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12/12/2025

Congratulations Andy Snitzer. #2 song on the 2025 Mediabase Smooth Jazz year end chart! Mixed by David Mann.Hear here with the link in comments bellow.

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12/07/2025

When ever I see something about Adam Yauch I am compelled to send some positive energy and sincere gratitude. He was one of my "early adopters". Working with him, the rest of the band, and Mario C on "Hello Nasty" exponentially increased my professional credibility. By the time the album was approved for production, I had tweaked, mastered, remastered or re-layered half the album. Unlike other albums that I edited together for Howie Weinberg, they actually chose to credit me on the album for everything I had done! Compiling and cutting "show vinyl" (since the band always kept it real onstage) for their next 2 tours after, helped me financially as well. I also edited together "Paul's Boutique", one of my first and (still to this day) challenging gigs (6 producers, none of which wanted to sit and assemble the album with me). I also got to assemble "The Tibetan Freedom Concerts" CD-almost as challenging since there was no audience applause reel to make it continuous. Thank you Howie Weinberg Beastie Boys , Mario Caldato Jr. Eternal hugs to Adam and his family

Adam Yauch walked off a Tokyo stage in 1994, still sweating from a Beastie Boys show, and told his bandmates they were about to change everything because he refused to keep performing anger and mockery in a world that clearly needed something better from them.
He had spent years building a reputation as the loudest, wildest force in rap rock. MCA’s growl drove the Beastie Boys sound. He toured nonstop. He drank too much. He fought too often. He played the role of cartoon chaos because audiences expected it. But on that night in Tokyo he saw fans mimicking behavior he no longer believed in. He watched kids repeat lines he wrote as jokes. He felt a shift inside him that refused to stay quiet.
Yauch began studying Tibetan Buddhism. He sat for hours in silence, writing thoughts in a small notebook he carried everywhere. When the band recorded Ill Communication, he pushed for tenderness inside the noise. He wrote Sure Shot with a line America had never heard from a Beastie Boy: I want to say a little something that’s long overdue about the respect I owe women. His bandmates stared at him in the studio. MCA had just turned the group’s identity on its axis.
He expanded that change far beyond music.
In 1996 he founded the Milarepa Fund from a small apartment desk with stacks of printed flyers and a cheap fax machine. He organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts, one of the largest activist music events in history. One hundred thousand people filled Golden Gate Park for the first show. Yauch stood backstage, quiet and focused, watching the cause he built grow into a global movement.
He never announced his transformation with grand speeches. He acted.
He donated anonymously.
He called organizers himself.
He read Buddhist texts on tour buses while others slept.
He treated activism as responsibility, not branding.
As the Beastie Boys evolved, he became the band’s center of gravity. He directed music videos under the name Nathaniel Hornblower. He learned film editing programs on his own computer. He built Oscilloscope Laboratories from scratch and turned it into a respected independent production house. Directors said he worked like a man who believed art should lift people, not just impress them.
Then illness arrived. Parotid cancer. Yauch handled it with the same calm discipline he brought to everything else. He stepped back from performing. He wrote when he could. He meditated often. He protected his privacy fiercely. When he passed in 2012, artists across genres described the same thing. He had changed the culture not by shouting, but by shifting the meaning of strength.
Adam Yauch’s life followed an arc few artists ever travel.
He began as a force of wild energy and became a force of conscience, proving that evolution is its own kind of courage and that a voice born in rebellion can grow into a voice the world actually needs.

11/19/2025

Deadwing? Breakthrough album? Hmmmm It may have charted higher, but "In Absentia" will always be the Breakthrough album IMO. See Picture below from the day Steven and I mastered it.

With subs copies on their way, here's the cover reveal for Prog 165, which is on sale this Friday, November 21 (December 19 for the US).

We tell the story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing, as the album celebrates its 20th anniversary. And what an intriguing story it is, of a UK band signed to a major US label with the idea of breaking progressive music on a commercial scale. Add in the ghostly script to an unmade movie, stellar musicians and a groundbreaking tour with their mates Opeth… and as for the st*****rs – well, you’ll have to read about that for yourselves...

Elsewhere in this issue, we say a sad farewell to Moody Blues bassist John Lodge, who passed away last month; Peter Hammill unpicks his solo years on Charisma and Virgin Record for us; guitarist Steve Morse brings tales of Dixie Dregs, Kansas, Deep Purple, Flying Colors and more to the table; and Gazpacho, Crown Lands, Atomic Rooster, Cardiacs, Utopia Strong, Cate Le Bon, Barry Palmer and Amorphis all discuss their latest releases.

This issue arrives with our Icons Of Prog calendar, featuring Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, The Nice and more, a Porcupine Tree art print, a Rush eBook and Jacob Holm-Lupo has curated a fantastic White Willow sampler.

Prog 165, on sale this Friday, November 21.

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10/09/2025

Happy 1st birthday to Charlotte Wessels "Obsession". Voted Best debut album-2024 at The Progspace. Now, the deluxe version is ready for the world with added tasty bits-including a new single featuring Asger from VOLA, and live tracks.

The Obsession (Digital Deluxe) will be out October 24th. Pre-save now: https://orcd.co/zbvdke7

We just celebrated the one-year anniversary of The Obsession, and though new adventures are already on the horizon, this album still has more stories to tell.

On October 24th, The Obsession (Digital Deluxe) will be released on all streaming platforms through Na**lm Records!

The release will be preceded by the single “Backup Plan” feat. of on October 22nd. This track was originally written and recorded for The Obsession, but something about it felt incomplete - until we toured with VOLA and the missing piece of the puzzle revealed itself. Huge thanks to Asger for taking the song to another level with an incredible performance.

The Deluxe edition also includes a dreamy new version of “Dopamine” feat. , the extended version of "Breathe;" plus three live recordings from our 2025 performance! See the full tracklist below.

You can pre-save The Obsession (Digital Deluxe) now. https://orcd.co/zbvdke7

1. Chasing Sunsets
2. Dopamine Feat. Simone Simons
3. The Exorcism
4. Soulstice
5. The Crying Room
6. Ode To The West Wind Feat. Alissa White-Gluz
7. Serpentine
8. Praise
9. All You Are
10. Vigor And Valor
11. Breathe; Extended
12. Soft Revolution (2024)
13. Backup Plan Feat. Asger Mygind
14. Dopamine - Dreamscape Version Feat. Simone Simons
15. The Crying Room - Live at Dynamo Metalfest
16. Soft Revolution - Live at Dynamo Metalfest
17. The Exorcism - Live at Dynamo Metalfest

10/07/2025

Such a great track! Mixed by Johnny Karkazis

For your Grammy consideration 🖤
Thank you to those who have supported WHY.
📸 Chase Warren

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09/22/2025

Well, if you are going to quote me and post my pic, I will have to share it, along with a link in the comments to hear it..... Congratulations on your album release The Damned Few! mixed by Guido Aalbers

09/22/2025

Happy 1st Birthday to Charlotte Wessels "The Obsession" Album. "Debut Album of the Year" 2024 from The Progspace. Mixed by Guido Aalbers

09/09/2025

To all my Indiana friends- come see me this Saturday!