Progressive Rock Show on Mixcloud I did this for four or five years until I moved out of state. As all of the above are Progressive Rock artists. Peace! Julie, PRN
Prog Rock Nation is a Progressive Rock radio show that airs on KTAL-LP 101.5 FM, Las Cruces, NM USA on Saturday nights 8-10pm MST/MDT and again on Sunday mornings 3-5am MST/MDT. KTAL-LP also has a live stream https://tunein.com/radio/KTAL-LP-s299277/ or lccommunityradio.org/stream.html so you can listen no matter where in the World you are. My introduction to Progressive Rock was via the Prog Roc
k single “Roundabout” by the iconic Prog band Yes, I was just around 8 or 9 yrs old at the time and fell in love with the guitar intro and that prominent trebby jazzy funky swirling bass line. Although a generally quiet person, as I had a lifelong love for music as well as radio, I coerced myself into becoming a radio DJ and volunteered as such at a community radio station in Albuquerque, NM during the 80s. This passion to play music for the masses never waned, however, and I started my podcast, Progkast, in February of 2016. Progkast is an all independent artist podcast and is available through most podcast outlets and is hosted at www.soundcloud.com/progkast. My goal at Prog Rock Nation is to indulge those that are already into Prog, as well as to pull in new listeners who may not be all so familiar with the genre. If you like Pink Floyd, Rush, or TransSiberian Orchestra, you will like some of what I play. You may have liked it all along and never knew it! Jazz Fusion, Psychedelic, Experimental, Symphonic, Experimental... all these are subgenres or near genres (influencing Prog) of Progressive Rock.
07/15/2025
Hey ya'll think you will really like this. It is new from Yak, the band formed in the 80s that disappeared, and reappeared once or twice in the past 20 or so years. The outfit is headed by Martin Morgan, who pretty much retired from the music business to help run an animal sanctuary, Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary. So check this out from the album, and consider giving to a worthy cause.
Track 2 from the latest YAK album - The Pink Man & the Bishop - released on 4th July 2025 (at 10:45 am)
04/09/2025
The "sister" show, and precursor to this show, and the only show that is able to be hosted on a free platform, as this one is not due to copyright and royalty issues... Please consider contributing to the finances to keep this as a true podcast (available on most all podcast distribution platforms, such as Apple Podcasts, Google Play, PlayerFM, etc. ) for the next year. After that, I will make it only be available on (currently free to host on) Youtube. Progkast has existed since Feb 2016 with 51 total shows, the last show dropped was July 2024. The show has been fully sponsored by patrons for the past 6 or 7 years, even though costs to host the show have kept rising. It is now only partially sponsored. Please consider contributing to help cover costs that will end in March 2026, when the show is 100% only on Youtube. Thanks :D
10/29/2024
The first 2 hours are a new show. The midnight show is actually from the Progkast podcast 2016 Halloween show. Found at lccommunityradio.org . All times in US Mountain DST (Daylight Savings Time)
08/28/2024
Early Genesis tour manager, roadie, chauffer, friend, and so much more.. Just read his memoir earlier this year. Good read.
Today, Richard Macphail passed away unexpectedly.
07/30/2024
There are a lot of Norwegian Prog bands that I play, so I thought that some of them might like this. Eric Gillete (Neal Morse Band, solo), and Simen Sandnes are in the band Temic together. This is a country song, but so appropriate to be so, and it's pretty funny if you are "country", or Norwegian, or maybe neither... So they were just goofing around, and this is the result. 😁
07/17/2024
Another PRN coming soon! Meanwhile, I gotta say, this is one of the best Progkasts I've done 😳 Some really great music from Zen Orchestra, Bend the Future, Foreign Accent, and Caravaggio. I've played the Caravaggio song here on PRN before, but none of the others have been played on PRN... yet.. A previous album from Bend the Future has been played on both Progkast and PRN before, and the other two are completely new to both shows. Really digging all of the above contributions. Be sure to keep notes, as there will be a survey towards the end of the year for the best 10-15 songs of the year PLAYED on Progkast. Remember, any song, no matter when released, as long as it was played on Progkast in 2024 is eligible for the top spot at the end of the year. Are you making a list? I am. And my votes will be the tie breakers 😳A heads up? Every song on this show is on my list 😳 Be sure to head over to the Progkast FB page to follow and keep attuned of new PK releases. And vote in November!
Progkast - 51 playlist: Artist - Song - Time Stamp--------------------------------------------------Zen Orchestra - Minds...
06/18/2024
Head on over to Progkast, the all independent podcast, for the independent version of PRN, brought to you by Julie Sanchez. Progkast has been around since 2016, and as a podcast is distributed to podcast distributors worldwide, including I
Progkast - 491) No Man's Valley - Creepoid Blues-------2) Different Light - A Fool's Errand3) Glorious Wolf - Beautifully Broken4) Steff - Zachary -------5) ...
06/05/2024
Wow Prog Rock Nation and Progkast both released within days of each other - that's gotta be a first! Found this from way back when... the early days of the Progkast, the all independent Progressive Rock podcast. I am at exactly the same spot and could have written this same exact thing this morning! If you like PRN, but are interested in discovering new music, new bands, things you won't hear most anywhere else, check out the latest Progkast( #48), just released, and also now on Youtube.
Facebook, from June 2016 (First Progkast was in February):
"Call me a freak, but I am really excited about the next podcast. I have most of the playlist gathered, just a few more to add. The music is amazing. I have culled most of the music from independent artists that I have contacted. And most of it is new stuff. Music is like a drug for me... and putting it together in a cohesive bundle is a high.... and exposing this musical bundle of goodness to the masses... even a better high.. 😮 Looking for a release date somewhere around the 22nd."
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06/01/2024
Finally.... after a few months of sickness (even still, but slightly controlled), more months of busi-ness, and then procrastination, finally, I have released the latest PRN. 💁♀️ Big Big Train, Flower Kings, Arabs in Aspic, Monarch Trail, Emerald City Council, Samurai of Prog, Chronicles of Father Robin
05/05/2024
03/25/2024
Getting out a new show, hopefully this week. New means ALL new. Since I've been out of commission for awhile, my incoming music box has become quite filled. Some is from as far as 6 months back... so new, and semi-new? 😁 Anyway, it's all good. Music from the Flower Kings, Monarch Trail, Arabs in Aspic (ReRelease with new vocals), Emerald City Council, Samaura of Prog, and more.
03/06/2024
If you are an artist and have contacted me recently... or even in the past few months... I have been sick and haven't really checked or followed up on messages for a time, and they've gotten a bit piled up. I will soon be checking them soon, and following up, as I can. If you don't hear from me within the next week or so, please feel free to recontact, so that your message will appear at the top as "new". Thanks :D
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Prog Rock Nation is a Progressive Rock radio show that airs on KTAL-LP 101.5 FM, Las Cruces, NM USA on Saturday nights 8-10pm MST/MDT and again on Sunday mornings 3-5am MST/MDT. KTAL-LP also has a live stream https://tunein.com/radio/KTAL-LP-s299277/ or lccommunityradio.org/stream.html so you can listen no matter where in the World you are.
My introduction to Progressive Rock was via the Prog Rock single “Roundabout” by the iconic Prog band Yes, I was just around 8 or 9 yrs old at the time and fell in love with the guitar intro and that prominent trebby jazzy funky swirling bass line. After 40 and something odd years (closing in on 50 very very quickly), I am still not tired of hearing this song (preferably the “long” version, and NOT the single version at this time however :D ). Since then I’d been picking up Progressive Rock albums whenever or however I could. This usually meant flea markets, garage sales, and secondhand stores. As Prog was not my only interest as far as music, I accrued many other styles of music as well, but Prog makes up the majority of my music collection.
Although a generally quiet person, as I had a lifelong love for music as well as radio, I coerced myself into becoming a radio DJ and volunteered as such at a community radio station in Albuquerque, NM during the 80s. I did this for four or five years until I moved out of state.
This passion to play music for the masses never waned, however, and I started my podcast, Progkast, in February of 2016. Progkast continued until the last episode in August 2018. Progkast was an all independent podcast, playing music from unsigned, generally unknown Progressive Rock artists, or even artists on small record labels. Due to the nature of Progkast and the time involved for “discovery” of new artists, as well as waiting to hear back from artists for permission and downloads, I retired Progkast, at least for the time being, due to time constraints.
My goal at PRN is to indulge those that are already into Prog, as well as to pull in new listeners who may not be all so familiar with the genre. If you like Pink Floyd, Rush, or TransSiberian Orchestra, you will like some of what I play. As all of the above are Progressive Rock artists. You may have liked it all along and never knew it!
Jazz Fusion, Psychedelic, Experimental, Symphonic, Experimental... all these are subgenres or near genres (influencing Prog) of Progressive Rock. You’ll hear all of that from older artists, new artists, major label, small label, no label. In one show. It’s an all encompassing Progressive Rock show... all along the Progressive Rock spectrum, not just the dead center of the spectrum, if you don’t like one song, you will likely like the next. Prog is also known for taking awhile to like a song. So if you don’t really like it the first time... keep listening to the show, you may hear the song again.... eventually... and the second time you’ll be able to pick out the nuances, melody and be more into it... by the third time... you’ll be hooked :D Prog is known to do that to people. You don’t get sick of hearing a song by the third, fourth, or hundredth time listening... that’s when you are just getting into it :D
