Best Prog Report Podcasts (2025)

Always a pleasure to have Steve Howe on the podcast. The Yes guitarist joins me this time to discuss a couple of reissues from his solo back catalogue; “Natural Timbre” and “Portraits of Bob Dylan”. The former being an all acoustic record, and the latter being, as you may have inferred, a Dylan covers album. It was a nice excuse to talk about Dylan…

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Prog Takes - Modern Prog is better than Classic Prog! 14:39

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Welcome to our new Prog Report series called Prog Takes. In this episode, Roie and Kyle debate whether modern prog is actually better than classic prog? What do you think?By The Prog Report

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Prog Takes - Vinyl Is Overpriced Nostalgia! 16:06

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Welcome to our new Prog Report series called Prog Takes. In this episode, Roie and Kyle debate if vinyl is just overpriced nostalgia or something that should be valued? What do you think?By The Prog Report

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New Music Reaction: Lunatic Soul, Gazpacho, Moron Police, JackTheJoker, Asymmetric Universe, Leprous 35:36

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Reacting to new music from Lunatic Soul, Gazpacho, Moron Police, JackTheJoker, Asymmetric Universe, and Leprous. Host: Roie Avin Panel: Vic Giol, Daniel Levy, Kyle FagalaBy The Prog Report

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Tommy Rogers and Dan Briggs from Between the Buried and Me on their new album 'The Blue Nowhere' 25:38

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Tommy Rogers and Dan Briggs from Between the Buried and Me talk about their new album 'The Blue Nowhere,' songwriting, touring, and more. 'The Blue Nowhere' is out on Sept. 12th. 2025By The Prog Report

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Feeder’s Grant Nicholas on “Comfort In Sound” 38:17

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The past 3 decades have brought their share of ups and downs for Feeder. They’ve enjoyed 11 top ten albums, and various hit singles, but had to weather the tragic loss of drummer Jon Lee in January 2002. It was against this backdrop that frontman Grant Nicholas returned to studio alongside bassist Taka Hirose to produce Feeder’s most poignant and l…

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James LaBrie on the Dream Theater 40th Anniversary & Parasomnia Tours 31:13

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Dream Theater singer James LaBrie joins the podcast to talk about the 40th Anniversary Tour, working with Mike Portnoy again, the Parasomnia comic, Ozzy and more.By The Prog Report

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Arjen Lucassen on his latest solo album 'Songs No One Will Hear' 20:56

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The multi-talented Arjen Anthony Lucassen returns to talk about his latest solo album 'Songs No One Will Hear', the upcoming 30th Anniversary of Ayreon, and more.By The Prog Report

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Steve Rothery (Marillion) 33:41

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Steve Rothery is a founding member of one of my all time favourite bands, Marillion. Despite various personnel changes in the early years of the band, Marillion have maintained a stable line-up for the past 36 years. One of the keys to their ongoing unity is surely their tolerance for band members to indulge in side-projects, and Rothery is about t…

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238: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 2:21

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A farewell to a fun 10 years. Also, I should have tested it better. :) In the audio I got the numbers wrong. Doh! This is episode 238, not 237. Oh well. I'll still be around, of course, at: pythontest.com - where I write about developing software with tests pythonbytes.fm - Python news and headlines, delivered directly to your earbuds Thanks for al…

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237: FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez 36:26

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In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses deployment challenges small teams face. He shares his transition from open-source to startup founder, focusing on simplifying deployment against the com…

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Steve Rothery joins the podcast to talk about his new project Bioscope with Thorsten Quaeschning, and catch us up on Marillion. 16:27

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Steve Rothery joins the podcast to talk about his new project Bioscope with Thorsten Quaeschning, and catch us up on Marillion.By The Prog Report

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Quid Prog Quo - Native Construct and Ephrat - Bands with only one album 28:50

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Roie and Notes (from the Notes Reviews YouTube channel) check out albums by bands with only one album - Ephrat's 'No One's Words' and Native Construct's 'Quiet World'. What do you think of these albums?By The Prog Report

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236: Git Tips for Testing - Adam Johnson 19:45

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In this episode, host Brian Okken and guest Adam Johnson explore essential Git features, highlighted by Adam's updated book, "Boost Your Git DX." Key topics include "cherry picking" for selective commits "git stash" for managing in-progress work "git diff", and specifically its `--name-only` flag, which provides a streamlined method for developers …

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Richard Hawley on “Coles Corner” 20th Anniversary 54:11

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This summer sees the release of an expanded edition of Richard Hawley’s breakthrough masterpiece “Coles Corner” with an accompanying tour. Richard joins me for an epic chat about the making the record, his family history, his prodigious session work, the closing of the beloved Sheffield Leadmill, and working (remotely) with Hank Marvin. Enjoy. Find…

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Reaction: New Music from BEAT, Karnivool, Asymmetric Universe, BTBAM, Arjen Lucassen, Royal Sorrow 26:07

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We react to new music from BEAT, Karnivool, Asymmetric Universe, BTBAM, Arjen Lucassen, and Royal Sorrow Host: Roie Avin Panel: Vic and JeremyBy The Prog Report

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Prog Takes - Is Selling Out A Bad Thing? 21:26

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Welcome to our new Prog Report series called Prog Takes. In this first episode, Roie and Kyle debate what is selling out, and if it is bad thing or just a band evolving? What do you think?By The Prog Report

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235: pytest-django - Adam Johnson 19:33

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In this episode, special guest Adam Johnson joins the show and examines pytest-django, a popular plugin among Django developers. He highlights its advantages over the built-in unittest framework, including improved test management and debugging. Adam addresses transition challenges, evolving fixture practices, and offers tips for optimizing test pe…

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Styx guitarist and producer Will Evankovich talks about the new album Circling From Above and more. 21:42

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Styx guitarist, songwriter, and producer Will Evankovich talks about the new album Circling From Above, his history with the band, how he joined, touring, and more.By The Prog Report

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Ben Kweller 45:56

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On February 27th 2023 Ben Kweller received the worst phone call imaginable. His 16 year old son Dorian had died in a car accident. An oncoming truck had veered into Dorian’s lane and a downed tree had gone through his windscreen as he swerved over. Dorian himself was a budding musician, releasing music under the name Zev, and had been due to tour w…

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Jakko Jakszyk talks about his new solo album Son of Glen, King Crimson and more. (Interview) 26:25

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Guitarist/vocalist Jakko Jakszyk joins Roie Avin and Geoff Bailie to talk about his new solo album Son of Glen, how his book inspired the new music, King Crimson, and more. Son of Glen is out on June 27th, 2025.By The Prog Report

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Avkrvst - Waving at the Sky (Interview) 19:20

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Simon Bergseth and Martin Utby of Avkrvst join the podcast to chat about their new album 'Waving At The Sky, which is out on June 13th, working with Ross Jennings, playing live, and more.By The Prog Report

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Reaction: New music from Styx, Big Wreck, Edensong, Ihlo, Nad Sylvan, and Avkrvst. 30:01

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Roie, Vic, and Jeremy check out new music from Styx, Big Wreck, Edensong, Ihlo, Nad Sylvan, and Avkrvst.By The Prog Report

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Photographer Tom Sheehan on Oasis, Weller, Springsteen and more. 44:22

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Tom Sheehan was born in Camberwell, South London. He was an in-house photographer for CBS Records in the 70s, and went on to be the chief photographer for Melody Maker. He enjoyed long-term working relationships with the likes of REM, The Cure, Manic Street Preachers, and Oasis, the subject of a new book of Tom’s work entitled “Roll With It: Oasis …

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Drummer Mark Zonder on the new A-Z album 'A2Z2' (Interview) 24:11

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Drummer Mark Zonder (Fates Warning, Warlord) returns to talk about the second A-Z album 'A2Z2', working with Ray Alder again, Nick Van Dyke from Redemption and more. The A-Z album is out on June 6th, 2025.By The Prog Report

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234: pytest-metadata - provides access to test session metadata 6:56

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pytest-metadata is described as a plugin for pytest that provides access to test session metadata. That is such a humble description for such a massively useful plugin. If you're already using pytest-html, you have pytest-metadata already installed, as pytest-metadata is one of the dependencies for pytest-html. However, pytest-metadata is very usef…

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Derek Shulman (Gentle Giant) Interview - Playing The Fool Live Reissue 26:20

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Derek Shulman returns to the podcast to talk about the new Gentle Giant 'Playing The Fool' The Complete Live Experience’ Reissue, signing Dream Theater and Pantera, and more.By The Prog Report

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233: pytest-check - allow multiple failures per test 8:37

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pytest-check is a pytest plugin that allows multiple failures per test. Normally, a test function will fail and stop running with the first failed assert. That's totally fine for tons of kinds of software tests. However, there are times where you'd like to check more than one thing, and you'd really like to know the results of each check, even if o…

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Reaction: New music from Katatonia, Jakko Jakszyk, Avkrvst, Haken, A-Z, and Lux Terminus! 30:50

5M ago30:50

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Roie, Vic, and Dan check out new music from Katatonia, Jakko Jakszyk, Avkrvst, Haken, A-Z, and Lux Terminus.By The Prog Report

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Nels Cline (Wilco) 53:58

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Nels Cline was born in California in January 1956. He started played guitar at the age of 12 and his early career is fairly jazz-based, before stretching into other directions. He has played guitar for Wilco, one of my favourite bands in the world, since 2004. He has a new solo album out on Blue Note Records entitled “Consentrik Quartet”, featuring…

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232: The role of AI in software testing - Anthony Shaw 56:48

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AI is helping people write code. Tests are one of those things that some people don't like to write. Can AI play a role in creating automated software tests? Well, yes. But it's a nuanced yes. Anthony Shaw comes on the show to discuss the topic and try to get AI to write some test for my very own cards project. We discuss: The promise of AI writing…