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6/20/23 - Upcoming Guests
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Violinist David Cross will join us to talk about his excellent band that will be getting ready for some concert dates that will kick off in Poland on 8/26/23 and continue throughout the year and carrying over into 2024 with excellent dates featured throughout Poland! The David Cross Band will be also performing at the upcoming Summers End Festival in Chepstow, Wales, UK on 10/7/23. As you heard in our spotlight a few weeks back, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of
the
release of the legendary King Crimson album "Larks' Tongues in
Aspic", the fifth studio album from the iconic band, and quite
possible one of the most revered incarnations of the top tier
progressive rock act. King Crimson's third incarnation, featured
co-founder and guitarist Robert Fripp along with four new members:
bass guitarist and vocalist John Wetton, violinist and keyboardist
David Cross, percussionist Jamie Muir, and drummer Bill Bruford. It
became a key album in the band's evolution, drawing on Eastern
European classical music and European free improvisation as central
influences. Don't miss this upcoming visit. If you have questions you
want us to cover, email us here
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A French band that has been garnering a LOT of attention on the program over the last 3 years has slowly become your host's favorite in the group Bend The Future. They have returned in 2023 with an excellent new offering titled Sounds So Wrong from the Tonzonen Records label. Founded in January 2019, Bend the Future is a progressive rock band based in Grenoble, France. Identified generally by their odd-time-scaled tunes, they incorporate elements of '70s progressive rock, jazz, funk along with Eastern European music in their sound. Their 2021 release without notice was a huge buzz as it spent several weeks in the WEEKLYTOP20 and would later be voted the #44 album by our listeners in The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100 Of 2021. The band will join us to talk about their new album that has made a lot of headway on the charts this year along with recent live music as well!
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We've also got some great guests to follow such as The Muffins drummer Paul Sears; Beijing, China based band Ou; Rick Henry of our excellent radio affiliate House Of Prog Radio; keyboardist Patrick Strawser and more to come!
5/20/23 - Listener Poll Update
Well...you asked, and we answered! Visit the online poll located here. Every week, our radio program gets countless emails from our incredible audience from all four corners of the globe. Our correspondence ranges from:
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The weekly 'Ask Us Anything' spotlight emails (My favorite)
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Listeners curiosity about certain eras of the radio program (We all love this one)
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Production questions & broadcast equipment detail and/or software opinions
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Well known & obscure album requests (especially out of print albums)
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New album suggestions/requests
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Top five or more 'favorite new releases' audience lists (Tom's favorite)
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Vinyl vaults suggestions
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Vintage radio program requests from the archives (Grace's favorite)
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Interviewee requests for North 13th Studios
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Thematic program suggestions
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Progressive rock trivia
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Flashback stories of your own that may include our show (Jack's Favorite)
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More storytelling requests from Tom's radio show history (Fan's favorite for example, the strangest/scariest moments located at https://youtube.com/gagliarchives )
Over the last five years
alone, we have gotten so many great ideas from you, our amazing audience
& supporters. During the pandemic alone, the amount of emails/messages
was mind boggling. We can't lie, it was overwhelming. Myself, along with
the rest of the staffers virtually, had to come up with an organized
system on how to categorize the correspondence because some of the topics
were so amazingly cool and one of a kind, we started compiling them for
Tom & Jack to choose from. But your fearless leader & host decided
to let YOU decide on what the next thematic program should be about in
this first half of 2023's broadcast schedule.
Here are just some of the ideas we have taken from our audience with Tom's blessing with more polls to come in the up and coming weeks. Vote now for some of these possible program ideas. And in the meantime, don't hesitate to keep your amazing emails of requests coming in! Including your current top lists, thematic program suggestions for the future, and general music requests! YOU KEEP US GOING WITH THESE EMAILS!! Keep up the great work! It's these items that keep our weekly program production motivated in a really big way. Here are your voting choices:
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A Monthly Weekly Top 20 Radio Show: Once a month like you would hear on mainstream radio
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Thematic Special Edition: A Look At Progressive Rock In South America
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Thematic Special Edition: A GPRN Top 100 of a listener picked year from before the programs existence. (I.E. the 1970's, 1980's)
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The 'Ask Us Anything' Show: A program of just music/radio show correspondence from our listeners that we have compiled over the years. Some of you requested for us to also post it on our https://youtube.com/gagliarchives as well
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Thematic Special Edition: - A Look Back On All The GPRN's #2 albums in The Top 100
So visit the online poll located here or email us directly with your choices or even additions for future voting at gagliarchives at comcast dot net and we WILL respond back. Remember as always that our regular 'Ask Us Anything' emails/letters that are read during our first set of the program is an INSTANT prize winner. If we choose your email, be sure to then send us your physical address or if you choose a download, we can send that as well! Check out our QR code as well above!
2/19/23 - RCBC Radio Is No More....
Just
recently we learned that the remaining ashes of what was 88.9FM WBZC as it
evolved into internet radio only RCBC Radio, is no longer in existence.
The RCBC Radio stream went dead at the beginning of 2023 almost five years
to its creation. This comes literally five years after the original, and
stunning shut down of our beloved 88.9FM/95.1FM/100.7FM WBZC in Pemberton,
New Jersey.
No press release, no phone calls, no documented end chapter for what was
the remaining white dwarf star core of the one time red g
iant
that was Z889. I was sad to see it fade into obscurity as we all know your
loyal weekly host, holds the radio station's legacy & memories very
close to the core of what is the gagliarchives Radio Program.
So we bid a fond farewell to the very young, and now defunct RCBC Radio channel that only seemed to be created after the thousands upon thousands feigned their outrage that a beloved FM radio station after 23 years of service went silent with no forewarning or discussion to try to save the beloved south Jersey broadcasting icon. Tom recently said something that stuck in our crew's mind. Z889FM is now officially dead.
And while Jason Varga worked his tail off in keeping the new beacon lit, he could only have done so much. They were tying our hands more and more as the early months of this 'radio evolution' of what was the Z. But much like our beloved radio station, they have now silenced RCBC Radio. While I was never there to do production work or program editing, it was quite prevalent on the face of your Saturday night progressive rock radio warrior that an era had truly to come to an end. The sting of that is on top of the pain of seeing the one time Pemberton location of where Z889 once stood turn into an abandoned, decrepit and almost haunting shell of how it once stood.
As Tom recently said after a quiet pause on the topic "....there are, and will be ghosts there for years to come. That place was an existential 'home' for me. I dream of it at least two to three times a week. The one time jewel of a small two year college that its equipment alone would have had one thinking that Temple University moved to the Pine Barrens. Farewell, old friend."
02/18/23 - Our New Podcast Sites & Our New Affiliates..............
We are proud to announce the launching of our new Podcast partner in Spreaker. Spreaker is a division of iHeart Radio and it truly makes getting out your product in a seamless way. Whether you are producing your passion project or growing a podcast business, they make it your one-stop show for podcast hosting, creation, distribution, and monetization. We are so proud to finally quell the requests from an endless list of loyal listeners over the years, wanting to hear the program at their request. Well now you can through so many different outlets. Just following our broadcast weekend, you'll be able to tune in at your leisure. Here are the current sources you can check out our programs:
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JioSaavn - For our growing audience in India!
02/15/23 - The Future Guest List Builds Take III.......................... Our upcoming guests to join us in our virtual North 13 Studios in 2023 will continue to grow and have already started with a bang!
Check out some of the formulations & ideas brewing below coming from the halls of Asylum & North 13th Studios.....
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Coming relatively soon on gagliarchives, a most anticipated guest who isn't in a progressive rock band or project or supergroup! Well, not yet at least. It's a concept that your host Tom has wanted to do for quite some time while formulating a 'thematic' style he creates a few times a year to just take a break from the bustle of the normal chronological history formula where the show mixes anniversaries, birthday salutes & new world premiere releases. 2020 & 2021's
forced isolation & having only those
you love & the south Jersey star packed night sky, sparked the
idea of a true astronomy styled musical program in a conceptual show
form where Tom & Jack spotlight genre pieces that celebrate the
outer heavens and the outer reaches of science, and even science
fiction. For this program, Tom will feature albums like Tangerine
Dream's Alpha Centauri, Lancaster
& Lumley's Marscape, Rick Wakeman & The English Rock
Ensemble's recent release that was also a former #1 in the WEEKLYTOP20
last year, The Red Planet and so much more. But Tom also wanted
to have a particular guest join the thematic program as well. Tom had
explained over the course of the past year intermittently on the show
for his heavy interest on his favorite futurist, author, science
fiction writer, and true astronomy deep thinking analyst he can't get
enough of, in the great John Michael Godier. John is also the host of
the wonderful interview/debate program on You Tube titled Event
Horizon. Tom reveres John's work and his most favorite which Tom
will surely touch on, John's Top Ten lists. Tom was to interview John
in the early spring, but as we all know, Tom sadly lost his father,
legendary Philadelphia jazz guitarist, Sonny Troy. Tom has dropped to
me that he is in the works of getting back on the concept, so for
those that have emailed and asked, especially loyal listeners Karan,
Dave, Prashanth, and Ricky who requested the concept as far back as
2004, regardless it will be happening soon! Tom repeat
edly has praised
John Michael Godier's story telling, descriptiveness, and his amazing
ability to make an astronomy novice want
to expand their horizons and learn more. I asked Tom what questions he
would be asking John, Tom briefly dropped some of his possible
questions such as John's take on Oumuamua: an interstellar
rock? Or an alien planetary probe? Along with other topics such as the dimming of
Betelgeuse, Pacific ocean UFO anomalies, John's take on New Horizons,
Juno, and the future of planet Venus and if the Soviets accidentally
discovered life 50 years ago. Don't miss this show I can see Tom is
fired up to finally serve to the true astronomy nuts who love the
gagliarchives radio program. While our regular program never
goes a week without a mid-show astronomical event calendar we know as The
Stargazer's Handbook provided by the great people at Sky
& Telescope Magazine. This weekly astronomy forecast is at the
start of the program's third set.
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Martin Kvam of Karisma Records
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Our first Post-Rock focus show w/staffer Sean Mickle
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Ray Weston of Echolyn
Feel free to let us know who you'd like to see visit Tom North 13th Studios!
12/30/22 - Post Rock anyone?.........................................................
We
have just confirmed with North 13th Studios staffer Sean Mickle to
produce yet another first on the gagliarchives. A thematic genre
spotlight program on the genre of Post-Rock. Sean's a big post rock fan, and Tom
recently pointed out his fondness for Explosions In The Sky, Minus The
Bear, and many other instrumental projects. Tom was over heard telling
Sean, you should put together a mock Playlist and tell me why a
post-rock show would be attractive to our audience. Crazy but true,
and no doubt Sean
is making magic. 
12/19/22 - The Return Of Progressive Rock Weekly........... 2023 will see the return of our news program Progressive Rock Weekly. Progressive Rock Weekly, a weekly news update originally part of the radio program from 1997-2001 which will now transform into a weekly video program that will broadcasted once a week on both our gagliarchivesTWITCH & YouTube channels. This near 1/2 hour weekly program will keep you informed of the latest breaking news, album releases, and buzzing stories in the world of progressive rock, progressive metal, and all outlying styles & sub-genres. Don't miss this new addition to the radio program coming very soon!
11/17/21
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'20-'21 Virtual North 13th Studio visits.......
2021 will see the
immediate broadcasts UNCUT of all of our ZOOM virtual North Thirteenth
Studios guests and launched on both our Twitch & YouTube channels.
Visit both in the meantime at http://youtube.com/gagliarchives
and http://twitch.tv/gagliarchives
10/20/21 - The Analogue Tapes Series Is Still On Hiatus....
While our spin-off radio program has been on hiatus, the return of The Analogue Tapes Series: Volumes XII to XVI are in the works including flashback in-studio interviews & performances from 2000 in Quarkspace, Echolyn, Ken Golden of The Laser's Edge and his co-produced radio program blockbusters Program 627 - Progmetal Night & the demanded sequel in the late summer in Program 652 - PROGMETAL NIGHT II: Night Of The Gods. Those are just to name a few. Keep visiting this page to see upcoming schedules on The Analogue Tapes Series. Also, a big thanks to Jason Varga of Endless Boundaries Radio who has been co-producing & letting the new RCBC Radio air these lost but not forgotten gems of tape reels!
As mentioned recently, we have unearthed stacks of our stat-books that documented our pre-digital history that included original structures to our WEEKLYTOP20, The Lost Satellite charts, The GPRN's Top 100, and so much more. Most recently we finally have released the long awaited GPRN Top 100's from the years: 1995; 1996; 1997; and with 1998 in its final processes. Also added to the website are the earliest of our tabulations previously compiled. These early radio program logs helped explain the breakdown of our first four and a half years of when we were originally The Lost Satellite before we evolved into the Gagliarchives. You can now see those yearly charts from the pre-GPRN Top 100 era with The Lost Satellite Top 10 of 1991; The Lost Satellite Top 20 of 1992; The Lost Satellite Top 30 of 1993; and The Lost Satellite Top 40 of 1994. And it doesn't stop there. We will soon have The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100's table page readjustments for the Top 100's of; 1999; 2000; 2006; 2010; 2015; and 2016) Just bear with us as we finally rectify these issues and as always.....
