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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

Episode 1036 - Epix, Vol. 12

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!

Sep 12, 20231 hr 35 minSeason 1Ep. 1

101 Dimensions - September 2023

Nearly two hours of great ambient, electonic, progressive music from Null Terminator, JeGong, Mong Tong, Klaus Schulze, and Deborah Martin & Jill Haley!

Sep 06, 20231 hr 48 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1035 - Explorations, Vol. 5 - Heavy Prog

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Heavy Prog! In this program we'll explore the Heavy sub-genre through great music from Porcupine Tree, Rush, Headspace, Karnivool, DeeExpus, Black Bonzo, Uriah Heep, Haken, The Mars Volta, Anekdoten, Atomic Rooster, and Sky Architect!

Sep 05, 20231 hr 32 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1034 - Variety

More great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! With music from Southern Empire, Eloy, 35 Tapes, Herd of Instinct, Emmett Elvin, I Am The Manic Whale, Steve Thorne, The Anchoret, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, and Psychoyogi! I hope you will join me!

Aug 29, 20231 hr 28 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1033 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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 stuff from PROG Magazine artists Ihlo, The Anchoret, and They Watch Us From The Moon! Plus lots of other fabulous music from Jethro Tull, Unitopia, United Progressive Fraternity, Lifesigns, I Am The Manic Whale, Head Spin, and Comedy of Errors!

Aug 22, 20231 hr 30 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1032 - Shaking the Family Tree of ELP

This week's Prog-Watch is another band family tree exploration, and this time around the subject is the iconic ELP! Tune in to hear lots of great music from the extensive musical careers of Messrs. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer!

Aug 15, 20231 hr 39 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1031 - Show and Tell

The theme on this week's Prog-Watch is Show and Tell! With music from Saga, Rush, Rocket Scientists, Kansas, Queen, Asia, Pink Floyd, Tiger Moth Tales, The Pineapple Thief, Alan Parsons Project, Triumph, Brian Eno, Stone Temple Pilots, Zebra, Steely Dan, Kayak, Radiohead, and Genesis!

Aug 08, 20231 hr 31 minSeason 1Ep. 1

101 Dimensions - July 2023

July's 101 Dimensions features great ambient/electronic/progressive music from Silicon Psychosis, Richard Barbieri, Johannes Schmoelling, Radio Massacre International, and Harmonia & Eno!

Aug 02, 20231 hr 56 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1030 - Variety

This week on Prog-Watch I'm pitching another straight-up variety program of great new and recently released stuff! We'll hear from Riverside, Pendragon, Stefano Panunzi, Obscurus Rex, Steve Thorne, Ocean Districts, Lifesigns, The Fierce and the Dead, Mostly Autumn, and Big Big Train!

Aug 01, 20231 hr 29 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1029 - Bonus Tracks

This week on Prog-Watch it's all Bonus Tracks! From the likes of Tony Banks, Anekdoten, Pendragon, Asia, Uriah Heep, Brian May, Jethro Tull, Steve Hackett, Conspiracy, ELO, Yes, UFO, Fish, ELP, and the Doors! Come along to hear some lost and hidden gems!

Jul 25, 20231 hr 29 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1028 - Variety + the ESP Project on Progressive Discoveries

A mix of great stuff awaits on this week's Prog-Watch, including new music from Riverside, T.A.P, Martin Miller, The Fierce and the Dead, and Comedy of Errors! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Reverie, the latest release from Tony Lowe's ESP Project!

Jul 18, 20231 hr 29 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1027 - What I Did on my Vacation

My recent road trip/vacation was the experience of a lifetime! So I figured I would tell you a bit about it in words and song. I hope you will join me for my musical travelogue of my trip across America!

Jul 11, 20231 hr 32 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1026 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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 stuff from Xavier Boscher, Mystery, Sound of Strangers, The Samuarai of Prog, Ocean's Edge, Elegant Simplicity, Andrew Gold, Polychrome, Sproing, Martin Miller, Ocean District, and Emma Tricca! I hope you will join me!

Jul 04, 20231 hr 31 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1025 - Virtuosos, Vol. 3 - Bassists

Join Rob Fisher, Magnus Moar and Big Tony on Prog-Watch this week for a look at some of the greatest bass players to ever grace our favorite genre! Guess who made the program, based on the episode's cover art! Even if you can guess them all, you won't want to miss this one! It's another belter!

Jun 27, 20231 hr 34 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1024 - RIP Steve Luttig

I lost a good friend a few weeks back. Without him there would probably be no Prog-Watch. So please join me as I pay tribute and celebrate the life of my friend, Steve Luttig.

Jun 13, 20231 hr 52 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1023 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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 The Enigma Division, Covet, and Us and Them! Plus lots of other fabulous music from Aviram Tzur, starfish64, Overhead, 5th Season, Isbjorg, Matt Dorsey, and Spencer Miller!

Jun 06, 20231 hr 30 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1022 - Down by the Seaside

This week go Down by the Seaside with Prog-Watch! Hear great sea-themed tunes from Led Zeppelin, Camel, Subsignal, Crack the Sky, Anekdoten, Jethro Tull, John Wetton, The Strawbs, Men at Work, Steve Howe, The Who, Mike McGear, Squackett, and George Harrison!

May 30, 20231 hr 28 minSeason 1Ep. 1

101 Dimensions - May 2023

This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Anthony Rowsick) features music from Polinski, Richard Barbieri, Radio Massacre International, Johannes Schmoelling, and Maud the moth & Trajedesaliva!

May 25, 20231 hr 50 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1020 - Variety

This week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in April edition of Prog Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Matt Dorsey, Jan Rivera, ifsounds, Karda Estra, Cairo, Hög sjö, Chaos and the Cosmos, Ten Jinn, The Moustrap Factory, Skeptosphere, The Dave Foster Band and Yemrot! I hope you will join me!

May 16, 20231 hr 32 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1018 - Variety + Pink on Progressive Discoveries

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Kripke's Illusion, Instigations, Kinetic Element, Aisles, Sudler's Row, and the Dave Foster Band! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Pink! (Yes, I said “Pink” and didn't follow it with “Floyd”! Let's hear the man out!)

May 02, 20231 hr 35 minSeason 1Ep. 18

101 Dimensions - April 2023

This month's 101 Dimensions features the music of Tangerine Dream, Jon Jenkins, Ott, Vangelis, and Madhavi Devi!

Apr 26, 20231 hr 44 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1017 - A Tribute to Jeff Beck

I hope you will join me on Prog-Watch this week when I will be paying tribute to a very progressive and iconic guitarist who sadly passed away earlier this year...Jeff Beck. I had so much great music slated that you will hear very little of me after a short preamble. Following that, get ready for nearly two hours of sublime guitar-oriented rock from a true innovator and virtuoso.

Apr 25, 20231 hr 53 minSeason 1Ep. 17

Episode 1015 - Variety + Collage on Progressive Discoveries

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Aisles, Cairo, Aethellis, Yes, Joe DeNinzon & Stratospheerius, Overhead, Ten Jinn, and eMolecule! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the iconic Polish band, Collage!

Apr 11, 20231 hr 30 minSeason 1Ep. 15

101 Dimensions - March 2023

This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Anthony Rowsick) features a lot of chilled electronic and ambient stuff from the likes of Mike Oldfield, Chronotope Project, Ben Cox, Craig Padilla, and Dean De Benedictis!

Mar 29, 20231 hr 50 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Episode 1013 - Variety with Prog Magazine Features

Great sounds abound on this week's Prog-Watch! Tune in to hear fabulous stuff from Envy of None, The Prog Collective, Prog Gnosis, Mystery, Keith McCoy, Great Wide Nothing, EBB, BangTower, Liquid Sound Company and Herd of Instinct, Spriggan Mist, Shell Beach, and Kite Parade! For more about EBB and Shell Beach, check out the Lime Light and Prog Around the World sections in this month's Prog Magazine!

Mar 28, 20231 hr 29 minSeason 1Ep. 13

Episode 1012 - Classic Instrumentals

Classic instrumentals are on tap this week! So get ready for a lot of great music (and just a few vocal-type sounds) from ELO, The Allman Brothers Band, The Alan Parsons Project, ELP, Traffic, Rush, The Edgar Winter Group, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Focus, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson! (Special thanks to my friend Steve Luttig who suggested the idea for this episode and many of the tracks!)

Mar 21, 20231 hr 30 minSeason 1Ep. 12
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