Prog-Watch

Anthony Rowsick

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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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610 episodes

Prog-Watch 1113 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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!

1h 26m
Mar 25, 2024
Prog-Watch 1112 - Explorations, Vol. 7 - Crossover Prog

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Crossover Prog! In this program we'll explore the crossover sub-genre through great music from The Tea Party, Kevin Gilbert, Supertramp, Peter Gabriel, Phideaux Xavier, Radiohead, Ritual, Lunatic Soul, The Dear Hunter, Dave Bainbridge, Gazpacho, Steven Wilson, and Big Big Train!   Please note that I accidentally announced this show as Explorations, Vol. 6 during the program, but later realized it was actually Vol. 7. To avoid confusion on the website I have corrected the show art and titled it properly as Vol. 7. (Oh the perils of self-producing a weekly internet radio show and podcast! Don't try this at home, kids!)

1h 28m
Mar 18, 2024
Prog-Watch 1111 - Variety + Imperial Measures on Progressive Discoveries

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luz de Riada, Karfagen, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Shadows on Mercury, and Big Big Train! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by Imperial Measures!

1h 29m
Mar 11, 2024
Prog-Watch 1110 - The Musical World of Steve Winwood

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Steve Winwood! From his early days in the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith, through to his chart topping solo years in the 1980s, Steve has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!

1h 31m
Mar 05, 2024
101 Dimensions - February 2024

This month's This week's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features ambient/electronic/progressive music from Klaus Schulze, Coil, Brian Eno, and Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo!

1h 41m
Feb 28, 2024
Prog-Watch 1109 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

Lots of fantastic stuff this week from Venus Loon, The Samurai of Prog, Trevor Rabin, Richard Wileman, A Secret River, Juame Vilaseca, Yobrepus, and Jef Bek! As if that was not enough, we'll also hear music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Temic, Hands of the Heron, and Petra Hermanova!

1h 28m
Feb 27, 2024
Prog-Watch 1108 - Classix, Vol. 5

This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of classics from the halcyon days of the 1970s! With music from Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Alan Parson Project, Pink Floyd, Spring, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, Genesis, England, 10CC, Nektar, Renaissance, and Kaipa!

1h 28m
Feb 19, 2024
Prog-Watch 1107 - Black and White

This week get it all in Black and White with Prog-Watch! With great themed tunes from Flash, Thin Lizzy, Marillion, No-Man, Steve Gresswell, Steve Thorne, Sylvan, Uriah Heep, Pete Townshend, Dennis DeYoung, and The Syn!

1h 28m
Feb 13, 2024
Prog-Watch 1106 - Variety + Zeelley Moon on Progressive Discoveries

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.)

1h 31m
Feb 06, 2024
Prog-Watch 1105 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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!

1h 30m
Jan 30, 2024
101 Dimensions - January 2024

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

1h 46m
Jan 23, 2024
Prog-Watch 1104 - More of the Best of 2023

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!

1h 28m
Jan 22, 2024
Prog-Watch 1103 - Ain't It Strange

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!

1h 29m
Jan 15, 2024
Prog-Watch 1102 - Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect Present Some of the Best of 2023, Pt. 2

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!

1h 27m
Jan 09, 2024
Prog-Watch 1101 - Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect Present Some of the Best of 2023, Pt. 1

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.)

1h 26m
Jan 02, 2024
Prog-Watch 1050 - Explorations, Vol. 6 - Progressive Metal

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!

1h 33m
Dec 18, 2023
Prog-Watch 1049 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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!  

1h 29m
Dec 11, 2023
Prog-Watch 1048 - In Conversation with Dave Kerzner

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!

1h 27m
Dec 05, 2023
Prog-Watch 1047 - Windows and Doors

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!

1h 30m
Nov 27, 2023
Episode 1046 - In Conversation with Nick Katona of Melodic Revolution Records

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!

1h 32m
Nov 20, 2023
101 Dimensions - November 2023

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!   Playlist https://progwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-11-Playlist.jpg

1h 41m
Nov 13, 2023
Episode 1045 - Variety + Downes-Braide Association on Progressive Discoveries

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!

1h 27m
Nov 13, 2023
Episode 1044 - Variety with PROG Magazine Artists

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!

1h 28m
Nov 06, 2023
Episode 1043 - Halloween 2023

This week: the Prog-Watch Halloween 2023 Special! With songs concerning things spooky and creepy from White Willow, The Strawbs, Blue Oyster Cult, Asia, Uriah Heep, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Agents Of Mercy, Ken Hensley, The Syn, Atomic Rooster, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and Spock's Beard! Join me...if you dare!

1h 34m
Oct 30, 2023
Episode 1042 - Variety + Everything But The Girl on Progressive Discoveries

More great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Steven Wilson, Galahad, This Winter Machine, and Fearful Symmetry! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Everything But The Girl!

1h 27m
Oct 23, 2023
Episode 1041 - Shaking the Family Tree of the Alan Parsons Project (Remastered)

This week I have a remaster of an older episode in which I was Shaking the Family Tree of the Alan Parsons Project! Join me to explore the roots and branches of the band through the music of Pilot, Lenny Zakatek, Colin Blunstone, Dave Paton, Chris Rainbow, Keats, and Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson (together and on their own)!

1h 30m
Oct 16, 2023
Episode 1040 - The Classical Connection

This week's Prog-Watch explores the connection between classical music and rock and prog rock music! With fabulous music from the Beatles, the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, the Nice, ELO, Rick Wakeman, Fireballet, the Alan Parsons Project, the Enid, and Renaissance!

1h 33m
Oct 10, 2023
101 Dimensions - October 2023

This month's 101 Dimensions features great music from Djam Karet, Head Joint, The Forever Moment, Andy Edwards, and The Chronotope Project!      

1h 44m
Oct 09, 2023
Episode 1039 - Night of the Living PROG 2

This week's Prog-Watch is a fantasy concert I am calling Night of the Living PROG 2! All live tracks from a dream line up of artists, including ELP, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Traffic, Utopia, Yes, Tears For Fears, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Rush, and Camel!

1h 29m
Oct 02, 2023
Episode 1038 - 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 Zopp, Flor de Loto, and Infinite Rising! I also have lots of other terrific tunes from Built For The Future, Tiger Moth Tales, Isbjorg, 35 Tapes, Envy of None, Nine Skies, The Geof Whitely Project, Southern Empire, and The Emerald Dawn! 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

1h 29m
Sep 26, 2023