Here's the playlist for 7/5/97 (featuring all-American prog!)
(Those titles with a "#" were donations)
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
| Squonk Opera | A Good Clock Strikes Four-Thirty | # Ha Ha Tali | independent |
| 5uu's | Truth, Justice, and the American Way | Hunger's Teeth | RéR |
| echolyn | Bearing Down / Cash Flow Shuffle / Mr. Oxy Moron | Suffocating the Bloom | independent |
| Mike Keneally | 1988 Was a Million Years Ago | Boil That Dust Speck | Immune |
| Frank Zappa | Cruisin' for Burgers | Make a Jazz Noise Here | Barking Pumpkin |
| Biota | Reckoning Falls | Object Holder | RéR |
| Al DiMeola | Kiss My Axe | Kiss My Axe | Tomato |
| Hal Darling | Ether Frolic | # Darling | independent |
| Doug Michael and the Outer Darkness | Completely Accidental | # Collections 1993-1997 | independent |
| Jon Durant | Clutching Razors | # Silent Extinction beyond the Zero | Alchemy |
| Miles Davis | Spanish Key | Bitches Brew | Columbia |
| Michael Shrieve | Stella | Two Doors | CMP |
| Thinking Plague | Lycanthrope | In This Life | RéR |
| Happy the Man | Carousel | Happy the Man | Arista |
| Dream Theater | The Mirror / Lie | Awake | EastWest |
| Laurie Anderson | Big Science / Big Science reprise | United States Live | Warner Bros. |
| Boud Deun | # Astronomy Made Easy (FEATURED ALBUM) | Cuneiform | |
| The Muffins | Monkey with the Golden Eyes | Manna / Mirage | Wayside Music Archive Series |
| Phish | My Friend, My Friend | Rift | Elektra |
| David Torn | Seven Door #3 | Tripping over God | CMP |
| Brian Gingrich | The Knotted Cord | # Alchemical Samplings 1996 [The White Rim of Heaven] | Alchemy |
| Bon | Kronos | # To the Bone | LoLo Records |
| Marty Fogel | Cool It | Many Bobbing Heads, at Last... | CMP |
| Birdsongs of the Mesozoic | The True Wheelbase | Faultline | Cuneiform |
| French TV | Empaté | # Virtue in Futility | independent |
| quarkspace | Blackhawk Circle #2 | # spacefolds 1 | Eternity's Jest |
| Doctor Nerve | Splinter | Every Screaming Ear | Cuneiform |
| Cartoon | Apathy in America | Sortie [Cartoon] | Cuneiform |
| Steve Tibbetts | The Secret | Steve Tibbetts | Cuneiform |
| Tom Law / Steve Silverstein | They Grab You | # A Bean for Pythagoras | independent |
| Steve Hahn | In a Silent Way | # Stickburst | independent |
| Trey Gunn | Kuma | The Third Star | DGM |
| Rascal Reporters | Sent Flying | # Happy Accidents | ZNR |
| John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette | Back-Woods Song | Gateway | ECM |
| Forrest Fang | Message to the Blind Watchmaker (ACSII Mayhem) | # The Blind Messenger | Cuneiform |
| Absolute Zero | Tangiers / Not Symba | # Live in Providence, RI | independent |
| Bionaut | Astral Unraveler | # Au Naturel | independent |