Prog-Watch

Prog-Watch

Prog-Watch is a weekly 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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May 13, 2024 110 mins

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 some of the most meaningful songs in ...

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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!

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May 2, 2024 111 mins

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

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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...Squeaky Feet, The Bardic Depths, Large P...

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April 22, 2024 88 mins

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!”

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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!

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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!

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April 3, 2024 102 mins

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

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April 1, 2024 87 mins

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!

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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!

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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 accidentally announced this show as Explorat...

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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!

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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!

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February 27, 2024 101 mins

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!

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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!

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February 19, 2024 88 mins

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!

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February 12, 2024 88 mins

This week get it all in Black and White with Prog-Watch! With great themed tunes from Flash, Thin Lizzy, Marillion, No-Man, Steve Gresswell, Steve Thorne, Sylvan, Uriah Heep, Pete Townshend, Dennis DeYoung, and The Syn!

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Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Magnum, A Secret River, Venus Loon, Animatone, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, and Juame Vilaseca ! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the UK project Zeelley Moon!

 

(P.S. I mistakenly announced the Venus Loon song and album title as “Pandora's Box”. It is...

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Tons of tasty tunes this week from The David Cross Band, District 97, We Came From Space, Mesmerizing, Kyros, The Flower Kings, Anubis, and Trevor Rabin! Also, I have three more bands featured in the latest edition of Prog Magazine...Tryo, Storm Deva, and Closure in Moscow!

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January 22, 2024 106 mins

Nearly two hours of great ambient, electronic, progressive music from Hyperion V, Coil, Zanov, Asturias, and Hollan Holmes!

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