Tonight's show is the 100th edition of Interstellar Overdrive (and no one's pulled the plug on it yet!). Thanks to everyone who supports this show, whether it be by listening live, joining us in the chat room, or downloading. We've made some great friends through this show, and look forward to the next 100. I was trying to think of something special to do tonight, and I thought it would be cool to take a look back at some of the bands I discovered in the early days of internet radio. Remember when you told AOL to piss off and you got your first broadband connection, and you could finally listen to streaming audio without the constant buffering that made it previously unlistenable? For me that happened in 2000, and I was in heaven after discovering a couple of prog stations on Live 365 (Brightlight's stream out of the Netherlands was a fav) as well as ProgRock.com, which had a cool weekly show called The Canvas Prog Hour (good to have you back Matt!) Anyway, maybe some of this will bring back memories like it did for me. Enjoy:

Tiles - Reasonable Doubt
Dream Theater - Finally Free
Saviour Machine - Carnival Of Souls
Shadow Gallery - I Believe
D.C. Cooper - Freedom
Dilemma - Comfort Zone Arena
Porcupine Tree - Sleep Of No Dreaming
Cerafim - Sides Of A Different Kind
4Front - Space Oddity 2001
Canvas - Twilight Journey
Eternity X - Eulogy
Evergrey - Different Worlds
Rick Wakeman with Ozzy Osbourne - Buried Alive
Jacob's Dream - Sarah Williams
Neal Morse - Landslide
Spock's Beard - Walking On The Wind
Savatage - Chance
Iluvatar - Holidays And Miracles
Jadis - Everywhere I Turn
Rocket Scientists - Aqua Vitae
Anathema - Fragile Dreams
Arena - Crying For Help IV
Carptree - Heart

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Congratulations to Krista Phillips who won a CD of her choice from Progrock Records for answering the Joe Bergamini question

The sound of those words signals that spring's arrival is imminent. While it's still cold, enjoy the cool tunes:

Phideaux - Chupacabras
Marillion and the Positive Light - Estonia (for Sully)
Porcupine Tree - Even Less (Extended Version)
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
The Tangent - The Sun In My Eyes (Extended Mix)
Sonic Pulsar - Schizophrenic Playground
Jim Gilmour - Last Portage
IZZ - Deception
Jadis - Make Me Move
Antimatter - Going Nowhere
Alias Eye - Driven
Ad Infinitum - Waterline
Presto Ballet - Bringin' It On
Mr. Gil - Enough
Satellite - Evening Overture
The Tangent - Grooving On Mars (Live)

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A bit of psychedelia on tonight's show, as well as some bonus Tangent material, Hugo Flores' "Project Creation", and some more new stuff from Jadis. We've also got an interview (recorded by and courtesy of neptunepinkfloyd) with Helen Boulding who previews a song cowritten with Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Chris Difford of Squeeze. Don't forget: podcast is now available at Podcast Alley. Thanks for listening; Enjoy!

Spiral Realms - Interstellar Overdrive
The Tangent - Kartoffelsalat Im Unterseeboot
Project Creation - The Floating World
Pendragon - No Place For The Innocent
Metamorphosis - Then All Was Silent
Ad Infinitum - Physician Heal Thyself
Helen Boulding Interview and preview of Hazel Eyes
Richard Wright (with Sinead O'Connor) - Reaching For The Rail
Phideaux - Soundblast
RPWL - Opel
The Tangent - Promises Were Made
Jadis - All You've Ever Known
Project Creation - Artificial Satellite
Presto Ballet - Find The Time
Phideaux - Fragment
IZZ - Abby's Song
Kino - Parade
The Tangent - Forsaken Cathedrals
Helmet Of Gnats - Almost Babylon
Darius - Snowflakes
Kate Bush - Sexual Healing
Project Creation - Returning Home
Timothy Pure - Dissolve
The Urbane - Time After Time
Jadis - I Hear Your Voice

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Can someone please explain to me why the following ("Pisschrist", a crucifix floating in urine) is "art"; free expression protected by our First Amendment:



...when this next one is a sacrilege and an attack on Islam?



I'm so fucking tired of religious hypocrites of ALL beliefs. You've got priests stealing money from churches and molesting their youngsters. Evangelicals who, like the Pharisees, think they're better than everyone else, but extort money from their believers right through the television screen. Islam, whose very name supposedly means "peace", is cherry-picking the Quran to justify being hell-bent on destroying the world. Be careful what you wish for (martyrdom), it just might come true. But I doubt it'll be virgins awaiting your arrival. (And people wonder why I avoid church like the plague).

Listening to "The Stream" from ProgRock.com.

Yes, it's that time of year again when we all wait excitedly to see if a fat rat sees it's shadow after being awakened from hibernation by a bunch of idiots dressed in tuxes in hope of a favorable weather prediction. Of course, a groundhog has as much chance of an accurate weather forecast as some overpaid TV meteorologist (the Weather Channel chicks don't count ) . In the mean time, we enjoy the following:

Wobbler - Rubato Industry
Helmet Of Gnats - Chimps In Space
House Of Not - Stranger
Mostly Autumn - Echoes
IZZ - Crossfire
Salem Hill - The Future Me
Chandelier - Glimpse Of Home
Canvas - Getting There
Cerafim - In My Life
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Owed To Darryl
Bubblemath - Potential People
Jadis - Standing Still
Sonic Pulsar - Somewhere In The Universe
Riverside - Volte-face
The Tangent - In Earnest
Sylvan - Strange Emotion

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A quick note: Due to a bug in my site software, some past podcast enclosures are still displaying as being present. Usually, I only keep the 4 most recent shows on hand.

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