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Prog-Watch

Anthony Rowsickprogsquatch.podbean.com
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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Episodes

Prog-Watch 1218 - Variety + Whispers of Granite on Progressive Discoveries

Lots of great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! PROG Mag artists Grace Hayhurst, Hiroe, and Huis, plus The Foundation, Jethro Tull, and Steve Hackett! And our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by an exciting new project called Whispers Of Granite!

Aug 18, 20251 hr 29 minEp. 116

Prog-Watch 1217 - Variety + The Flower Kings on Progressive Discoveries

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with great new stuff from Fearful Symmetry, Discipline, and the Kindred Spirit Band; two tributes to music icons we lost recently; and a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Dr. Rob Fisher and the latest album by the Flower Kings!

Aug 05, 20251 hr 31 minEp. 115

101 Dimensions - July 2025

This month's 101 Dimensions offering includes nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music by Harmonia, Matt Baber, Silicon Psychosis, Vangelis, and Time Being!

Jul 28, 20251 hr 50 minEp. 114

Prog-Watch 1216 - Whatnot From The 1990s

Things conspired to make it impossible for me to complete a "regular" show this week (as if there is such a thing!) and I didn't want to drop another "From The Archives". So I revisited the idea of doing a stream of consciousness program with just a lot of random cool stuff---much of which I might not usually play on the show---with no patter. This time I focused on the 1990s. I hope you enjoy!

Jul 21, 20251 hr 25 minSeason 12Ep. 16

Prog-Watch 1215 - Variety + Obiymy Doschu on Progressive Discoveries

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with lots of great stuff from Six By Six, Jakko Jakszyk, Cosmic Cathedral, Tears For Fears, Circu5, and Drifting Sun! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the new album by Ukrainian band Obiymy Doschu! This album is at the top of Rob's list for the best of 2025 so far, so don't miss it!

Jul 07, 20251 hr 28 minEp. 113

Prog-Watch 1214 - Variety

This week's Prog-Watch is another great variety show with music by Ambient Den, The Windmill, Nine Skies, Castle Mountain Moon, King of Sweden, Infringement, and Riverside, plus stuff from four artists featured in the latest PROG Magazine...Faun Fables, Rod Rodrigues, Fifth Daughter, and Törsz!

Jun 23, 20251 hr 28 minEp. 112

Prog-Watch 1213 - Variety + Yuka and Chronoship on Progressive Discoveries

Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Cosmograf, Glass Island, and the Flower Kings, plus three more artists who are featured in this month's PROG Magazine---The Ash Twin Project, Goodbye Mountain, and Phil Mercy! As if that was not enough, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Japanese band Yuka & Chronoship!

Jun 10, 20251 hr 36 minEp. 111

101 Dimensions - May 2025

Here's my May 2025 outing for Progzilla Radio's 101 Dimensions program. It features nearly 2 hours of great progressive electronic/ambient music by Hanry, Jean-Michel Jarre, The Orb (featuring David Gilmour), The Fragile Fate, Glass Hammer, and Kitaro!

Jun 03, 20251 hr 52 minEp. 110

Prog-Watch 1212 - Life Is A Long Song

This week's program is a themed special called "Life Is A Long Song". Every tune played will have the word "Song" in the title. There will be lots of progressive stuff, of course, but also quite a few curve balls! Come along for the ride and see if you can guess some of the tracks that I will be playing!

May 27, 20251 hr 30 minEp. 109

Prog-Watch 1211 - Variety + Djabe & Steve Hackett on Progressive Discoveries

It's a bit of a mash up on Prog-Watch this week, with picks by a friend of the show named Jim Donak (from Captain Beyond, Chris Vrenna, Wobbler, and Van der Graaf Generator), a couple of new ones (from Pryzme and Daidrum), and another voyage of Progressive Discovery with Dr. Rob Fisher, looking at the latest album by Djabe and Steve Hackett! All in 90 minutes!

May 12, 20251 hr 27 minEp. 108

101 Dimensions - Late April 2025

This episode of 101 Dimensions features nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive music from David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor, Eddie Jobson, Patrick Moraz, Manuel Gottsching, Mannheim Steamroller, and Enya!

May 05, 20251 hr 57 minEp. 107

Prog-Watch 1210 - Variety

Lots of fantastic contemporary stuff this week from Jethro Tull, Karmakanic, Brass Camel, Brendan Perkins, Red Bazar, Chakra Vimana, IQ, and Magic Pie! Also, I have four more artists featured in the latest edition of PROG Magazine...Clarissa Connelly, Devrev, Leoni Jane Kennedy, and Venamoris!

Apr 28, 20251 hr 28 minEp. 106

Prog-Watch 1209 - Variety + Lyrella on Progressive Discoveries

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmakanic, Echolyn, SomewhereOut, and Mostly Autumn! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by the Cheryl Stringall and Tony Lowe project Lyrella!

Apr 14, 20251 hr 28 minEp. 105

101 Dimensions - March 2025-2

This edition of 101 Dimensions (curated by me) features nearly 2 hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from AeTopus, Focus, Wendy Carlos, Red Shift, and David Helpling & Jon Jenkins!

Apr 07, 20251 hr 53 minEp. 104

Prog-Watch 1208 - Epix, Vol. 14

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and this time they are all contemporary songs! Tune in to hear great music from Echolyn, Southern Empire, Neal Morse, Steven Wilson, and Motorpsycho!

Mar 31, 20251 hr 26 minEp. 103

Prog-Watch 1207 - Variety

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the 158th edition of Prog Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Sykofant, Jethro Tull, Red Bazar, Tribe3, The Aurora Project, Tiberius, Godsticks, Seventh Station, Flor de Loto, Imaginaerium, iCobbles, and Dream Theater! I hope you will join me!

Mar 18, 20251 hr 30 minEp. 102

101 Dimensions - March 2025

This edition of 101 Dimensions (curated by me) features nearly 2 hours of electronic/ambient progressive music from Johan Agebjörn, David Arkenstone, Yak, Ash Ra Tempel, and Ben Cross!

Mar 12, 20251 hr 52 minEp. 101

Prog-Watch 1206 - All or Nothing

There's no half-way on Prog-Watch this week, as we get ALL OR NOTHING! With tons of tasty, themed tunes from Starcastle, UK, Traffic, Gentle Giant, David Gilmour, Jethro Tull, George Harrison, Unitopia, Steve Howe, Lobate Scarp, The Cars, Rush, Blind Faith, Kevin Gilbert, Arc Of Life, Peter Banks, Mott The Hoople, and The Alan Parsons Project!

Mar 03, 20251 hr 33 minEp. 100

Prog-Watch 1205 - Variety + Nicola Lori on Progressive Discoveries

More astounding, new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from PROG Magazine artists Henge, Third Quadrant, Crisalida, and Kanaan & Aevestaden! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album Urban Vision by Italian artist Nicola Lori!

Feb 17, 20251 hr 29 minEp. 99

Prog-Watch 1204 - Cover 2 Cover (Remastered)

This was a fun older show that I thought was worthy of a bit of a facelift. So here it is: the second covers special I did with improved audio quality! It features a lot of interesting stuff from Kevin Gilbert, Robert Berry and friends, Daryl Stuermer, Erik Norlander, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Fish, Rush, 3, Unitopia, Dream Theater, Yes, Echolyn, Steve Howe, and Arjen Lucassen! I hope you enjoy!

Feb 04, 20251 hr 30 minEp. 97

Prog-Watch 1203 - Variety + Fleesh on Progressive Discoveries

Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Overhead The Albatross, Tom Penaguin, Oddleaf, Motorpsycho, and We Are Bodies! 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 Brazilan duo Fleesh!

Jan 28, 20251 hr 31 minEp. 96

Prog-Watch 1202 - Prog-Watch and TPA Present Some of the Best of 2024, Pt. 2

This week on Prog-Watch: Part Two of the big collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2024! With great music from Meer, Marco Gluhmann, Returned to the Earth, Frost*, Nolan Potter, Kavus Torabi, Amarok, Beardfish, the Barock Project, the ESP Project, and the Pineapple Thief! And thanks again to all the contributors: Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, an...

Jan 13, 20251 hr 27 minEp. 94

Prog-Watch 1201 - Prog-Watch and TPA Present Some of the Best of 2024, Pt. 1

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 2024! This year's contributors include Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Oddleaf, David Gilmour, Jon And...

Jan 06, 20251 hr 23 minEp. 93

The 1st Prog-Watch Christmas Special (Remastered)

For this year's Christmas Special, I dug back deep into the Archives and dusted off the first one, from the very first Season of Prog-Watch back in 2014! On this program I was joined by my youngest (by about a minute) son, Paul, and we chatted and reminisced a little, and played some Christmas favorites from mostly Progressive artists. I updated the tracks to higher quality, and added a few since the show was a little short by today's standards. I hope you enjoy! Happy Holidays...however you cel...

Dec 24, 20241 hr 27 minEp. 92

Prog-Watch 1138 - Variety with a Guest DJ Feature

This week's program is a variety show with lots of interesting tracks suggested by Guest DJ (and one of my Patrons of the Progressive Arts) Mr. Paul Watson! Plus, another crop from artists featured in this month's PROG Magazine! We'll hear tons of tasty tunes from Pencarrow, 7BZH, Vulgar Unicorn, i Häxa, Demians, Fish On Friday, No Brain Cell, Kalandra, Airbag, Gazpacho, Arabs In Aspic, and Ruby Dawn!

Dec 09, 20241 hr 23 minEp. 91

Prog-Watch 1137 - Our Progressive Planet - Japan

This week our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, flies solo for the first time and presents an entire episode of Prog-Watch on his own! The program is an Our Progressive Planet feature centered on Japan, and includes music from Asturias, Ars Nova, Bi Kyo Ran, Hiromi Uehara, Kitaro, KBB, Cichla Temensis, Yuka & Chronoship, Kumorigahara, Ryo Okumoto, Gerard, and Outer Limits!

Nov 25, 20241 hr 37 minEp. 90

Prog-Watch 1136 - Variety + Long Earth on Progressive Discoveries

Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Frost*, Raven Sad, and PROG Magazine artists Civil Service, Mark Barron, Giant Walker, and Ebony Buckle! 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 UK project Long Earth!

Nov 18, 20241 hr 29 minEp. 89

101 Dimensions - November 2024

This month's excursion into the realm of 101 Dimensions features an eclectic set of music from Church of Hed, Pijn, Vibravoid, Adult Cinema, and Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher.

Nov 11, 20241 hr 46 minEp. 88
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