Prog-Watch

Episode 845 - Shaking the Family Tree of Spock’s Beard

I'm doing another of my band family tree explorations on Prog-Watch this week and my subject is the classic US band Spock's Beard! We'll hear from the band proper, and many of the major members, past and present! Join me to hear all the great stuff that I shake out of the Spock's Beard Family Tree!

Episode 844 - Variety + Michal Lapaj on Progressive Discoveries

More astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Fractal Mirror, Alex Pilkevych, Alcantara, Krokofant, Tom Slatter, Choclat Frog, Pentesilea Road, and Premiata Forneria Marconi! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of Riverside kyeboardist Michal Lapaj!

Episode 843 - Welcome To My Nightmare

As a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about nightmares and the macabre! With songs concerning things spooky or supernatural from Alice Cooper, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull! Join me...if you dare!

Episode 842 - In Conversation with Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning

On this week's Prog-Watch my special guest is the charming Mariana Semkina of iamthemorning! Tune in to hear some of our chat, as well as lots of great iamthemorning music, and music from her solo career, including a few from her new EP Disillusioned!

101 Dimensions October 2021

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick - October 2021:1. Ulrich Schnauss – Melts Into Air; Love Grows Out Of Thin Air; The Magic In You; and Thoughtless Motion (23:03) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019)2. Spacelords – Spaceflowers; and Frau Kuhnkes Kosmos (25:18) (from the album Spaceflowers, 2020)3. Jansen Barbieri Karn – The Shallow Pool; To The Core; Sacrifice; and Cold Light (20:27) (from the album Ism, 1999)4. Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter – Main Title; Main Theme – Desolation; Humanity 2; Despair; and Humanity (20:45) (from the album The Thing (OST), 1982)5. Kosmogon – Mässan (25:00) (from the album Mässan, 2021)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Episode 841 - ALL NEW Variety

Get ready for another ALL NEW variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock on this week's Prog-Watch! I've got fantastic stuff from The Watch, Cyan, Aisles, Dec Burke, EmT, Three Colours Dark, Shumaun, Ray Wilson, The Paradox Twin, and Hangar Nord! I hope you will join me!

Episode 840 - Brave New World

Come take a ride with me on this week's Prog-Watch and we'll drive into a Brave New World! (Well every song will be about some world, anyway...the new world, half the world, the real world, a fantasy world, etc.) Soundtrack provided by Michael Penn, The Moody Blues, Big Big Train, Rush, Conspiracy, The Alan Parsons Project, The Strawbs, Kansas, The Electric Light Orchestra, Black Bonzo, David Bowie, Roger Daltrey, Red Bazar, Be Bop Deluxe, and The Anderson Ponty Band!

Episode 839 - Our Progressive Planet - Germany

On Prog-Watch this week it's another installment of OUR PROGRESSIVE PLANET in which Dr. Rob Fisher and I will take you on a little tour of the vibrant progressive music scene in Germany! With music from Sylvan, Lucifer's Friend, Subsignal, Panzerballett, Eloy, RPWL, Frequency Drift, Vanden Plas, Seven Steps To The Green Door, and Schmid and Arnold! We hope you will join us!

Episode 838 - Variety with a Guest DJ Feature

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a Guest DJ Feature, which will have lots of great stuff---new and old---for your listening pleasure! For my part I'll be spinning fabulous music from Yes, Big Big Train, Smalltape, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Gentle Giant, and Texel! I'll also be mixing in selections from our Guest DJ, Mr. Jean-Marc Bonard of Lausanne, Switzerland! Jean-Marc has selected some fantastic stuff from Airquake, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Arena, The Who, Marillion, and Caroline Shaw! Come along for a fun ride!

101 Dimensions - September 2021

101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, September 2021:1. Geoff Downes' New Dance Orchestra – Shine On; Forgiven; Movin' On; Rainbow's End; and Breaking the Spell (21:14) (from the album Electronica, 2010)2. Edgar Froese – Stuntman; It Would Be Like Samoa; and Detroit Snackbar Dreamer (21:37) (from the album Stuntman, 1979)3. Vangelis – Suffocation; and See You Later (19:48) (from the album See You Later, 1980)4. Redshift – Leviathan; Rhode Kill; Panzer; and Different Light (19:27) (from the album Halo, 2002)5. Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger – The Little Smoke; The Landing of Inorganic Life; Portal; Between Parallel Lines; and Journey to the Underworld (26:20) (from the album Sorcerer, 2000)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement