This is the book version of the April 2009 (75th) issue of Music Street Journal. It includes coverage of the following artists:
Progressive Rock CD Reviews: Aaen Anima Bodragaz Kate Bush Coyote Poets of the Universe Dream Theater Escherbach Flash Fractal John Orr Franklin Rob Fried Gunslinger Pontus H.W. Gunve Hawkwind Jethro Tull Jon And Vangelis Kitaro Latent Anxiety Patrick Moraz The Keith Reid Project Return To Forever Dudley Saunders The Season Standard Tony Senatore Derek Sherinian The Source (California, USA) Tomorrow's Eve Tuner Rick Wakeman Yes Frank Zappa
Heavy Metal CD Reviews: Black Sabbath Burn Halo Leif Edling Exciter Twisted Sister
Non-Prog CD Reviews: Eighteen Wheels Burning Five AM Carla Lynne Hall Katie Herzig Sarah Hethcoat Last November Gordon Lightfoot Phil Lomac Mama's Cookin' Bill Mumy Nashville Pussy Ted Nugent Parlour Steps Styx John Taglieri Thin Lizzy Van Halen Sarah VonderHaar Joanna Wang Wyldsky
Video Reviews: Count Basie and His Orchestra Jeff Beck Al Di Meola Fido Plays Zappa Rory Gallagher Glass Hammer Coleman Hawkins Travis Larson Band David Sanborn Tony Senatore Wayne Shorter Vanilla Fudge Various Artists
Interviews: Mark Hoffman of Bible of the Devil Ilya Lagutenko of Mumiy Troll Pro-Pain's Tom Klimchuck Wendy and Lisa
Concert Reviews: Jeff Beck Burn Halo Gordon Lightfoot Mötley Crüe Mumiy Troll
Book Review: Bill Bruford
While Gary Hill compiled the book and wrote many of the articles, Travis Jensen, Mike Korn, Scott Montgomery, Greg Olma, Bruce Stringer and Josh Turner all contributed articles and concert photos were provided by Gary Hill, Eric Meli and Scott Montgomery.
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.