Mission Statement
ProgRockRadio.com offers a selected choice of melodic, symphonic, and psychedelic rock for listeners all over the world. As you listeners know, the broad genre of progressive rock encompasses many different types of rock music. We have chosen to narrow it down a little. In doing so, we chose not to play much (if any) of the heavier or darker sub-genres of progressive rock (prog metal, heavy metal, Goth). Also, unlike many other "progressive" rock radio stations, we don't play Classic Rock. As much as we like Classic Rock, we feel there are enough internet and FM stations that offer that music. However, we have over 500 (and growing) prog artists in our library. We also like to embrace the Independant Artist and include music from selected Independant Artists in our playlists. For a complete list of bands that we play here at ProgRockRadio.com, please check our artist list on the home page. Almost all the music is hand picked by Anton himself. However, here at ProgRockRadio.com we do try to accomodate listener requests and I think you'll find that if the requests fall within our liking, we usually accomodate what you requested.
ProgRockRadio is a non-commercial internet radio service. We respect the artists and record labels. We pay Live365.com to stream our music. They pay the royalty fees to various organizations for our station.
General information on progressive rock can be found here: ProgArchives.com.
Check out our space on myspace.com.
Yours,
Anton Roolaart
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OUR STAFF
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Anton Roolaart |
Anton, who is originally from the Netherlands, started ProgRockRadio.com in 2004. For years, Anton sought out progressive music from other places by listening to Internet Radio from all over the world. The idea of ProgRockRadio.com came to him almost unexpectedly when he was searching for ways to share his love of progressive rock, he especially wanted to introduce non-US artists to the US audience. A composer and musician himself, Anton has been involved with music for many years and spends a lot of time in his home studio working on his music. In April of 2007 Anton released first CD entitled Dreamer (which is getting some good reviews). You can find out more information about Anton by clicking on the following links:
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Phoebe
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Phoebe has been part of the ProRockRadio team for a while now. Her role includes: marketing, adding music to our growing library of prog rock, reviewing music and band submissions, and she also maintains PRR's web presence, primarily the PRR mypace page located here. Phoebe normal profession is a music and dance therapist specialising in neuropsychiatry.
I should also mention that LeeLoo (her dog also featured in the picture) keeps Phoebe happy and working hard. LeeLoo's favorite band is Blackfield.
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Vito Vitale
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Album Reviewer for ProgRockRadio.com and a long-time close friend of Anton's, Vito is a well-rounded musician with a very good knowledge of rock music. He is also an excellent guitarist. Vito and Anton had played in a band togther in the early 90's. Vito speaks several languages and is originally from Italy. He lived a long time in the USA and now lives in Brazil. He's also one of the nicest persons I know (Anton).
Visit his web site for more info on Vito.
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CONTRIBUTING FRIENDS OF THE STATION
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| Jon Yarger |
Jon is a valuable resource for Progressive Internet Radio and is a big supporter of progressive rock in general. Not only does he have the wonderful site, progradio.net but one can usually find Jon working at prog festivals like Nearfest. He is also a one of the main guys working at NJProgHouse.com, which puts on great prog shows in the NY/NJ area.
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| Jupe |
Jupe has been a helpful resource for finding music for prog artists to be played on ProgRockRadio.com.
He originally met and contacted Anton a couple of years ago when he asked Anton to sing on a progressive rock music project he and others in Spain were working on. Anton gladly sang on one of the songs.
Jupe is a drummer and huge prog fan from the Basque area of Spain. Anton and Jupe are still working on a project together when they have time. Visit Jupe's site (JESDAT) for more info.
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| Cindy Bird |
Who's that female doing Station IDs for ProgRockRadio.com you say.
Well, that's Cindy. She's been very gracious to help out ProgRockRadio.com here and there.
A wonderful nice person. Cindy also works promotions rep for the USA branch of a Dutch label - DVS records. |
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