Prog-Watch

Happy New Year! Start it with a bang with Part One of a two-part collaboration between Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2023! We'll hear music from Comedy of Errors, This Winter Machine, the ESP Project, Mike Keneally, Unitopia, Aisles, RPWL, and Haken; and brief reviews by Tony Colvill, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, Kevan Furbank, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, and Magnus Moar! (Part Two to follow one week hence.)

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Progressive Metal! In this program we'll explore the Prog Metal sub-genre through great music from Dream Theater, Katatonia, Sieges Even, Riverside, Ayreon, Fates Warning, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X, Threshold, and Queensryche! Plus, another Listener Prog Story from longtime friend and supporter of the show, Thaddeus Wert, of Nashville, Tennessee, USA!

Lots of fantastic stuff on Prog-Watch this week, from Cyan, Dandelion Charm, Glass Hammer, Ruby Dawn, Jack o' the Clock, Residuous Mentales, Peter Gabriel, and Moon Safari! As if that was not enough, there will also be new music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Spurv, Zahn, and Skald! Plus, our first Listener Prog Story from Charles Anderson of York, England!  

On this week's program my very special guest is Dave Kerzner! Dave and I chat about his recent history and the making of his latest solo albums, The Traveler and Heart Land Mines, Vol. 1, and of course I spin lots of great music along the way!

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about Windows and Doors, with tons of tasty tunes by Kansas, Magnum, Great Pacific Orchestra, Gardening Club Project, Jakko Jakszyk, Rewiring Genesis, K2, the Moody Blues, Mostly Autumn, World Trade, GPS, Pilot, Tony Lowe and Alison Fleming, Zebra, John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Steeleye Span, and Panic Room!

Lots of fabulous, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Subsignal, This Winter Machine, Francis Dunnery's It Bites, Steve Thorne, Christina, Nick Fletcher, and Psycho Yogi! Plus, our friend and guest reviewer, Magnus Moar, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Downes-Braide Association!

Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Dave Kerzner, Subsignal, the Kindred Spirit Band, This Winter Machine, Christina Booth, Steven Wilson, Gayle Ellett and the Electromags, Crack the Sky, and Tiger Moth Tales! Also, I have three more bands featured in the latest edition of Prog Magazine...Pomegranate Tiger, Votchi, and The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors!

This week: the Prog-Watch Halloween 2023 Special! With songs concerning things spooky and creepy from White Willow, The Strawbs, Blue Oyster Cult, Asia, Uriah Heep, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Agents Of Mercy, Ken Hensley, The Syn, Atomic Rooster, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and Spock's Beard! Join me...if you dare!

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Steven Wilson, Galahad, This Winter Machine, and Fearful Symmetry! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Everything But The Girl!

This week I have a remaster of an older episode in which I was Shaking the Family Tree of the Alan Parsons Project! Join me to explore the roots and branches of the band through the music of Pilot, Lenny Zakatek, Colin Blunstone, Dave Paton, Chris Rainbow, Keats, and Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson (together and on their own)!

This week's Prog-Watch explores the connection between classical music and rock and prog rock music! With fabulous music from the Beatles, the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, the Nice, ELO, Rick Wakeman, Fireballet, the Alan Parsons Project, the Enid, and Renaissance!

This week's Prog-Watch is a fantasy concert I am calling Night of the Living PROG 2! All live tracks from a dream line up of artists, including ELP, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Traffic, Utopia, Yes, Tears For Fears, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Rush, and Camel!

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, brand new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from PROG Magazine artists Zopp, Flor de Loto, and Infinite Rising! I also have lots of other terrific tunes from Built For The Future, Tiger Moth Tales, Isbjorg, 35 Tapes, Envy of None, Nine Skies, The Geof Whitely Project, Southern Empire, and The Emerald Dawn!

This week on Prog-Watch my very special guests are Mark Cook, Suzi James and Michael Jobborn of T.A.P! Tune in to hear some of my chat with Mark, Suzi and Michael, and lots of great music from T.A.P (plus some of their other projects...The Forever Moment, Fearful Symmetry, and Head Joint)!

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 spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Citizen Cain, Jethro Tull, Tinyfish, and The Enid!