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The Prog Rock Hour - Formerly Prog Rock Nation

Progressive Rock Show on KTAL-LP, 101.5 FM, Las Cruces, NM lccommunityradio.org I did this for four or five years until I moved out of state. 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. 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.

11/14/2025

Crossing my fingers, but feel pretty confident that the bug has been zapped, and TPRH WILL play tonight. We're looking at tonight at 10pm Pacific/11pm Mountain/12 midnight Central/1am Sunday morning Eastern/ 6am Londong at lccommunityradio.org/listen On tonight's show, Yes, Anekdoten, Lars Fredrik Frøislie (from Wobbler), Stackridge, Pryzme, Glass Hammer, Jethro Tull, and Tame Impala.

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11/12/2025

Due to circumstance beyond my control (a programming issue at the radio station), the first "The Prog Rock Hour", did not play last week. 😡I informed the station techs that it did not play. They said they would check the comp program for errors. Until then, cross your fingers, 🤞and let's hope it gets played this weekend (Friday night). 🙏lccommunityradio.org/listen

11/06/2025

Not me, but just a post I thought I'd share.

10/31/2025

As a lead up to my new, revised, PRN, "The Prog Rock Hour", I am once again hosting the (9th) annual Halloween Show on KTAL-LP https://www.lccommunityradio.org/listen.html This year's show will feature, Prog, Classic Rock, and Metal. That's tonight from 10pm US PT/11 MT/midnight CT/1am ET/ 6am Nov 1st UK/4pm Nov 1st Sydney time.

Next week, same time, same channel, is the new (unhosted, but curated and structured [not random]) "The Prog Rock Hour". Here's the playlist for the Halloween show:

Vincent Price - All Saint's Eve (poem)
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Alan Parsons Project - (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather
Deep Purple - Vincent Price
Vincent Price - Excerpt from Alice Cooper's "Devil's Food"
Megadeth - Prince of Darkness
Ozzy Osbourne - Bloodbath in Paradise
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
Claypool Lennon Delirium - Blood and Rockets
Opeth - The Devil's Orchard (Live)
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Eye - Book of the Dead

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10/30/2025

Hello everyone!! Some good news and a name change. First of all, I am doing a new show on KTAL-LP lccommunityradio.org just as before. Only now, at least for a time, I will be curating and arranging the show, but I won't be speaking so much. It's complicated, but doing the researching, talking, editing, and all of that was just too much work since I've been recording my show.

Since it is like a different show that PRN, I decided to give it a different name. The name will be The Prog Rock Hour. I will be changing this fb page within the next week or so, accordingly.

Rather than have an hour of random playing Prog Rock, I am going to put the show together so that there is some structure to the show. Again, I will be playing mainstream Prog, old and new, along with independent artists. The playlist will be available at www.spinitron.com/ktal live (I will explain how to get to the archived results later on). You can also play the show live directly from the spinitron website, as well as listen to 2 weeks of archived shows. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be posting these on mixcloud as well. Mixcloud allows 10 weeks of shows.

I wanted to get a show going again, and this was just the easiest way. It is really hard for me to not speak and talk about the great music and the great independent artists, but at the same time, this is an easier avenue for me and removes a lot of anxiety so I can get the shows out there, and get the music out there.

In the future, if this goes smoothly enough, I may even start doing the Progkast again, and airing the Progkast as well. That one, even more so, demands a talking DJ! But lets just start with small steps,.. lol. As you'll recall, I removed my show from ktal in late 2023, but continues to occasionally upload the show to Mixcloud. Then in August 2024 I got pretty bad Covid, and stopped doing both Prog Rock Nation and Progkast. Besides the Halloween show in 2024, I hadn't done either show since. After deciding to do a Halloween show this year, I felt that I could do an "unhosted" curated show at the least, made a show proposal, and it was accepted, to begin Friday, November 7th from 11pm to midnight.

The Halloween show is titled "Megalithic Rock Halloween" as I play a bit of Classic Rock and Metal in this one (more than usual), and will be playing in the same time slot on Halloween night Oct 31st.

Please also check out past Progkast (the all independent podcast) shows on Youtube.com/

Community Radio for Las Cruces, New Mexico!101.5 FM

10/19/2025

Hey ya'll, so good news, bad news. The good news is that I am doing the 9th annual Halloween show on KTAL-LP 101.5 FM in Las Cruces ( lccommunityradio.org ) Halloween night. The bad news is that I there is only one Prog song on it. But rest assured, I am NOT playing the popular songs you always hear on Halloween. That is, NOT The Classics IV - Spooky, NOT Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon", and NOT the Cyipt Kickers "Monster Mash! I AM playing Prog, Classic Rock, and Metal for one hour. The album deep tracks that you probably never even thought of. That's 11pm-12am midnight on KTAL - Mountain Time - October 31st.

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)

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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.