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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!

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!)

There are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Mike Keneally, RPWL, Voda, Prog Gnosis, Leap Day, Half Shell, Davide Ronfetto, David Longdon, Echo Us, and Ghost of the Machine!

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special to mark the tenth anniversary of the program! Hear great music from John Entwistle, Led Zeppelin, Pilot, The Yardbirds, Roy Harper, Paper Lace, Supertramp, IQ, Landmarq, Spring, XTC, Steve Thorne, Kerry Livgren, The Strawbs, The Jelly Jam, and ZZ Top! All in 90 minutes!

Tune in to this month's 101 Dimensions to hear great music from Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, The Weever Sands, John Carpenter, Kraftwerk, and Jaymz Dare!

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Antimatter, Isbjörg, starfish64, Uriah Heep, RPWL, Aviram Tzur, the Prog Collective, Mike Keneally, Ghost of the Machine, The View Inside, Glass Island, and Anima Morte! Be there or be square!

This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my coverage of Ryo Okumoto! More chat with Ryo, more great solo music, and more great music from his work with Spock's Beard, K2, and GPS! (With better interview audio this week.)

This week on Prog-Watch my very special guest is Ryo Okumoto of Spock's Beard! Tune in to hear Ryo chatting a bit about his early years in the music biz, and of course, lots of great music from his solo career, the Beard, and some of his other endeavors like K2, GPS, and his own Ryo Okumoto Project! (Apologies for the audio quality of this week's interview segment. You know how it is...technical difficulties! But I am sure you will be able to get the gist of what Ryo is saying, and I promise the quality will be better for Part Two, next week!)

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special called It's All Fun and Games Until...! With fabulous music by Triumph, Spock's Beard, Roine Stolt, Mighty Handful, Uriah Heep, Mystery, Alan Parson Project, Wood Demons, Badfinger, Arc of Life, Utopia, Robert Berry, Arena, Nick D'Virgilio, and Grand Tour!

Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, and progressive music from Emmett Elvin, Ott, Jean-Michel Jarre, Frank Wyatt and Friends, and Bill Laswell! (RIP, Frank)

On this week's program my very special guest is Aaron Clift of the Aaron Clift Experiment! Aaron and I chat about the band and the making of their new album The Age of Misinformation, and of course I spin lots of great ACE music along the way!

More great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Anima Morte, Comedy of Errors, Phi Yaan-Zek, Quasar, Rick Wakeman, and Elder! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Arena!

This week's Prog-Watch is another variety program full of fabulous contemporary Progressive Rock...sort of a More of the Best of 2022 show PLUS! With great music from the Von Hertzen Brothers, Alan Parsons, Comedy of Errors, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Phi Yaan-Zek, Elder, Tim Bowness, Kaipa, and Bjorn Riis!

This week: Part Two of my collaboration with the Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2022! With great music from Marillion, Ryo Okumoto, Jethro Tull, David Longdon, Stuckfish, Porcupine Tree, the ESP Project, Lobate Scarp, and Tiger Moth Tales! And thanks to all the contributors from this week and last: Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!

See playlist here.

Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2022! This year's contributors include Alex Driessen. David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Magnus Moar, Rick Pueser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Richard Swan, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Lonely Robot, Leap Day, Arena, Kaipa, Alan Parsons, the Von Hertzen Brothers, Bjørn Riis, Tim Bowness, and Hedvig Mollestad & the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra! Part 2 will follow next week!

Happy Holidays from the Prog-Watch team (Tony and Rob)! Click here for Playlist

More astounding new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Evership, Glass Hammer, Arc of Life, Threshold, The Bedlam Furnaces, Sudler's Row, and Glass Island! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the solo debut of a great new band called Alta Forma!

Nearly two hours of great electronic, ambient, progressive music from Royksopp, Tangerine Dream, Jansen Barbieri Takemura, The Fragile Fate, and Brian Eno!

Be on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear lots of great new stuff from Gandalf's Fist, Ologram, Galahad, The Aaron Clift Experiment, Royal Hunt, Solstice, Babal, The Gardening Club, Tribe of Names, Silver Nightmares, and Magenta!