Just to clear the air at the start of this review, this is not progressive rock.

Blues Image are probably most famous for their hit song "Ride Captain Ride." Mike Pinera was not only the founder of the band, but also wrote that song and played guitar on it and sang it.

This instrumental album is truly a solo release, with Charles Brown doing everything here. There is a decent range, and this lands well in the progressive rock zone.

You might not have heard of Circus 2000 before. I know I hadn't.

This is an album made up of music played by two pianists. Now, you might think, "that doesn't sound like progressive rock to me."

Crack the Sky has a history of creating progressive rock. I have to say that without that I'm not sure I'd land this mostly acoustic set there.

Bass is the instrument of choice here. In fact, it's the only instrument.

This album is pretty amazing.

Lars Fredrik Frøislie is the keyboardist for Wobbler, who I have reviewed in the past. This solo album consists of just four songs, but two of those are over 15-minutes long.

This double CD set includes two rare albums from Hugh Hopper. For those who don't know, Hopper was at one time a member of Soft Machine.

This new double disc set collects Jade Warrior's two 1973 albums in one set. Of course, the discs get remastered in the process.

This new box set gathers up four albums from Jade Warriors into this four-CD set. The discs are all remastered, and each is comes in its own cardboard sleeve.

I have reviewed several releases from Kinetic Element over the years. This latest is sort of a concept album that is based on the past, present and future of space exploration.

I think that if this were the first album from Kong I'd heard, I'd probably land it under heavy metal. It would be a pretty odd metal album, though.

I've reviewed several of Le Mur's releases over the years. I have always liked this German act.

This music is experimental. It's often jazzy, but there are rock elements.

I am sure there are those who will argue that this should go under heavy metal. Honestly, based on some of the music here, I agree.

Kurt Michaels just keeps releasing cool albums. This new disc often bridges a gap between more mainstream rock and progressive.

This is an unusual act.

I've landed this under progressive rock. I can see people disagreeing with that. Here's my reasoning. First, there is some prog on a number of the songs.

The first thing I should get out of the way is that this is not progressive rock. In fact, it's not rock music at all.

It's a pretty safe bet you've never heard anything quote like this.

This box set of Tangerine Dream live performances is massive. It is spread across seven CDs and includes more than six hours of music.

This is a new release of a soundtrack album from Tangerine Dream. The electronic, and mostly ambient sounds here definitely fit as a movie soundtrack.

As unique as the last album from Unquiet Music Ltd. was, I think this is even more "out there." Yet, it's strangely compelling.

This new box set documents a concert from March 1st, 2022. We get two CDs of audio, but this also includes both a DVD and Blu-Ray of the concert.

This four-CD set has some great music contained within. We get some of the bigger prog acts in terms of songs from Renaissance, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harum and Yes.

This band hails from France. They play a type of music that combines heavy metal, hard rock, prog and more.

This collection of two Deicide albums in one double disc set is classy. You know, I'm not actually a fan of death metal in general.

Have you heard a lot of Belgian heavy metal bands? Well, Killer is one such band.

This group includes three former members of Megadeth: David Ellefson, Chris Poland and Jeff Young. In this concert performance they play a set of music from that act.

While I know Michael Schenker is generally considered a heavy metal artist, I think most times he's more hard rock.

I have reviewed several of these charity works from Brian Tarquin. They are all guitar heavy releases.

Warfare was one of the earliest bands to merge punk rock and heavy metal. This new collection is the first release of an alternate mix of their 1985 album Metal Anarchy.

This is a rare, and unusual, recording from Dave Brubeck. They were touring as a quartet, but saxophonist Paul Desmond missed the plane to Vienna. 

I've reviewed two EPs from this act for this issue of Music Street Journal. Released in 2022, this is the more recent of the two.

I'm reviewing two EPs from this New Jersey act in this issue of Music Street Journal. This one was released in 2021.

This is a great album. It really pushes a lot of the right buttons for me.

Although he's well versed in other instruments, too, this new release from Rene Erickson focuses entirely on his acoustic guitar work.

This is the second album from Falkner Evans that I have heard and reviewed. Like the previous one, this is all solo instrumental piano music.

This ten-inch, 45 RPM record features some alternate takes and unreleased songs from Howlin' Wolf. I love the raw blues edge that the music has.

While the name "M. CRANE" might make one think that this is a solo artist, that is actually the band name. Over the years the one constant in the band has been singer, song-writer Nick Maskill.

One Adam One is the name of an act featuring Adam Reichmann and Todd Schnitzer. This EP features an intriguing mix of music.

Here we have an outfit focused on acoustic music. The fact that's it's vocals dominated, makes it feel a bit like a throw-back to bygone eras.

This album features songs in Spanish with a definite Latin angle to the music. It's sort of a compilation as many of the tracks here have appeared on Lourdes Pita's early releases.

This is an intriguing set of music. It's electronic, but it seems to move deftly between EDM, Goth, techno, 80s stuff like Depeche Mode and more.

This collection is intriguing. It merges electronic music with soul, hip hop, jazz and more.

Neal Smith is probably best known for his work as Alice Cooper's drummer. The fact is, he's released quite a few albums under his own name.

Steppenwolf really created a sound that was so strong. Their brand of blues-leaning hard rock was fairly unique when they emerged in the 1960s.

This set from Minneapolis based band Sound Wave Mountain Cave is about as perplexing to nail down as that name.

Vince Taylor may not have invented old school rock and roll, but he sure did a great job of creating his version of it.

I am very much not the demographic for this music. It's set in the modern sort of pop sound that is heavily over-produced and relies on sounds that don't exist in nature.

Pat Travers was one of the rock gods of the 1970s. It's great to see him still making music in the 21st Century.

With summer time upon us, this collection from Bear Family seems appropriate.

This collection from Bear Family has a good mix of sounds. We get things ranging from the country side to rock and roll, surf guitar and even jazz.

Lee Kerslake was an important figure in hard rock and heavy metal, even if he wasn't a household name.

King Crimson is an unusual beast as a musical entity. I've been fascinated by the band about as long as I've known about them.

I've included this in the videos section, and therefore not done the usual track by track review because this is a Blu-Ray (in other words a video format). It's not really a video, though.

You can count on The Residents to do things in an unexpected way. I wasn't quite sure what to expect here, but it definitely wasn't an actual movie.