This album is definitely not for everyone. It certainly has historical value because of the way it seem to predict a whole subgenre of progressive music

Jason Blake is really building up quite an admirable catalog of solo music. Blake is a Warr guitarist hailing from my regional backyard, in his case, Chicago.

I remember that when I first tried to listen to this album years ago, I gave up on it fairly quickly. ll.

I am a big fan of progressive rock, space rock and metal. Those three styles of music all play a role in the sonic tapestry produced by this group.

The year is literally just starting. Okay, that's not 100 percent truthful.

This is unusual and intriguing music. It's definitely not prog in any traditional sense, but it is decidedly art rock based.

I know virtually nothing about this artist. I know the album was released in 2022.

You can never go wrong with releases from Terry Draper. Draper first came to fame as part of the band Klaatu, but in more recent years he's released quite an impressive catalog of music.

I've reviewed several albums from The Electric Family in the past. I always land them under progressive rock, but it's not a tight fit.

I've listed this under the actual title, which was the ever more confusing "Peter Gabriel."

Little by little, I've been making my way through these Hawkind compilation albums getting reviews up.

This is a very unique and intriguing album. Let's just say at the outset that I've included this under progressive rock because of the experimental art music that makes it up.

Peter Hesslein is best known as the guitarist for Lucifer's Friend. This solo album is nearly all instrumental.

I like Izz quite a bit, but I have to admit that I never heard this particular album before. This is a 20th Anniversary edition release.

Progressive rock with a real mainstream angle to it was such a huge thing in the 1970s.

John Martyn was clearly part of the folkier side of the prog movement, and that's part of why I've landed this set under the "progressive rock" heading.

I want to make this clear right out of the gate, this album from 1969 is not a progressive rock disc. It is however, very much proto-prog, and there are moments that are prog.

I made the decision to put this album under progressive rock. It could just as easily have gone under heavy metal, though.

This album was originally released in 1976. That version featured vocals in German.

This is a double CD set from Nineteentwelve. Well, technically it's from that prog outfit and Omenopus, but the first CD is strictly Nineteentwelve.

This is the newest album from progressive rockers Nineteentwelve.

This album from 1991 has just gotten a reissue on vinyl.

I'm including this review under progressive rock largely because Dallas Perkins is billed as a prog artist. This album does have some definite proggy elements, though.

I have to say that I have gone back and forth on whether this release fits under progressive rock. Ultimately, I made the decision to put it there.

I never expect The Residents to do anything the way others do. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

This is the second set from Robeone I've reviewed. 

This album was the one that began the Saga saga. Sorry, I tried to resist that little (very little) pun, but I just couldn't. Saga's sound brought a different angle to progressive rock.

This is a band that really isn't all that good a fit under progressive rock.

This new release of two albums (one for 1978 and the other 1983) on one CD captures an intriguing band.

You know, the very concept of adapting Shakespeare to a concept album is very "prog rock" in itself. This definitely belongs there musically, too, though.

I've reviewed another album from this act for this issue of Music Street Journal. This double disc set is an interesting one.

If you want to hear a 1970s album that is very hard to categorize or label, you might want to give this one a try. 

Toyah has had a recent resurgence in name recognition and fame in a large part due to her videos with husband Robert Fripp that started during the pandemic.

I really like the blend of sounds on this album from Swiss act The Universe by Ear.

This is an uneven, but interesting solo album from Rick Wakeman. I think there are at least a couple throwaway songs here, but there are some that work so well.

This is a new vinyl release of an album from 1971. The range of sounds here is unique.

This album, the final credited to The Mothers of Invention, features two vocal tracks, with the remainder of them instrumental.

I have to admit that I've never been a big fan of death metal. This band and this set might really change my mind on that.

Here we get a newly remastered edition of 1992's Kill After Kill from Exciter. I know I refer to a lot of this as thrashy.

In a lot of ways this new disc feels like a lot of 1970s hard rock. It's got a lot more metal in the mix, though.

Here we have a new edition of an album from 1986. This includes four bonus live tracks.

The second disc from German band Stormwitch that I'm reviewing in this issue, this, like that other one, is a remastered edition. .

Released in 1989, The Headless Children was WASP.'s fourth album and a quantum leap in their career. Very few bands in metal history have leaped forward as much as WASP did here.

This two CD collection gathers up a number of recordings from Mike Bloomfield. You probably got that from the title, right? 

Katie Callahan's music feels both familiar and fresh. The blend of sounds presented here is fairly wide from folk music to Americana and much more.

The sound of this duo is very hard to pin down. I mean, it all exists sort of in a general techno zone.

For people in my age group, perhaps Ronnie Hawkwins was best known as the guy who gave musicians who would later form The Band some serious musical experience.

I previously reviewed another set from Russ Hewitt. That one was an instrumental album featuring Latin guitar in arrangements that occupy a space between Latin music and fusion.

This new ten-inch, 45 RPM record from Bear Family gathers up some real winners from Wanda Jackson and puts them all on a killer disc.

I have to admit to never hearing this band before. This collection is an intriguing introduction to an unusual group. 

This duo previously released a couple EPs that I reviewed. Fernando Perdomo is a frequently covered artist at MSJ.

This is a collection of music from an outfit that went by a number of different names. They seemed to touch on as many types of different 1960s music, too.

It's always cool to watch an artist develop.

I'd like to address the elephant in the room at the onset. This music often sounds a lot like The Beatles.

Bear Family releases a lot of music from artists of yesteryear. They also put out some things that feature acts that are modern, but whose music is rooted in old-school sounds.

This set isn't, at least to my ear, all power ballads. It's not even all ballads.

Misha Seeff may have been a teenager when he wrote and recorded this music, but his experiences lend a more mature feeling to it.

Joanne Shaw Taylor is known as the Queen of Blues Guitar.

Brandon Teskey is probably best known as the guitarist in Until the Sun. This solo album showcases his sense of blues rocking sound outside of that group.

This set is a lot of fun. That said, there is a real misogynistic, dare I say "Neanderthal?," theme to some of the lyrics here.

This is the third release in a series. I'll bet you got that from the title, though, right?

I was born a little too late for the whole Beat Generation thing. This album, released on the 100th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's birthday both celebrates the era and helps to document it.

This collection focuses on musical celebrations of sweet treats. While there is quite a range of music here,

This set wasn't quite what I expected. I was thinking we'd get a lot of sea shanties done by musicians who were more or less historic recreationists.

This EP features some solid tunes. The basic concept here lands along the lines of pop music and R&B.

I initially had planned to land this under progressive rock. That was largely due to the appearance of Tony Levin and Jerry Marotta.

This video was released under the Wiki.Film banner. Now, I wasn't sure exactly what that meant until I started watching this.

 If you aren't familiar with Circle Jerks, you should be - particularly if you are into punk rock.

If I had to come up with the slogan for this video, it would be "Come for REM and the B-52s, stay for the whole scene and the other bands." 

Here we have a documentary that really shines the light on some common misconceptions, while telling a fascinating, although often not so pretty, story.

Interview with Aaron Clift from 2022