Prog-Watch

I'm pretty sure that no one was unhappy to see 2020 in the rear view, but it was a pretty fine year for music! So this week on Prog-Watch I am once more featuring some of the best of 2020, with a line-up that includes The Flower Kings, Blue Oyster Cult, The Tangent, Lonely Robot, Pendragon, Neal Morse, Nick D'Virgilio, Pattern-Seeking Animals, and Fish!

This week's Prog-Watch is all about humankind's favored pets...cats and dogs! Tune in to hear lots of great progressive sounds from The Rocket Scientists, The Flower Kings, Rush, Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Mike Rutherford, Gentle Giant, The Alan Parsons Project, Stick Men, and more!

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 2020! We'll hear music from Magenta, Pendragon, Mark Vickness, Chris Opperman, Motorpsycho, Abel Ganz, and Fish; and brief reviews by Magnus Moar, Bob Mulvey, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!

The first 101 Dimensions of the New Year, and here's what I cooked up for our listening pleasure: 1. Mike Oldfield – Sentinel; Dark Star; Clear Light; Blue Saloon; and Sunjammer (21:55) (from the album Tubular Bells II, 1992) 2. Focus – Hamburger Concerto (20:20) (from the album Hamburger Concerto, 1974) 3. Wendy Carlos – Winter (20:37) (from the album Sonic Seasonings, 1972) 4. Red Shift – Tormen...

This week on Prog-Watch I have Part One of a two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2020! We'll hear music from Blue Oyster Cult, Wobbler, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Elder, Three Colours Dark, Kansas, Pull Down The Sun, and Haken; and brief reviews by Mel Allen, Anthony Colvill, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fisher, Andrew Halley and Nick Hudson! (Part Two to f...

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Hyco, The Weever Sands, Jump, Great Wide Nothing, Violent Silence and Antony Kalugin! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Tony Lowe's ESP Project! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you...

New feature on Prog-Watch this week...OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET! On this type of program Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of a particular country with a vibrant progressive music scene! This first edition focuses on Poland, and will feature music from Collage, SBB, Lebowski, Riverside, Indukti, Lizard, Osada Vida, Acute Mind, Quidam, Votum, and Satellite, with a bonus track from Fr...

Another month has come and gone so I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions once again! I've got another interesting set this time, so I hope you will come along for the ride! Here's what's in store: 1. Bergeton – Arabian Nights; Depeche Load; Fort Apache Marina; Lambo; and Miami Murder (20:11) (from the album Miami Murder, 2020) 2. Vinyl Dial – Bad Trip (23:08) (from the album Space Wizard, 2019) 3...

Tons of tasty tunes abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Jakko Jakszyk, Anèma, Jim Griffin, Antony Kalugin, Laura Piazzai, IT, Gandalf's Fist, Potter's Daughter, Circu5, Logos, Dyble/Longdon, and Tiger Moth Tales! 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/sho...

On this week's Prog-Watch I'm paying tribute to the late Ken Hensley, with excerpts of my 2018 interview with the man himself and lots of great music from Uriah Heep, his solo career, and side projects. I hope you will join me in remembering this talented musician, brilliant song-writer, and overall genuine person. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertisi...

I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is one of Sweden's greatest musical exports, the mighty Flower Kings! We'll hear from the band proper, The Tangent, Tomas Bodin, Roine Stolt, Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion, Kaipa, The Sea Within, Karmakanic, and Agents of Mercy! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Flower Kin...

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Days Between Stations, Kansas, Druid, Wobbler, Mesmerising, Vinyl Dial, Kepler Ten, Kaleidoreal, and Harmonium! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!” 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/s...

It's my turn on 101 Dimensions once again, and I've lined up some different stuff this time! Here's what's in store: 1. Vinyl Dial – Oceanic Electron Harvest (20:50) (from the album Oceanic Electron Harvest, 2020) 2. David Arkenstone – Fairy Tales; Hope Springs; Midsommar Stars; Of Mischief and Magic; Oberon Sleeps (20:53) (from the album Fairy Tales, 2020) 3. Yak – Vale Of Aeternum (19:25) (from...

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 new music from Glass Hammer, Silver Nightmares, Neptune, The Wood Demons, Sanguine Hum, Cirkus, and Yobrepus! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Michael Keane of Liverpool, England! Michael ha...

This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of ALL NEW material! I've got fantastic stuff from The Flower Kings, Pymlico, Wobbler, Taskaha, Isobar, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Sanguine Hum, Tony Lowe's ESP Project, Cirkus, Watertank, and Steve Hackett! I hope you will join me! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at h...

This week's Prog-Watch is all about ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT! With songs concerning things supernatural from White Willow, The Strawbs, Blue Oyster Cult, Asia, Uriah Heep, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Agents Of Mercy, Ken Hensley, The Syn, Styx, Jethro Tull, Rush, The Rocket Scientists, Drifting Sun, Todd Rundgren, Warren Zevon, and Anekdoten...

This week on Prog-Watch our reviewer extraordinaire Dr. Rob Fisher returns with a new Progressive Discoveries feature on the fabulous debut album 'The Science of Goodbye' by the UK project Three Colours Dark! For my part, I'll be spinning great stuff from Gandalf's Fist, YYNOT, Briand Boursin Rohr, Neptune, Wytch Hazel, Kevin Godley, Caravaggio, Sudler's Row, and The Wood Demons! I hope you will j...

I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions and have an interesting program lined up for our listening enjoyment. Here's the itinerary: 1. Hawkwind – Seeing It As You Really Are; and Mirror Of Illusion (17:56) (from the album Hawkwind, 1970) 2. Garrett N. – Reprise/Bak3/Unknown; Scorpio/Ramos; Sinister; and Avant4/Outtro/Epilogue (23:32) (from the album Let's Get Surreal, 2018) 3. Ashra – 77 Slightly D...

This week on Prog-Watch I'm taking a look at the rich and diverse Musical World of Rick Wakeman! Of course we'll hear music from his time with The Strawbs, Yes, and Anderson Bruford, Wakeman & Howe, and from his most recent foray into the world of Yes music with Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin! I'll also be exploring some of his collaborations with son Adam and Mr. Anderson, and some of his earl...

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature! I'll be spinning music from Kansas, O.A.K. (Oscillazioni Alchemico Kreative), Dyble-Longdon, The Hawkwind Light Orchestra, The Broken Bridges, and Tony Lowe's ESP Project, and mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Keith McCarthy of Newnham, England! Keith has selected some fabulous stuff from Fleetwood Mac, John Martyn, Ana...

Come and do a little Moonlighting with Prog-Watch this week, where every song will have the word “Moon” in the title! With music from a wide assortment of artists, including Genesis, City Boy, Tom Slatter, Sky Cries Mary, Conspiracy, Thin Lizzy, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Flame Dream, Lana Lane, The Electric Light Orchestra, White Willow, The Nice, The Alan Parson Project, Seven Steps To The Gree...

This week on Prog-Watch it's another variety program full of mostly new material! (Hey, at least we got a lot of good music this year!) I've got great stuff from Circuline, Automatism, The Mighty Handful, Keith and the Tiger Moth, Bob Beland, Whiteside's Daughter, Okyr, Taskaha, Michele Conta, Grus Paridae, and Watertank! I hope you will join me! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if...

I'm back at the helm of 101 Dimensions this weekend and here's what I have lined up for our listening pleasure: 1. Aphex Twin – Phlange Phace; Dodeccaheedron; Analogue Bubblebath 1; and Metapharstic (20:51) (from the album Classics, 1995) 2. Oliver Wakeman with Steve Howe – Ages of Magick; Mind Over Matter; The Forgotten King; The Storyteller; and The Whales Last Dance (21:14) (from the album The...

This week on Prog-Watch I'm shaking the Family Tree of the mighty Marillion! I'll be exploring some of the solo works and side projects of Fish, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Ian Mosley, and Mick Pointer! Come along for a fun and interesting ride! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://...

This week on Prog-Watch Dr. Rob Fisher returns with a new Progressive Discoveries feature on the latest album 'Song For The Homeless, Live in Russelheim, 2019' by the fabelhaft German band Subsignal! In addition, I've got great stuff from Kevin Godley, Glass Hammer, Wytch Hazel, YYNOT, Circuline, O.A.K., Turdetans, and IQ! I hope you will join us! This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, i...