On 2 November, the great Keith Emerson would have turned 80. To honor this anniversary I have remastered the Keith Emerson Tribute program I did in the aftermath of his tragic death. The program has lots of great Emerson music (with The Nice, ELP, and ELPowell) and also features commentary from some great contemporary keyboard players, including Erik Norlander, Aaron Clift, Dave Kerzner, and Luca Zabbini. I hope you will join me in remembering a legend of the Prog Rock genre, who we lost too soo...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 87
Awesome new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Jadis, PRP, Nick Fletcher, Stuckfish, and Adult Cinema! 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!
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 86
My 101 Dimensions offering for this month includes great music from Röyksopp, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Sequentia Legenda, and Paul Ellis!
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 85
On this week's program we will look at the use of odd time signatures in Progressive Rock (and occasionally in Mainstream Rock). We'll hear from some of the big names like Yes, Genesis, The Flower Kings, Pink Floyd, Rush, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and more! Plus, a few surprises from the "mainstream"!
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 84
Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Kite Parade, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Thrailkill, Airbag, Emerald City Council, Pallas, the ESP Project, and Circuline! As if that was not enough, I will also have a nice crop of music by four artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Ex-Easter Island Head, We Are Space Horses, Jakub Zytecki, and the Emily Francis Trio!
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 83
This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by your friendly neighborhood Prog-Squatch) features great progressive, electronic, and ambient music from Enigmatic Sound Machines, Bart Hawkins, Frore, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, and Sverre Knut Johansen!
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 82
This week's Prog-Watch is guest-hosted by Dr. Rob Fisher, and is focused on the great Jethro Tull composer, vocalist, and front-man, Ian Anderson! The program was curated by Rob (with assitance from Jamie Robertson, author of Music Measures Memories and a guest on Prog-Watch 1120) and centers on Anderson as a vocalist! Tune in for a lot of great vocal performances from Anderson, and insights from Rob and Jamie!
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 81
Lots of astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear brand new music from Amarok, Nick Magnus, Reliqa, Magic Fig, A Burial At Sea, and Sonus Umbra! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by France's Sloane Square Band!
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 80
This month's 101 Dimensions program curated by Yours Truly features music from Alber Jupiter, Erik Norlander, Klaus Schulze, and Time Being!
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 79
For this week's Prog-Watch I have put together a different kind of program. A death in my family and the need to travel to the funeral left me with no time to put together a proper show, and I didn't want to go with another From the Archives episode. As a compromise, I decided to put together a kind of stream-of-consciousness program full of random stuff from the 1980s. After a brief preamble you will not hear me and my usual patter, just lots of cool tunes. Thanks for your understanding, and I ...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 78
More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Ritual, Alphaline, Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Circuline, and Long Earth! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with The Waterline, the debut solo album by Andy Nixon!
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 77
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 will join me!
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 76
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.
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 75
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!
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 74
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!
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 73
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!
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 72
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, The Forever Moment and Nagual!
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 71
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!
May 27, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 11Ep. 22
This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features music by Nik Turner, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, and Rudy Adrian! Playlist
May 27, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 70
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.
May 20, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 69
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 Jamie's life. We hope you will join us to hear some of "The Diari...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 68
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!
May 06, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 67
My 101 Dimensions program for April includes music from Bergeton, Vinyl Dial, Antony Kalugin, Ashra, and Le Grande Sbam!
May 02, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 66
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 Plants, Northodoxian, and The Beggs Sisters! I hope you will join ...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 65
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!”
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 64
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!
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 63
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!
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 62
Tune in for nearly 2 hours of great progressive, ambient, and electronic music from Gary Numan, Klaus Schulze, Paul Ellis, Synergy, and Rudy Adrian!
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 61
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!
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 60
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!
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 59
