Hey people - it's that time again, there's a brand new issue of Music Street Journal and it's live at
musicstreetjournal.com.
As always, I think we've assembled a great bunch of new articles for you. It's not our largest issue ever - but it's not far from it - but it might be our best.
We'll start it off by looking at the reviews of new progressive rock CD's. We've got these:
Beppe Crovella - Pianovagando
Gary Hill - Excursions: A Sound Painting
Percy Howard’s Meridium - A Pleasant Fiction
Kinetic Element - Powered By Light
Knight Area - Realm of Shadows
Marillion - Less Is More
Steve Morse - Band – Outstanding in Their Field
Nosound - A Sense of Loss
Odder Than 3 - Promo #1
The Pineapple Thief - 3000 Days
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
PropheXy - Alconauta
Rare Blend - Sessions
Shady Lane - Between Two
The Univerzals - Ocean of Light
The Void’s Last Stand - A Sun by Rising Set
and Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live At Hampton Court Palace
We've also got several retro progressive rock reviews debuting in this issue:
Bodast - With Steve Howe – The Early Years
Flash - In The Can
Steve Howe - Mothballs
and The Moody Blues - December
"So, what's new in metal?" you ask? Here's what we've got in terms of new CD reviews under the heavy metal banner:
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Circle of Fate - Back To Life
Lita Ford - Wicked Wonderland
Halford - Halford 3 – Winter Songs
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Rammstein - Liebe Ist Für Alle Da
Sekond Skyn - Addicted To Chaos
and WASP - Babylon
And we've also got these retro reviews in the heavy metal category:
Battleroar - To Death and Beyond...
Crescent Shield - The Last of My Kind
The Foreshadowing - Days of Nothing
and Winters - Black Clouds in Twin Galaxies
For new CD reviews in the "everything else" category - OK, we call it "non-prog" - we've got these:
David Arkenstone - Christmas Lounge
Buckcherry - Live and Loud 2009
The Coloursound - Reclaim
The Company Band - The Company Band
Everything Under (EU) - Infinite Genre
Gorgeous Got a Gun - Gorgeous Got a Gun
Kiss - Sonic Boom
Major League Ent. - Still On R Game
Painkiller Hotel - Black Roses
Paper Route - Absence
and Powerman 5000 - Somewhere On the Other Side of Nowhere
And we've also got these retro CD reviews:
Led Zeppelin - Coda
Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Maggi, Pierce and EJ - Silver
Here's our list of new DVD reviews for you:
Marty Balin - Live At The Boston Esplanade, June 14, 2008 DVD
Blackfield - Live in New York City DVD
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High: Live in Japan DVD
Kenny G - An Evening of Rhythm and Romance DVD
Billy Idol - In Super Overdrive Live DVD
Tom Jones - This is Tom Jones: What’s New Pussycat? DVD
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell The Original Tour DVD
Redemption - Frozen in the Moment (Live in Atlanta) DVD
Roxy Music - More Than This: The Story of Roxy Music DVD
Status Quo - Pictures: Live at Montreux 2009 DVD
Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready: Greatest Hits Live DVD
UB40 - Food For Thought: Greatest Hits Live DVD
Various Artists - Let Freedom Sing – How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement DVD
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII:Live at Hampton Court Palace DVD
The Who - The Who, The Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection DVD
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle 40th Anniversary Live Concert DVD
and ZZ Top - Double Down Live DVD
And we've got a ton of new interviews - with new chats with these acts:
Aethellis
Ajalon
Dave Bainbridge
Bird Mancini
Buckcherry
Djam Karet
Edensong
Edgar Gabriel’s StringFusion
Farpoint
iNFiNiEN
King Crimson
The Living
Kurt Michaels
Nox Arcana
Oz Noy
Powerman 5000
Rare Blend
Derek Sherinian
Billy Sherwood
Alex Skolnick Trio
Roine Stolt
James Sudakow
Steve Thorne
Tilt
Mike Visaggio
The Void’s Last Stand
and Wolverine
There's also four new concert reviews:
Buckcherry
Kiss
Queensrÿche (with pics and many more in a gallery in the members' area)
UFO (with pics and many more in a gallery in the members' area)
And we've also got one new book review:
Bowie: A Biography written by Marc Spitz
Don't forget about the three new galleries we've added to the members' area recently. There's the Queensryche and UFO galleries mentioned above (with over 100 pics in each) and a new RIk Emmett gallery with more than those two. Members can use the box on the main page (
musicstreetjournal.com) to log in and check all the great stuff out. If you haven't got a membership yet just use the "click to register" link - right next to it - to get your membership. They start at six bucks (a month) and you can get a full year for just $25. Check out the video on the main page of the site (
musicstreetjournal.com) to get an idea of the kinds of things you get in the members' area - but remember there's a lot more been added since that video was made.
Well, that pretty well rounds out the content for this issue, but don't forget you can play along at home. Just go to our
Amazon.com store at
http://astore.amazon.com/musicstreetjourn and scroll down on the left to current issue. There you can order the CD’s and DVD’s in the issue. You'll also notice another section where you can download music (these are legal downloads) for many of the items. As the CD reviews, this section is organized by genre. And, if you are so inclined you can buy the stuff from there – and listen along while you see what we had to say about the music.
Finally - no matter what holiday you celebrate (if you don't celebrate any, why not pick one - or make one up - why miss out on the fun) here's hoping your holiday season is joyful. We'll see you in a couple months with another new issue.