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Mark’s Quick Reviews: Steve Walsh’s – Black Butterfly
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. Steve Walsh, possibly the best prog rock voice of the 70's, has released a...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Monarch Trail’s – Sand
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. Monarch Trail's sophomore release. It is a nice crossover prog album as...
Steve Hackett to perform with orchestra at UK shows
Steve Hackett has announced a brief run of 6 shows in the UK for his Genesis Revisited tour that will take place in October. The guitarist will be joined on the road by a 41-piece orchestra, led by conductor Bradley Thachuk. Hackett says: “I always hoped that the...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: paganHARVEST’s – Sacred River
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. You know how we all love the spoken word portion of Nights in White Satin?...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Veio’s – Infinite Light // Desperate Shadows
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. This heavy prog album from Portland is packed with energy. I actually was not...
Rush’s Alex Lifeson says the band is done
The words Rush fans have hoped not to hear came from guitarist Alex Lifeson in a recent interview with The Globe And Mail: “It’s been a little over two years since Rush last toured. We have no plans to tour or record any more. We’re basically done. After 41 years, we...
KINO return with new album Radio Voltaire
Kino have announced the release of their new album ‘Radio Voltaire’, arriving 13 years after the band’s much-loved debut ‘Picture’ back in 2005. Out on March 23rd, 2018, it sees John Mitchell (It Bites, Lonely Robot) & Pete Trewavas (Marillion) teaming up once...
Mark’s Quick Reviews: Обійми Дощу’s – Сон
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. This FREE album is really remarkable. One of the best submissions I have...
Mark’s Quick Review: Galahad’s – The Seas of Change
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. So here we are with an album with one 42 minutes song. Not sure if it's been...
Mark’s Quick Review: Village in the Valley’s – Old Stories
If you have never read the key for my ratings below please do so one time. I feel my ratings are tougher than my peers. Also Check my last.fm link to see how compatible our music tasts are. This album started out promising and the subject matter is pretty interesting....
Mark’s Quick Review: Paolo Carraro Band’s – Newborn (EP)
This Italian band from the city of Vicenza has come at us with a guitar focused rock. This is one part rock, one part hard rock one part jazz and one part rockabilly. I would suspect that this bands live shows are amazing due to the musicianship and decent...
Mark’s Quick Review: Phideaux’s – Infernal
So, this is a special double album for me to review. I have been a huge Phideaux fan since 2009 and we have been friends nearly as long. This is a perfect example of why I think its a great idea for reviewers to rate their opinion of the band going into a review,...
Mark’s Quick Review: Mystery’s – Lies and Butterflies
Mystery is a Canadian band which I have only seen live twice but I have seen parts of this album performed live in Germany recently. Jean Pageau is wonderful and a solid replacement for Benoit David. This album has some true highlights for me which you can request...
Mark’s Quick Review: The Aaron Clift Experiment’s – If All Goes Wrong
I have given this album a few listens. This Texas crossover prog band is well liked in the progrock community. We did see them play at Rosfest, their only concert outside of Austin. I really want to like them but I just can't recommend this album. There is a lot of...
Mark’s Quick Review: Ghost’s – Prequelle
This varied genre band that can be discribed as Heavy metal, doom metal, hard rock, psychedelic rock progressive rock, or pop rock has made an album for prog fans in Prequelle. Usually the band is too heavy for the middle of the road prog fan. This time if anything...
Mark’s Quick Review: Tamarisk’s – Breaking The Chains
This long lost music of Tamarisk was orginally released on cassette and cd in the early 80's. All of Tamarisk's tracks remastered from original quarter inch tapes. This cd comes with Four newly recorded songs from Tamarisk's 1984 live set, A 16 page booklet telling...