Prog-Watch

This week’s Prog-Watch features a variety of excellent, contemporary prog rock, some from another great crop of artists featured in the most recent PROG Magazine! Tune in to hear fabulous stuff from Resistor, Giant Sky, Alan Goldberg, Iron Jinn, OK Goodnight, The Magpie Arc, Dea Velata, The Pyramids, T.A.P, Vespera, and Michel St-Pere!

This week I turn the proceedings over to our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, who will be taking us on a journey through the vibrant progressive music scene of South America. Discover a diverse array of progressive sounds, from Golden Era artists such as Os Mutantes and Psiglo to some of today's exciting acts, including Aisles, Fleesh and Argovia. Join us for another voyage around Our Progressive Planet!

This month's 101 Dimensions program features nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive sounds from Pie Corner Audio, The Fireman, Paul Ellis, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, and Malcolm Galloway.

From the Beatles, to America, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cheap Trick, Ultravox and beyond, Sir George Martin left an enormous and remarkably diverse body of work behind him. Join me on Prog-Watch this week for an overview of his brilliant career.

This week on Prog-Watch, our friend and resident reviewer Dr. Rob Fisher returns for another voyage of Progressive Discovery, this time exploring The Red Dress, the new album by RematriNation! I'll also be spinning great new music from Quivira, The Paradox Twin, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Inner Child, Murky Red, and Long Earth. Join us for another 90 minutes of great progressive music! Rob's Full Review

My 101 Dimensions program for August includes nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from The Art Of Noise, Kitaro, Church Of Hed, Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren, and David Sylvian & Holger Czukay.

The latest PROG Magazine (#172) has arrived, and once again I've gone digging through its pages for some musical discoveries! This week's Prog-Watch features five artists from the new issue—Pye Corner Audio, Intrascendence, Melpomene, Million Moons, and Living In Shadows—along with more new music from Kristoffer Gildenlöw, King of Sweden, If Not If, Man From RavCon, and Jeffrey Erik Mack. Join me for another journey through the wide and wonderful world of progressive music!

This week, Prog-Watch launches a brand new occasionally recurring series celebrating the architects behind some of our favorite recordings...the producers. And who better to inaugurate the series than one of the greatest of them all...the legendary Alan Parsons!

This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Yours Truly) features electronic, ambient and progressive music from Ozric Tentacles, Jon Jenkins, Radio Massacre International, and Can.

This week our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take a look at a stunning and inspiring album by Dutch artist Dick van der Heijde. A brain stem stroke left Dick unable to move or speak, but thanks to modern AI technology he was able to express his feelings and musical ideas in a moving new record called 'Locked In'. For my part, I'll have new music from Long Earth, Gabriel Zingiber, and Phideaux, and a Beardfish track dedicated to a long time listener and friend of the show.

This week we're catching up on many of the great bands that were featured in PROG Magazine 170 & 171! Plus other great stuff from Refestramus, Gardening Club, & Different Light and new music from Yes, The Paradox Twin, & Built For The Future!

June's 101 Dimensions program features nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive music from The Art Of Noise, Lunatic Soul, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ashra, and Deborah Martin & Jill Haley.

This week's program is the fourth installment in the Virtuosos series, and looks at drummers! Hear ten defining performances, filled with everything from power, complex groves, and controlled chaos, to subtle nuances and time-changing finesse, from five truly exceptional sticks men!

This week, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, launches a new recurring series entitled Progressive Resonances. In each installment, Rob will explore a universal human theme through the power and emotional resonance of music. The inaugural episode explores loneliness, drawing on music from artists as diverse as Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Steven Wilson, and Black Sabbath.

Here's my latest 101 Dimensions program, with nearly 2 hours of great electronic, ambient and progressive music from Tangerine Dream, Ars Nova, Ulrich Schnauss, and Nik Turner & Space Invaders.

The giants of progressive rock never truly disappeared… their influence evolved. Join me this week for a journey through the musical bloodlines of Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and King Crimson — explored through the music of modern bands who carry the spirit of those Architects forward while forging identities of their own.

This week I have another edition of Epix for you...five expansive progressive suites that cover all sorts of musical and emotion ground, from Renaissance, Wobbler, IQ, Gazpacho, and Sean Filkins! Kick back, relax, and be transported!

Here's last month's 101 Dimensions program curated by Yours Truly. Nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, progressive, and soundtrack music from Hollan Holmes, Morton Subotnik, John Carpenter, Ian Tescee, and DeeperNET.

This week's program is a variety show full of new and recently released music from a wide range of artists. Four of those artists--HamaSaari, Hen Ogledd, Bovidae, and Far Out Telescope--are featured in the latest edition of PROG Magazine. Other great artists included this week: Karmamoi, Anton Roolaart, The Imperfectionist Collective, Bakelit, Magenta, Tale Cue, Polychrome, and Tigermoth Tales.

From genre-defying fusion to instrumental rock, from revitalizing a legendary band to collaborating in a modern prog supergroup, Steve Morse has built a career that refuses to sit still—or fit neatly into any one category. Come along with me this week and explore some of Steve's vast musical world.

The calendar was such that my turn on 101 Dimensions came up twice in March 2026. Here's my second show for March, with nearly two hours of electronic, ambient, and progressive sounds from Trinity Ward, Synergy, Robert Reed, Tangerine Dream, and Terry Riley & Stefano Scodanibbio.

I have another variety show lined up for this week's Prog-Watch, loaded with a whole lotta awesome, contemporary prog for you! Hear music from Big Big Train, Spock's Beard, Smalltape, Magenta, PsychoYogi, Yak, Clive Nolan, Galasphere 347, The Neal Morse Band, Gazpacho, and Rocking Horse Music Club!

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety show, with great, mostly contemporary prog rock from IQ, Trace, Spock's Beard, Big Big Train, and Tenk van Dool & Paul Sears! Plus, we'll heard from four artists featured in the most recent issue of PROG Magazine: School Disco, Temple of Shibboleth, Smalltape, and Maha Sohona!

Here is my 101 Dimensions program for March. Nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive sounds from Steven Wilson, Klaus Schulze, Isao Tomita, and Madhavi Devi.

This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special centered on kids and children, and features music from diverse artists ranging from Arena to Gary Numan, and Steely Dan to the Who! I hope you will come along for a fun ride!

Lots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Sykofant, PsychoYogi, Holosoil (RV3O), Tavananna, Z Machine and Divided by Design. Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Mailman!

My February 101 Dimensions program features more than 90 minutes of great electronic/ambient/progressive music from Bioscope, Ian Boddy & Robert Rich, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Oliver Wakeman with Steve Howe, and Terry Riley!

This week on Prog-Watch I am spinning tracks from a lot of the PROG Magazine artists I missed over the last few months, and from a few other new releases! Hear fabulous music from HFMC, Sister Ray Davies, Mesmerising, Alan Morse, Hällas, Galasphere 347, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Sans Froid, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Vower, Confirmation Bias, and Oudeziel!

For your listening enjoyment this week I have Part 2 of my collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best prog rock of 2025! With great music from Andrew Latimer, EBB, The Flower Kings, echolyn, Gazpacho, Mostly Autumn, Bioscope, Big Big Train, Karmakanic, Tribe3, and Rocking Horse Music Club! And thanks again to all the TPA contributors: Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Ian Paul Sharp, Graham Thomas, and Leo Trimming!

This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly. Nearly two hours of great electronic/ambient/progressive music from Green Isac Orchestra, Ashra, Systems Theory, Tangerine Dream, and Jon Hassel & Brian Eno!

Happy 2026! 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 2025! This year's contributors include Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Ian Paul Sharp, Graham Thomas, and Leo Trimming! In this first part of our collaboration we will hear fabulous music from Rick Wakeman, The Wood Demons, Whispers of Granite, Steven Wilson, IQ, Jethro Tull, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Spriggan Mist, Nick Fletcher, Lunatic Soul, and Dave Bainbridge! Part 2 will follow in two weeks!

My 101 Dimensions program for December features nearly two hours of great electronic/ambient/progressive music from Trace, Grobschnitt, Johannes Schmoelling, Anthony Phillips, and Johan Agebjörn!

On this week's Prog-Watch, Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take an in depth look at War Stories, the fabulous new solo album by Andrew Latimer of Camel fame! Also, new music from Kepler Ten, Yak, and Mostly Autumn!

This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at The Canterbury Scene! Come explore this sub-genre through great music from Caravan, Gong, Hatfield and the North, Steve Hillage, Khan, Supersister, National Health, Egg, and the Soft Machine!

My monthly 101 Dimensions program includes nearly two hours of progressive electronic and ambient music from Sverre Knut Johansen, Edgar Froese, Vangelis, Redshift, and Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger!

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with a few from artists included in the most recent PROG Magazine! Tune in to hear great contemporary stuff from Jim Griffin, Viper Soup Complex, The Wood Demons, Connor Kaminski, Nad Sylvan, Dave Bainbridge, Mark Bogert, BEAT, and Gentle Giant!

This year's Halloween Special features spooky music from artists including Asia, the Edgar Winter Group, Kansas, Blue Öyster Cult, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and many more!

Here's my 101 Dimensions program for October.

This week Dr. Rob Fisher returns to expand your musical horizons with a new edition of Progressive Discoveries, featuring the Canadian cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne! I'll also be pitching some new and different sounds, from Pinn Dropp, Euphoria Station, Dave Bainbridge, Nick Fletcher, Bakelit, and Mihrax!

This week's program is another of my fun, little themed specials! Every song has a form of the word "leave" in the title and I've got stuff from artists ranging from Black Bonzo to Yes! Listen for a few curve balls and hidden gems (as usual)!

This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by Yours Truly) features nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from Hipokamp Projekt, Jim Griffin, Porcupine Tree, Lunatic Soul, and Morton Subotnik!

In this week's program Dr. Rob Fisher returns to expand your horizons with some Spanish Prog from Malabriega! And Big Tony spins contemporary tracks from Jack O'the Clock, Edensong, Mark Trueack, The Hare and Hoofe, the Hipokamp Projekt, and Chester Thompson!

From his early days with Lodgic and World Trade, his first involvements with Yes and Chris Squire (in Conspiracy), through his solo career, many side projects (The Prog Collective, Circa, Yoso, and Arc of Life), and his eventual return to the Yes fold, Billy Sherwood has sure been around the proverbial block! Join me this week for a little tour of his vast Musical World!

This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by Yours Truly) features nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music from DeeperNET, Nova Cascade, Church of Hed, Kitaro, and Klaus Schulze!

Lots of great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! PROG Mag artists Grace Hayhurst, Hiroe, and Huis, plus The Foundation, Jethro Tull, and Steve Hackett! And our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by an exciting new project called Whispers Of Granite!

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with great new stuff from Fearful Symmetry, Discipline, and the Kindred Spirit Band; two tributes to music icons we lost recently; and a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Dr. Rob Fisher and the latest album by the Flower Kings!

This month's 101 Dimensions offering includes nearly two hours of electronic/ambient/progressive music by Harmonia, Matt Baber, Silicon Psychosis, Vangelis, and Time Being!

Things conspired to make it impossible for me to complete a "regular" show this week (as if there is such a thing!) and I didn't want to drop another "From The Archives". So I revisited the idea of doing a stream of consciousness program with just a lot of random cool stuff---much of which I might not usually play on the show---with no patter. This time I focused on the 1990s. I hope you enjoy!

This week's Prog-Watch is a variety program with lots of great stuff from Six By Six, Jakko Jakszyk, Cosmic Cathedral, Tears For Fears, Circu5, and Drifting Sun! Plus, Dr. Rob Fisher returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the new album by Ukrainian band Obiymy Doschu! This album is at the top of Rob's list for the best of 2025 so far, so don't miss it!

This week's Prog-Watch is another great variety show with music by Ambient Den, The Windmill, Nine Skies, Castle Mountain Moon, King of Sweden, Infringement, and Riverside, plus stuff from four artists featured in the latest PROG Magazine...Faun Fables, Rod Rodrigues, Fifth Daughter, and Törsz!