27 July 2009

Storms caused a power outage in the area. The UPSes allowed a graceful shutdown of all servers, but the outage lasted for about 6 hours.

11 July 2009

All changes have been completed. PROG.FM now supports 50 128k streams (25 on  the local server and 25 on the relay) and 50 56k streams and has capacity for many more. Please report anything that is not working for you.

11 July 2009

I will be making some changes on the SAM server later today, which should take about an hour of downtime.

4 July 2009

Happy 4th of July!

Most of the upgrades are done, but things are still settling. I'm still fixing some settings and doing some updates here and there, so access will be iffy during the rest of this weekend.

PLEASE NOTE that the stream URLs have changed and if you have any bookmarked, please update them! 

1 July 2009

During the upcoming holiday weekend, I will attempt  to do some upgrades to the systems and network here.  Firstly, I will be putting the entire server rack on two UPS battery backup units; and secondly I will be migrating to the Verizon FIOS network, which will provide much higher upstream bandwidth and hopefully will allow more listener streams.

Thus please be aware that there will likely be some system downtime over the July 3-5 weekend.

28 April 2009

The ROSfest tickets are sold. See you all at the show! If anyone wants to meet up, I will be in C108/C109 and I'll have my N810 to check messages again during the show like I did last year.

Also some new music has been added.

Jolly, a prog quartet from Brooklyn, NY kindly sent us their EP; Patrick Moraz kindly sent us his new album, Change of Space. Also added were the She rock opera by Clive Nolan's project Caamora, an album by Satellite side-project Peter Pan; and thanks to Glass Onyon PR for sending us Oxygene 8's album, Freak of Chance.

10 April 2009

I am selling 2 Rosfest 2009 tickets for Saturday and Sunday shows. Great center seats C110 and C111. Face value US$110 per set of tickets. Would prefer to sell together. Please email me if you are interested.

12 February 2009

Strong winds today have been causing intermittent power outages. To prevent damage to the servers, they have been shut down until this evening. Sorry for the inconvenience.

29 January 2009

The following new artists and music have been recently added. There's quite a few so I can't post any reviews this time around, but look for some in the future.

Thanks to all the artists who submitted their work!

3rdegree (USA), Abel Ganz (UK), DeeExpus Project (UK), Dialeto (Brazil), Duty Free Area (Italy), Godsticks (UK), Negus (Canada), Night WinD (Russia), Pinnacle (USA), and Tetrafusion (USA).

As usual, more coming soon!

21 December 2008

Happy Holidays from PROG.FM. As is tradition, PROG.FM will sprinkle the stream with a few holiday classics, prog rock style. Enjoy!

29 October 2008

PROG.FM server maintenance is planned for the upcoming weekend between Saturday 1 Nov and Sunday 2 Nov. Expect several hours of downtime as some servers are being migrated to new hardware.

15 September 2008

Pink Floyd founding member and keyboardist Richard Wright passed away today at age 65 from a short battle with cancer. To honor Richard, we will be streaming additional Pink Floyd selections throughout the evening. 

9 September 2008

Sorry for the downtime today. Severe weather is causing power problems across our area and may continue through the day.

6 September 2008

If you were at 3RP you know what an awesome show it was! It's already shaping up to be a great show in 2009 with Phideaux and Edensong already on the bill. 

I've been adding more music that has been piling up. I still have some unopened CD's from ROSfest, several CD's sent to me by artists and more stuff I got at 3RP to add.

'This is the story so far...'

From 3RP I've added the debut albums from Kalon and The Mandrake Project. Both bands were performers at this year's 3RP. They both have an art rock and RIO vibe to them, and feature strings and ethnic percussion.

Persephone's Dream and Edensong both had vendor tables at 3RP and so I got Persephone's latest CD and Edensong's debut as well.  Both are very impressive works.

I was also on a Japanese kick, so I also added Magdalena and Naikaku. Some of you may recognize Magdalena's lead singer Megumi Tokuhisa from Teru's Symphonia, both symphonic bands. Naikaku, however, is a blistering hard prog/fusion act with lots of dueling flutes and tight guitar riffs.

I also got Polish Symphonic Metal ensemble Osada Vida's latest, a clever concept album entitled The Body Parts Party.

I also added artist submissions, including John Huldt, Ian Tescee, Cathedral, and Principles of Uncertainty.

John Huldt is a talented guitar virtuoso who demonstrates his ability to play progressive rock, fusion, blues, jazz and everything in between! The guy is simply amazing. Satriani, Vai and Eric Johnson fans take note!

I remember hearing Ian Tescee's Continua on WFMU's Synthetic Pleasure many years ago. I was floored when I opened a nondescript envelope and saw his latest CD. Ian continues his masterful electronic work in this concept CD about travel to the red planet, called A Traveler's Guide to Mars. Kind thanks to Ruthe at CSC for the submission.

Symphonic late 70's prog ensemble Cathedral returns with a new album called The Bridge from which a few cuts were submitted by new guitar man David Doig.

And lastly, some amazing new stuff from Principles of Uncertainty. PoU is the brainchild of Jeff Storm, who wrote and performed the debut EP entitled Familiar in the Abstract. There's a definite early-period Rush feel to his work but it's also very unique and original.

Thanks to everyone who's been submitting work. I still have a lot more stuff to add.

Last but not least, I will be performing major upgrades to the PROG.FM servers in the very near future, so stay tuned for more updates.

22 August 2008

3RP weekend is upon us. With my vision pretty much restored, I am ready to make the trip and finally enjoy another weekend of excellent music. I will be sitting in E4 or E5 if anyone wants to meet up. As usual, I'll have an array of gadgets with me to check email and stream prog.fm to whatever remote reaches of the planet I happen to be in :)

20 July 2008

I have begun adding more music.

So far, I've added some excellent new music by Cary Clouser, Ice, Vutdevuk, Albion and Moth Vellum.

Cary is the multitalented singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumental frontman for Canadian progrock tribute band, Oracle.  Cary kindly sent in his solo demo called Finger Paintings.

Vutdevuk is the prog rock pen name of Brady Arnold, who is also an accomplished songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He provided several tracks from his discography.

Ice and Albion are neo-progressive bands from the Netherlands and Poland, respectively. Ice is squarely in the Marillion/Fish camp and Albion is a female-fronted ensemble that will easily appeal to fans of Karnateka and Magenta.

Also thanks to Moth Vellum for sending their new debut self-titled CD. This album could have easily been recorded in the mid-70's but it's amazingly crisp and well-produced. Even the album artwork screams "prog!" Recommended for fans of symphonic Yes, Genesis and Starcastle.