Monday in radioland we have a milestone episode to celebrate.  Beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring new episodes of Nigel Pye’s Psychedelic Shack, and Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Nigel Pye has managed to hit episode 100 with Psychedelic Shack. This is one of the shows produced by our friends at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and while all three of our British shows started in the same week, Psychedelic Shack had a bit of a rocky launch, and was MIA for a couple of years while we found room for it on the schedule.

When we officially re-branded Voice of Appalachia as The AIR back in July, 2016, we had one day (Thursday) where, instead of just offering one music specialty show, we brought you four half-hour programs as part of a two-hour block. Of those four shows, Psychedelic Shack and Beatles Blast are still on the schedule.  The two other shows, The Punk Club and Ska Madness, were also produced by Haversham.  Ska Madness made the transition to a one-hour show, but was discontinued when its host, Dexter Checkers, developed health problems. The Punk Club stalled after four half-hour episodes when the host mysteriously disappeared.

Beatles Blast, of course, is hosted by yours truly. Psychedelic Shack returned to the schedule full-time as a one-hour show in 2018. In addition to hosting Psychedelic Shack, Nigel Pye is also the chief engineer for Haversham, and produces all of their shows.

Nigel was also reluctant to do anything special to mark his 100th episode, but we twisted his arm, and he came up with a fun theme for the show…fruit salad. An unusual number of Psychedelic Rock songs mention fruit, so Herman collected a bunch of them into one show.

Check out the playlist…

Psychedelic Shack 100 (2 PM EDT)

Ben Harper “Strawberry Fields Forever”
XTC “Fruit Nut”
One Step Beyond “Scene of the Lemon Queen”
The Monkees “Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears”
The Attack “Lady Orange Peel”
The Searchers “Cherry Stone”
The Nice “The Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon”
Andy Partridge “Cherry In Your Tree”
Donovan “Mellow Yellow”
The Elopers “Music To Smoke Bananas By”
The Move “Cherry Blossom Clinic”
Dave Gahan “Bitter Apple”
Syd Barrett “Apples and Oranges”
Legay “The Fantastic Story of The Steam Driven Banana”
Prince & The Revolution “Raspberry Beret”
Negative Space “Forbidden Fruit”

At 3 PM, Herman Linte put together a mixtape show featuring Brand New progressive rock. All the tunes you’ll hear were released in early 2025 (except for one ringer from late 2024). This show proves that Prog is not dead.

Which we pretty much knew anyway.

Check out the playlist…

Prognosis 127 (3 PM EDT)

New Prog For 2025 Mixtape

The Mars Volta “Lucro sucio”
Steven Wilson “The Overview”
Jethro Tull “Drink From The Same Well”
Patrick Leonard “Mary Saw Angels”
Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barrett “The Florist”
The Residents “Empty”
Colosseum “English Garden Suite”
Firephoenix “Torn Between The Good and the Bad”
James Whitely “Haunted”
Avamanyar “Cry Forevermore”
Hawkwind “Changes (Burning Suns and Frozen Waste)”
Glass Hammer “Terminal Lucidity”
Copperwell “By The Water”

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of brilliant stand-up from Lenny Bruce on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of Psychedelic Shack, that were hand-picked by Nigel Pye as his favorite episodes.