Prog-Watch

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the June edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic new stuff from the Barock Project, John Holden, the Legacy Pilots, Hats Off Gentlemen, Nektar, Marjana Semkina, Airbag, and The Slow Light! And from PROG: Teiger, Last Plane Out, Oudeziel, and Candacraig! I hope you...

There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Hasse Fröberg and Musical Companion, John Holden, the Barock Project, The Raging Project, Karfagen, Marjana Semkina, Age of Distraction, and Flame Dream! Plus, a little tribute to the late Richard Tandy of ELO.

My 101 Dimensions program for June includes great electronic, ambient, progressive music by Klaus Schulze, Dark Sky Alliance, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren! 

Join Rob Fisher and Yours Truly this week for a little guided tour of the vibrant progressive rock scene in Norway! With fabulous Nordic prog from Arabs in Aspic, Wobbler, Dim Gray, White Willow, Panzerpappa, Gazpacho, Pymlico, Oak, Airbag, Magic Pie, Motorpsycho, Leprous, and the Hedvig Mollestad Trio!

Get that horny feeling with Prog-Watch this week!! (No, not like that!) But tune in to hear lots of brassy sounds from the likes of Tony Banks, Happy the Man, Thank You Scientist, The Alan Parsons Project, Gentle Giant, Snarky Puppy, Genesis, Caravan, Midnight Oil, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Chicago, Yes, Edgar Winter, and Van Morrison!

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great new stuff from PROG Magazine artists Final Coil, Myrath, Pallbearer, Plantoid, and Lauri Porra, plus lots of other fabulous music from Glass Island, Meat Cafe Vol. 3, Fjieri, Cymbalic Encounters, Hasse Froberg and Musical Companion, Karl Eisenhart,...

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Age of Distraction, Sykofant, Matthew Cunningham, FM, and Airbag! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Cloudscapes & Silhouettes by the Norwegian band Mayfire!

This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features music by Nik Turner, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, and Rudy Adrian!   Playlist

This week I am paying tribute to the late, great Mike Pinder -- a man who not only shaped the sound of his own band (the Moody Blues) but also changed the course of rock music and helped define the sound of your favorite sub-genre, prog rock.

This week my special guests are Jamie Robertson, author of a book called Music Measures Memories, and the book's publisher, our friend and resident reviewer, Rob Fisher! (Bet you didn't know Rob was also a publisher!) The book deals with the importance of music in Jamie's life, it's ability to help us heal, and it's ability to intertwine with our memories. Jamie, Rob, and I chat about that, and so...

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about knowing, with tons of tasty tunes by Genesis, Robert Plant, Dave Mason, Fairport Convention, Asia, David Gilmour, Trevor Rabin, Yes, Steve Winwood, Marillion, Matthew Sweet, Kansas, Supertramp, Jon Anderson, Michael Penn, and The Allman Brothers!

My 101 Dimensions program for April includes music from Bergeton, Vinyl Dial, Antony Kalugin, Ashra, and Le Grande Sbam!

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Oliver Wakeman, Ozul, Transport Aerian, Karmamoi, Amarok, The Man From Ravcon, and Big Big Train! Also, there will be several artists who are featured in the April 2024 edition of PROG Magazine...Squea...

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Heath, Kavus Torabi, Isildur's Bane with Jinian Wilde, The Tangent, Michael Trew, Amarok, The Slow Light, The Dave Foster Band, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, Ozul, and Oliver Wakeman! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”

This week I am Shaking The Family Tree of one of the most influential Prog bands of all-time...Genesis! We will be hearing tracks by former members (and a few extended family members) who had solo careers or worked in other bands besides Genesis proper! Plus a couple by the band! Come see what shakes out!

Find more great contemporary progressive sounds on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmamoi, Nospun, The Man From Ravcon, and The Tangent! 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 Belgian duo Tempus Cucumis!

Tune in for nearly 2 hours of great progressive, ambient, and electronic music from Gary Numan, Klaus Schulze, Paul Ellis, Synergy, and Rudy Adrian!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and I'll try to spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Anekdoten, Kansas, Dec Burke, Ritual, and Focus!

This week I've got a plethora of present-day Prog from Luz de Riada, A Secret River, Isildur's Bane, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Big Big Train, and Karfagen! Plus four bands featured in this month's PROG Magazine: Nospun, Aviations, Psychework, and Harp!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Crossover Prog! In this program we'll explore the crossover sub-genre through great music from The Tea Party, Kevin Gilbert, Supertramp, Peter Gabriel, Phideaux Xavier, Radiohead, Ritual, Lunatic Soul, The Dear Hunter, Dave Bainbridge, Gazpacho, Steven Wilson, and Big Big Train!   Please note that I accidenta...

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luz de Riada, Karfagen, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Shadows on Mercury, and Big Big Train! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by Imperial Measures!

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Steve Winwood! From his early days in the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith, through to his chart topping solo years in the 1980s, Steve has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!

This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features ambient/electronic/progressive music from Klaus Schulze, Coil, Brian Eno, and Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo!

Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Venus Loon, The Samurai of Prog, Trevor Rabin, Richard Wileman, A Secret River, Juame Vilaseca, Yobrepus, and Jef Bek! As if that was not enough, we'll also hear music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Temic, Hands of the Heron, and Petra Hermanova!

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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Alan Parson Project, Pink Floyd, Spring, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, Genesis, England, 10CC, Nektar, Renaissance, and Kaipa!   Want more classics? Search "Classix" at the homepage of Progwatch.com!