Anthony Rowsick

Prog-Watch

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Prog-Watch is a podcast and internet radio program dedicated to bringing the listener contemporary Progressive Rock music, album reviews, and artist interviews and features from around the world!

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Anthony Rowsick

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Music

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 905 - In Conversation with Dec Burke, Pt. 2 01.02.2022

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Dec Burke! More of our chat and more great music from his solo career, as well as AudioPlastik, Dilemma, Frost*, and Darwin's Radio! Plus, a little bit of interesting news! Tune in to hear it!

Episode 904 - In Conversation with Dec Burke, Pt. 1 25.01.2022

This week on Prog-Watch I start a great two-part feature on my very special guest, Dec Burke, solo artist and past member of Frost*, AudioPlastik, Dilemma, and Darwin's Radio! Tune in to hear some of our chat and lots of great music from all across his career!

Episode 903 - Explorations, Vol. 2 - Neo-Prog 18.01.2022

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Neo-Progressive Rock, or Neo-Prog, for short! In this program we'll explore the Neo-Prog sub-genre through great music from Marillion, IQ, Galahad, Pendragon, Arena, Magenta, Comedy of Errors, Collage, Sylvan, and the Barock Project!

Episode 902 - Prog-Watch & TPA Best of 2021, Part 2 11.01.2022

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2021! More great TPA commentary on music from A Formal Horse, 3.2, Trettioariga Kriget, The Holy Family, The Paradox Twin, Steven Wilson, Three Colours Dark, This Winter Machine, Drifting Sun, and Mostly Autumn!

101 Dimensions - January 2022 05.01.2022

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, January 2022: 1. Keith Emerson – And Then January; Pictures at an Exhibition; and Abaddon's Bolero Orchestral (18:58) (from the album Off the Shelf, 2006) 2. Richard Barbieri – Nevada; Fear and Trembling; and Light on Glass (17:22) (from the album Things Buried, 2004) 3. Jon Lord – Window: 1st Movement – Renga; 2nd Movement – Gemini; and 3rd Movement – Al...

Episode 901 - Prog-Watch & TPA Best of 2021, Part 1 04.01.2022

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 2021! We'll hear music from Raven Sad, Sylvan, Lifesigns, Cyan, The Emerald Dawn, Octarine Sky, and Big Big Train! With brief reviews by our TPA contributors, Tony Colvill, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, Magnu...

Prog-Watch Christmas Special 2021 21.12.2021

This week I've got a new Prog-Watch Christmas special which I hope will help get you into the spirit of the Season! Lot's of great stuff and no talking (well, aside from the preamble...) 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

Episode 850 - Variety 14.12.2021

This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of fabulous stuff for your listening enjoyment! I've got great music from Porcupine Tree, Kosmodome, Octarine Sky, Al Stewart, Viriditas, Marillion, Burntfield, PsychoYogi, Billy Joel, Ross Jennings, and Transport Aerian!

101 Dimensions - December 2021 08.12.2021

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, December 2021: 1. Ott – 16mm Summer Day; Coursing Batch; and Harwell Dekatron (23:24) (from the album Fairchildren (2015) 2. Vangelis Mouettes; Chromatique; Irlande; and Flamants Roses (22:29) (from the album Opera Sauvage, 1979) 3. Röyksopp – Silver Cruiser; True To Life; It's What I Want; and Across The Graveyard (17:56) (from the album Junior, 2009) 4....

Episode 849 - Kings and Queens 07.12.2021

Get your "Royal Highness" on with Prog-Watch this week, with our theme of Kings and Queens! Tune in to hear lots of regal refrains from The Moody Blues, Jump, Richard Thompson, The Nice, Jethro Tull, Oliver Wakeman and Steve Howe, Bankstatement, Arena, Camel, Al Stewart, The Strawbs, Pendragon, Tony Lowe and Alison Fleming, Ken Hensley, ELO, and Renaissance!

Episode 848 - Variety + Three Colours Dark on Progressive Discoveries 30.11.2021

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Moron Police, Glacier, Jethro Tull, A Secret River, and Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Three Colours Dark!

Episode 847 - Classix, Vol. 3 23.11.2021

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of Prog Rock classic tracks! I'll be spinning tunes from Steve Hackett, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Spring, Abel Ganz, Badfinger, Marillion, Rick Wakeman, The Alan Parsons Project, Fantasy, 10CC, Kestrel, Ryo Okumoto, and It Bites!

Episode 846 - Variety 16.11.2021

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock! I've got fantastic stuff from Leslie Hunt, Fantasy, This Winter Machine, Hangar Nord, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Kosmodome, Cyan, Yes, Red Sand, and Glass Hammer! I hope you will join me!

101 Dimensions - November 2021 10.11.2021

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2021: 1. Vangelis – Atlas's Push; Inside Our Perspectives; Out In Space; Juno's Quiet Determination; and Jupiter's Intuition (20:43) (from the album Juno To Jupiter, 2021) 2. Public Service Broadcasting – Lichtspiel I – Opus; Lichtspiel II – Schwarz Weiss Grau; Lichtspiel III – Symphonie Diagonale; and Ich Und Die Stadt (17:39) (from the album Br...

Episode 845 - Shaking the Family Tree of Spock’s Beard 09.11.2021

I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic US band Spock's Beard! We'll hear from the band proper, and many of the major members, past and present! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Spock's Beard Family Tree!

Episode 844 - Variety + Michal Lapaj on Progressive Discoveries 02.11.2021

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Fractal Mirror, Alex Pilkevych, Alcantara, Krokofant, Tom Slatter, Choclat Frog, Pentesilea Road, and Premiata Forneria Marconi! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of Riverside kyeboardist Michal Lapaj!

Episode 843 - Welcome To My Nightmare 26.10.2021

As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about nightmares and the macabre! With songs concerning things spooky or supernatural from Alice Cooper, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull! Join me...if you dare!

Episode 842 - In Conversation with Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning 19.10.2021

On this week's Prog-Watch my special guest is the charming Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning! Tune in to hear some of our chat, as well as lots of great iamthemorning music, and music from her solo career, including a few from her new EP Disillusioned!

101 Dimensions October 2021 13.10.2021

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick - October 2021: 1. Ulrich Schnauss – Melts Into Air; Love Grows Out Of Thin Air; The Magic In You; and Thoughtless Motion (23:03) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019) 2. Spacelords – Spaceflowers; and Frau Kuhnkes Kosmos (25:18) (from the album Spaceflowers, 2020) 3. Jansen Barbieri Karn – The Shallow Pool; To The Core; Sacrifi...

Episode 841 - ALL NEW Variety 12.10.2021

Get ready for another ALL NEW variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock on this week's Prog-Watch! I've got fantastic stuff from The Watch, Cyan, Aisles, Dec Burke, EmT, Three Colours Dark, Shumaun, Ray Wilson, The Paradox Twin, and Hangar Nord! I hope you will join me!

Episode 840 - Brave New World 05.10.2021

Come take a ride with me on this week's Prog-Watch and we'll drive into a Brave New World! (Well every song will be about some world, anyway...the new world, half the world, the real world, a fantasy world, etc.) Soundtrack provided by Michael Penn, The Moody Blues, Big Big Train, Rush, Conspiracy, The Alan Parsons Project, The Strawbs, Kansas, The Electric Light Orchestra, Black Bonzo, David Bowi...

Episode 839 - Our Progressive Planet - Germany 28.09.2021

On Prog-Watch this week it's another installment of OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET in which Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of the vibrant progressive music scene in Germany! With music from Sylvan, Lucifer's Friend, Subsignal, Panzerballett, Eloy, RPWL, Frequency Drift, Vanden Plas, Seven Steps To The Green Door, and Schmid and Arnold! We hope you will join us!

Episode 838 - Variety with a Guest DJ Feature 21.09.2021

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 Yes, Big Big Train, Smalltape, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Gentle Giant, and Texel! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Jean-Marc Bonard of Lausanne, Switzerland! Jean-Marc has selected...

101 Dimensions - September 2021 15.09.2021

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, September 2021: 1. Geoff Downes' New Dance Orchestra – Shine On; Forgiven; Movin' On; Rainbow's End; and Breaking the Spell (21:14) (from the album Electronica, 2010) 2. Edgar Froese – Stuntman; It Would Be Like Samoa; and Detroit Snackbar Dreamer (21:37) (from the album Stuntman, 1979) 3. Vangelis – Suffocation; and See You Later (19:48) (from the album...

Episode 837 - ALL NEW Variety 14.09.2021

This week on Prog-Watch it's another ALL NEW variety program full of fabulous, contemporary progressive rock! I've got great new stuff from Drifting Sun, Kyros, Ray Wilson, John Wetton, Big Big Train, Tony Kaye, Smalltape, Styx, Shumaun, Dec Burke, Lee Abraham, and Texel!

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