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 yam yam wrote:

^ That's potentially a great playlist right there. I'll have to listen to the podcast of this show for sure to see which tracks from these artists you've selected. 
It's becoming increasingly obvious to me that we're not keeping up with the profusion of new prog artists that have arisen on the scene lately here at PA. Amanda Chaudbury (Eclectic Prog maybe?) and Aliènor (Prog Folk?) from this playlist, and I can recall Wedingoth (Prog Metal?) and Michal Wojtas (Crossover Prog?) of Amarok whose albums were reviewed on the site a while back too. Doubtless there have been many others too, if I was to spend some time looking back. I'm going to create a separate topic about this situation in the 'Help us improve the site' section, where we could discuss if there might be anything we can do to improve matters. 

Thanks David. Yes, today will be a fantastic show, he says begging himself up shamelessly, but there is some great music out there.

Prog Archives has an extremely important role to play in the prog world as an encyclopaedia, and the trouble is, as you say, if the site is unable to keep up with new artists, it’s value diminishes, although in the site’s defence, I will say that there have never been as many recording artists as there are now. I recall a retired admins disdain of “Bandcramp” as he put it, but Bandcamp is absolutely the platform for modern recording artists in our world, and keeping abreast of that is important.

As a SC, you would be welcome to use reviews and samples that I have used in my website’s reviews. I am not precious, and do still support PA, although I might add here that the Byzantine structure you have does not help matters. My advice would be to streamline, both sub-genres, and certainly the addition process.