Prog-Watch

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2022: 1. Peter Baumann – Strangers In The Night; Metro Man; King Of The Jungle; Be Mine; and Time Machine (from the album Strangers In The Night, 1983) 2. Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (extended mix); Radio Silence; Airwaves; Flying North; and Weightless (from the album The Golden Age Of Wireless, 1982) 3. Hawkwind – It's The Business...

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called School Days! With fabulous music by The Kinks, Argent, Comedy of Errors, Pete wnshend, Godley & Creme, Big Country, Gentle Giant, Stone Temple Pilots, Frank Zappa, Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Paul Simon, Jon & Vangelis, Jethro Tull, and Rush!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of Epix! But this time around I've done something a little different. The songs are all still 10 plus minutes in length, but this time there is more emphasis on the contemporary. Only one track comes from the 70s...the rest are from this century, with one from 2001, one from 2018, and two from this year. Tune in to hear great progressive sounds from Yes, T...

A plethora 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 Combinator, Evership, Grombira, The Bedlam Furnaces, Numen, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Samurai of Prog, Lucifer Was, Head Spin, Porcupine Tree, and Glass Island!

I sometimes listen to old shows to see how I've progressed. In listening to this first edition in my “Shaking the Tree” series, I really liked the content, but feel the sound quality leaves a little to be desired. So I decided to remaster it, and in many cases used tracks from remastered versions of the albums. Since I had time, I also included a bonus track at the end. Sonically, the program is f...

I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of the late Jon Lord! We'll hear great music from Deep Purple and his solo career, of course, as well as some of his other work with Tony Ashton, Whitesnake, and George Harrison!

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Bill Bruford, Nick Fletcher, Robert Berry's 3.2, The Prog Collective, Caravaggio, Andrew Ruoti, and Grombira! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by the Finnish band Poets of the Fall!

Join Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar and Big Tony on Prog-Watch this week for a look at some of the greatest keyboard virtuosos to ever grace our favorite genre! Guess who made the program, based on the episode's cover art! Even if you can guess them all, you won't want to miss this one! It's a belter!

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Dave Bainbridge! More chat with Dave, more great solo music, and more great music from his work with the Strawbs, Lifesigns, the Downes Braide Association, and Dave Fitzgerald!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, June 2022: 1. Gary Numan – Resurrection; Big Noise Transmission; Dead Sun Rising; When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come; and For The Rest of My Life (22:31) (from the album Dead Son Rising, 2011) 2. Klaus Schulze – Mindphaser (25:37) (from the album Moondawn, 1976) 3. Nik Turner – We Came In Peace; and Interstellar Clouds (20:21) (from the album Space Fusion...

This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Dave Bainbridge, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Iona, solo artist, and collaborator with many bands and artists including Lifesigns, the Strawbs, the Downes Briade Association, and Sally Minnear! Dave and I had a lot to talk about, so tune in to hear some of that chat, and lots of great music from his diverse career!

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff---new and old---for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous music from Green Asphalt, 3.2, and Ben Craven! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Andrew Dickey of Plainfield, Indiana, USA! Andrew has selected some fantastic stuff from Galahad, Lucifer Wa...

Wow have I got a lot of diverse, new progressive rock for you on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear great stuff from Greyfox Agenda, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Pymlico, The Bardic Depths, Lobate Scarp, Checking For Echo Project, Christopher Libertino, Kite Parade, Gordon Giltrap and Oliver Wakeman, Art Griffins Sound Chaser, Stuckfish, Godley and Creme, and Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate! Al...

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of mini modern symphonies will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Transatlantic, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Unitopia, Mystery, and Wobbler!

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, May 2022: 1. Nerissa Schwarz – Raised Like a Daughter; My Little Polymath; New Eyes For Laika; Europa Waiting; and Making Plans For Departure (21:56) (from the album New Eyes For Laika, 2022) 2. Klaus Schulze - L'affaire Tournesol (19:38) (from the Jubilee Edition box set, 1997) 3. Vangelis – Heaven and Hell (21:42) (from the album Heaven and Hell, 1975)...

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Lobate Scarp, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Time Dwellers, Spriggan Mist, and Better Strangers! 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 ESP Project!

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Manfred Mann! From his early days in the '60s pop band that bore his name, through the jazz explorations of Manfred Mann Chapter Three, to the more progressive sounds of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!

This week on Prog-Watch it's a new type of show—Discovering Progressive Virtuosos! In this series Dr. Rob Fisher and I will look at virtuosos on their chosen instruments and listen to some of their best work! This first edition will feature guitar virtuosos, and we're sure you can probably tell who we will be featuring, based on this episode's cover art!

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Luca Di Gennaro, Tiger Moth Tales, Checking For Echo Project, SomeWhereOut, Kaprekar's Constant, Twelfth Night, Yes, The Flower Kings, Christopher Libertino, Ben Craven, and The ESP Project! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”

101 Dimensions, April 2022: 1. Ott – 382 Seaside; Roflcopter; and A Shower of Sparks (23:06) (from the album Skylon, 2012) 2. Anne Dudley – Giant Below # Giant Above # Giant Within (22:51) (from the album Art of Silence Co UK, 1996) 3. Altamont – Altamont (17:49) (from the album Prayer for the Soul, 1983) 4. Ulrich Schnauss – The Weight of Darkening Skies; Borrowed Time; Ten Years; and A Ritual in...

Take your best shot this week with Prog-Watch! On this little themed special we'll hear from Utopia, Mansun, Anekdoten, Dennis DeYoung, UFO, Pineapple Thief, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Anthony Phillips, Kevin Ayers, Traffic, Saul Blease, Richard & Linda Thompson, Peter Hammill, and Fish! All in 90 minutes!

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luca Di Gennaro, Karmamoi, the Checking For Echo Project, Anton Johansson, and Kite Parade! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Thomas Thielen (AKA “t”)!

I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be exploring some of the vast Musical World of Robert Fripp! We'll hear great music from King Crimson and his solo career, of course, and from some of his collaborations with Brian Eno, Andy Summers, and David Sylvian. Plus, a few of Robert's interesting guest appearances!

Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Andrew Roussak, Tiger Moth Tales, Modern-Rock Ensemble, Karibow, Cosmograf, D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, and Tears For Fears! Plus, I will pay a little tribute to two great musicians who we lost recently...Ian McDonald and Gary Brooker.

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, March 2022: 1. The Orb – Earth Orbit One: Little Fluffy Clouds; Earth Orbit Two: Earth (Gaia); and Earth Orbit Three: Supernova at the End of the Universe (26:12) (from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, 1991) 2. John Carpenter – Distant Dream; White Pulse; Persia Rising; Angel's Asylum; and Hofner Dawn (19:24) (from the album Lost Them...