BayProg.org

Welcome to BayProg, a web site of resources for San Francisco Bay Area progressive rock musicians and fans.

News

Updated June 17, 2008: Events, Concert Resources.

(Editor's note: Hey, I finally got this site displaying correctly in MSIE 7. Woot! Got mad web skilz, ftw. Or whatever the kids say nowadays.)

Greg Stone's Stone Trek on KFOX, 98.5 FM has been extended to 6 nights a week (!!!). Local commerical radio just got significantly better.

New Albums

Bay Area prog bands releasing new albums in the last six months or so.

Spirits Burning
Alien Injection

Spirits Burning & Bridget Wishart
Earth Born

Rocket Scientists
Looking Backward

Aegis Integer
Sand Timer

Metaphor
The Sparrow

Relic
Trust

Fractal
Aftermath

Alientar
Martian Terrain

Nels Cline Singers
Draw Breath

Mushroom
Joint Happening

Lindsey Boullt
Composition

The BayProg CD

The BayProg compilation CD can be found in the Spring 2002 issue of Exposé Magazine. It's called BayProg -- Progressive Rock from the San Francisco Bay Area, and features contributions from Michael P. Dawson, Gravity Tree, Metaphor, Mind Furniture, Monocaine, Amy X Neuburg & Men, New Sun, Puppet Show, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Spirits Burning, Tesseract and Trap.

What is this BayProg?

BayProg is the original regional progressive rock web site, first appearing in early 1999.

The goals of BayProg are, roughly:

To serve the needs of musicians who play in local progressive rock bands. As a musician I want to know what other bands are doing, maybe pair up with another band for a gig, find musicians for my band, keep track of venues, and keep track of places to advertise gigs.
To serve the community of local progressive rock music fans by promoting concerts, finding record stores that carry prog titles, reporting local happenings, etc.
Provide an email list as a forum for announcements and discussions.
Provide helpful information for touring bands interested in coming to the area.
Provide an alternative to the standard forms of musical promotion (FM radio, for instance) which appear to be increasingly uninterested in any type of serious music.
To support side projects. One example, Malcolm Smith (of Metaphor) has put together the BayProg sampler CD featuring 12 San Francisco Bay area bands.
Local pride; the San Francisco Bay area is large and culturally rich, and we love living here. It's the fifth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and includes three major cities and over 7 million people. (See Table 3 of US Census 2000: Ranking tables for Metropolitan Areas for some fascinating details.)
Also, there are a number of progressive rock fans who are pessimistic, or even downright gloomy, about the future of the genre and I want to prove them wrong (you know who you are).

The BayProg web site has evolved to a pretty hefty size; it's now about 25 pages worth of good stuff. And the BayProg email list has a little over 100 members.

I want to make BayProg as good as it can be, so please send me any news, updates, additions or corrections.

This site is now written using XHTML1.0 Strict, to be compatible with newer mobile wireless browsing devices and the newer browser standards. As a side effect, the display will be readable but less charming in older browsers (like Netscape Navigator 4.0 for instance). Such is life. As always, please tell me if anything comes out badly.

-- Don, don@till.com