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!

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!

This week on Prog-Watch I have a bit of a different interview and feature show on Nick Katona, head of Melodic Revolution Records! I will be chatting with Nick and spinning lots of great new music from his artists, Gayle Ellet & the Electromags, the Gardening Club, Forever Twelve, Days Before Tomorrow, Steve Bonino, Colouratura, the Terry Newman Project, Colin Carter, and T.A.P!

This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick features the usual eclectic mixture of stuff, this time from Gargoyles, Zanov, The Forever Moment, Coil, and AeTopus!

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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!