' Pickett! Join me for a fun and...

This week I've got a variety program with a Guest DJ feature! Our guest DJ this time around is Mr. Andy Black of the UK, who has suggested some great stuff by Brand X, Focus, Rush, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Genesis and Gerry Rafferty! And I'll be mixing in some great contemporary music from Todd Rundgren, Galahad, The Blackheart Orchestra, Arthur Brown, Down River Dead Men Go, and David Longdon!

Nearly 90 minutes of great electronic/ambient/progressive sounds from Church of Hed, Redshift, Wolfgang Bock, Erki Norlander and Malcolm Galloway! 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

I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic US band Kansas! We'll hear from the band proper and the spin-off, Proto-Kaw, and lots of great stuff from former members, Kerry Livgren, Steve Morse, Robby Steinhardt, and Steve Walsh!

More astounding, new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear great music from Ryo Okumoto, Evership, Nemo, Dave Kerzner, Kalin Tonev, and Cosmograf! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Norway's Pymlico!

Another oldie that I thought deserved a remaster! Anyway, on this program I’m shaking the family tree of the legendary band, the Moody Blues! We’ll hear lots of great stuff from the Moodies, Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge and more! See what shakes out!

Visit fantastical realms with Prog-Watch this week, where our theme is indeed fantasy! Tune in to hear lots of great sounds from Aldo Nova, The Tangent, Billy Joel, Introitus, The Kinks, Traffic, Patrick Moraz, Black Bonzo, Trevor Rabin, Mike Pinder, Paul Sutin & Steve Howe, Uriah Heep, Triumph, Mediaeval Baebes, and Steve Hackett!

Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, and progressive music from Kraftwerk, Synergy, Hawkwind, Mike Oldfield, and Fripp & Eno! See http://progwatch.com/101-dimensions-electronic-music/ for more details. 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 variety show with a Guest DJ Feature! Our Guest DJ is Brody Peddle of Canada, who has suggested some great stuff from UK, Anekdoten, Nektar, Broken Social Scene, Gosta Berlings Saga, Knifeworld, and Igorrr! For my part I will be mixing in new music from Sudler's Row, John Beagley, Fearful Symmetry, Moon Letters, The Mighty Handful, and Red Bazar! Tune in to hear a real...

Lots of fantastic stuff has come across my digital desktop lately, so this week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of awesome, mostly contemporary progressive rock! I've got great music from Big Big Train, John Holden, the Intelligent Music Project, Geoff Downes, Cosmograf, Dave Kerzner, Moon Letters, Ryo Okumoto, Armageddon, Fearful Symmetry, and Paul Simon! I hope you will join m...

Another oldie but goodie that I thought could use a little remaster: The Psychedelic Special! A special feature on a very fascinating time in the history of music. More specifically, the Psychedelic period in the mid-to-late 1960s. This was a very creative and fertile time in which established bands such as the Beatles, the Who, the Moody Blues, and Cream figured prominently. It also saw the arriv...

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Progressive Folk! In this program we'll explore the Prog Folk sub-genre through great music from Fairport Convention, Comus, Spirogyra, Jethro Tull, Magna Carta, Jan Dukes de Grey, The Strawbs, Harmonium, Steeleye Span, and Clannad!