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About The Rogues' Gallery

Specializing in New Releases Every Week!

The best Internet Radio podcast for NEW progressive rock music!
Schedule: Every Thursday from 8 PM - 12 AM Pacific Time on The Dividing Line

 

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The Dividing Line's "The Rogues’ Gallery" started its run back in May 2003 and was the first actual Podcast featuring new progressive rock every week! Listeners from all over the world tune in specifically to hear the latest progressive rock releases. The Rogues' Gallery has established itself as the most popular outlet for progressive artists and labels seeking to release new material. 

Frans widens the appeal and definition of Progressive Rock to include all emerging and related genres, sometimes with wondrous labels such as "post-prog," "exo-prog," and any number of bizarre variants. "Out with the old, in with the new" is the motto, so this progressive rock podcast will continue where the Neo-Progressive Rock genre left off, and will tackle a large field of progressive music. Don't expect a lot of classic prog on this show. Instead, your host, Frans Keylard, will scour the globe for new and exciting bands to spotlight from all over the world, and not just bands from his home base in Seattle, Washington.

Frans Keylard - Rogues' Gallery - Progressive Rock and lots more!Frans Keylard originally hails from The Netherlands and grew up listening to FM pirate radio stations both transmitting from land, and off the coast in international waters from converted fishing trawlers. These stations carried names such as Radio Veronica, Radio Caroline, and Radio Mi Amigo. Those stations existed because of the restricted broadcasting regulations only permitting state-controlled radio. In the US there were university stations in the 70s that carried lots of progressive rock, but those no longer carry that same type of programming. Legendary DJs like Tommy Vance, who had a large degree of creative control over their content are gone. Who will be the next champions to stand up and challenge apathetic FM programming? The wide acceptance of portable music players such as the iPod, cars with MP3 capabilities, and audiophile PCs have made the Internet a viable alternative to discovering new music. When asked what drew Frans Keylard to the Dividing Line, he answered: "The Dividing Line is the most popular Internet Progressive Rock station in the world, just look at the line-up of DJ and the variety of programming! I love that that this station has an environment and audience who really want to join me on a journey of discovery. There's so much great new Progressive Rock in various guises that never gets heard, so I will try to uncover more every week. Progressive rock is my starting point, but there's lots of progressive inspired music out there as well! The Dividing Line listeners are frighteningly well-informed, highly engaged, and are willing to invest time in the music orphaned by FM radio. When you add the chat room interactivity with other listeners and bands, it becomes clear that this is what radio has evolved into."

Frans intends to locate and play several new artists every week. The following artists are more or less a guideline: Marillion, all "related" bands such as Porcupine Tree, Blackfield (and all Steven Wilson projects), Kino, Transatlantic, Iris, Postmankind, Aziz, Wishing Tree, h Natural, etc. That's just the start, because the reach of the show goes far beyond those artists.

Perhaps it's easier to see a sampling of some of the bands Frans has played in 2007 alone (yes, he's been VERY busy):
 
Abigail’s Ghost Age of Nemesis Aghora Agua de Annique
A-ha Alan Parsons Project Allen & Lande Amaran’s Plight
Ambeon Amplifier Anathema Antimatter
Apocalyptica Arjen Anthony Lucassen Avantasia Avenged Sevenfold
Awake Ayreon Aziz Beardfish
Big Big Train Blackfield Camel Carptree
Chain Chroma Key Coheed & Cambria Cooper Hill
Daryl Stuermer Days Between Stations Devin Townsend Dial
Djam Karet Dream Theater Elias Kahila ELO
Emilie Autumn Evergrey Fates Warning Fernwood
Frost* Fuzz Beloved Gazpacho Ghost Circus
h Natural Hidria Spacefolk His Infernal Majesty (HIM) Imogene
IQ Iris Ixion IZZ
Jeff Lynne Kamelot Katatonia Keane
Khallice Kingfisher Sky Kino Knight Area
Lana Lane Little Atlas Lyranthe Magic Pie
Marillion Masterplan Mind’s Eye Nightwish
No-Man O.S.I. Odin Dragonfly Pagan's Mind
Planet X Porcupine Tree Portal Postmankind
Premiata Forneria Marconi Queensryche Retrospective Ritual
Riverside RPWL Saga Sieges Even
Singularity Star One Steven Wilson Stream of Passion
Sun Caged Sylvan Symphony X The Aurora Project
The Blue Nile The Church The Flower Kings The Gathering
The Gourishankar The Noun The Pineapple Thief The Reasoning
The Tangent The Third Ending The Watch Thought Chamber
Three / Joey Eppard Threshold Tinyfish Transatlantic
Trettioariga Kriget Twinspirits Vanden Plas Via Mistica
Wishing Tree

There will be plenty of debuts and full-on CD listening parties or demos every week, so there's always something interesting in the Rogues' Gallery! Subscribe to it as a podcast and automatically download the show to your PC or portable player (iPod, Zen, iRiver, etc.) every week! The podcast list contains around 30 older shows in case you missed something, and that's as much storage space as I have available!

You will always find something new, something familiar, something loved, and something old, but new to you, so relax, kick back, and let Frans do the channel surfing for you! This show covers more than strictly Progressive Rock, so beware the gear changes, they can be a b!t@#!!

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