Music Street Journal 2015: Volume 2 - April 2015 - Issue 111

Music Street Journal #56

by Gary Hill, Jason Hillenburg (Contributor), Mike Korn (Contributor)

This is the book version of the April 2015 (111th) issue of Music Street Journal. It includes coverage of the following artists:

Progressive Rock CD Reviews:
Apollo Architect
Dave Bainbridge
The Bevis Frond
Brainticket
Dewa Budjana
Franck Carducci
Billy Cobham
Consider the Source
Electric Light Orchestra
Fernwood
Frogbelly and Symphony
Hawkwind
Kaukasus
John Lodge
Might Could
Negura Bunget
Bill Nelson
Odin’s Court
Plastic Handgun
Ramses
Renaissance
Todd Rundgren
Soniq Theater
Sonus Umbra
Tempest
Whale Fall
The Wild Beyond
Mark Wingfield with Yaron Stavi and Asaf Sirkis

Heavy Metal CD Reviews:
Judas Priest
Lunden Reign
Herman Rarebell and Friends
Venom

Non-Prog CD Reviews:
Ape Men
Artur U & the New City Limits
Bullyheart
Leah Capelle
Doghouse Swine
Echo Sparks
Electric Soul Parade
The Electro-Lights
Elf
Pablo Embon
J. Geils Band
Polly Gibbons
Vince Grant
Gypsy Lumberjacks
Lola de Hanna
Danny B. Harvey & Mysti Moon
Klassik
Last Charge of the Light Horse
Jonathan Bannon Maher
Kathy Muir
Michael ONeill
Tony Pops & Scott Andrew
Road Man
The Runaways
Scott A.F.
Shae
Sir Cadian Rhythm
Chris Spedding
Sweet
Jessi Teich
Various Artists - AG Drive Soundtrack
Brett Vogel
Wormwood

Video Reviews:
Air Supply
Devo
Rye Coalition
Various Artists - Rockin’ the Wall DVD

Interviews:
Dave Bainbridge
Febian Perez of Bike Thief
Consider the Source
Gayle Ellett of Fernwood
Frogbelly and Symphony
Annie Haslam
Tim Morse
Negru of Negura Bunget
Matt Brookins of Odin’s Court
Luis Nasser of Sonus Umbra
Carl Verheyen

Concert Review:
Uli Jon Roth

While Gary Hill compiled the book and wrote many of the articles, Jason Hillenburg, Mike Korn and Greg Olma all contributed articles and Greg Olma provided concert photos.

248 pages, Paperback

Published September 21, 2017

About the author

Gary Hill has been publishing Music Street Journal (musicstreetjournal.com) since 1998. Since 2018 Hill has published MSJ simultaneously on-line and in book form. He also published all the archives in book form. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers." In August of 2006 his first book The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft was published. Since then several other books (The Concert Photography of Gary Hill, the original edition of Strange Realities: Collected Short Stories and More by Gary Hill Expanded and Revised Edition, Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters from Musicians to Music and The Suite Music World of Gary Hill and a series of three books The Dark Starr Files) have been released. Wizard Song, his first book length science-fiction piece was released on March 31st, 2020. Hill has also written for cable television (Cops 2.0 on G4), All Music Guide, Demand Media Studios and more. He launched Tale of Wonder and Dread Publishing to release science fiction and horror books in 2018, but published a collection of those types of stories in 2017 titled "Dark Dreams and Worlds." Under the Tales of Wonder and Dread nameplate, Hill has published more than a dozen books including a series on Rockford Illinois cemeteries (Rockford's Final Resting Places), Spooky Rockford and Spooky Rockford Two and Spooky Berwyn. Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019 and has been doing video interviews, Spooky News segments and more for the Spooky Ventures YouTube Channel since then.