Prog-Watch

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 actually “Pandora's Paradox”. I stand corrected and apologize for the mistake.)

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!

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

There were so many great albums from 2023 suggested by our friends at The Progressive Aspect that two shows were not enough! So this week's Prog-Watch has More of the Best of 2023, with music from Bruce Soord, Galahad, Nova Cascade, Moon Safari, Solstice, Nick Fletcher, Glass Hammer, and The Flower Kings!

This week's Prog-Watch is all about the STRANGE! With fabulous music from Roger Taylor, the Moody Blues, the Samurai of Prog, Michael Penn, Abel Ganz, Deep Purple, Saga, John Entwistle, ELO, the ESP Project, Guy Manning, Karnataka, Kate Bush, Edison's Children, Ultravox, and the Who! All in 90 minutes!

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2023! We'll hear music from Damanek, I Am the Manic Whale, Ruby Dawn, District 97, Riverside, The Fierce and the Dead, Southern Empire, Kite Parade, and Steven Wilson; and brief reviews by Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Kevin Thompson, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!

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!