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CONCERT REVIEW: Rush’s R40 in Toronto, June 17, 2015

June 18, 2015by Make Your Own Taste Leave a comment

by Allister Thompson Rush’s R40 tour spectacle, which features video footage and lasers a-plenty, rolled into the local hockey and basketball arena for what may be the band’s last major […]

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Progressive, Rock

CONCERT REVIEW: Steve Rothery in Glasgow, November 5, 2014

November 6, 2014by Make Your Own Taste 1 Comment

by Thomas Mathie “Even Richard Dawkins knows that Steve Rothery is God” … this was the statement that confronted me last night. It was printed on the back of the […]

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Progressive, Rock

CONCERT REVIEW: Nik Turner’s Hawkwind in Toronto, September 15, 2014

September 16, 2014by Make Your Own Taste 12 Comments

by Allister Thompson I don’t get out to club gigs much any more, having played a billion of them in my day and gotten really fatigued by it. When a […]

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Electronic, Progressive, Psychedelic, Rock

DOUBLE LIVE! Grading the glory of the 1970s double album

December 27, 2013by Make Your Own Taste 11 Comments

The seventies was the time in music when everything was big. Sure, rootsy, down-to-earth post hippie singer-songwriters were plugging away successfully — in fact, the world of music was probably […]

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Folk Rock, Glam, Progressive, Rock, Uncategorized

Concert Review! The Waterboys in Toronto, September 18, 2013

September 18, 2013by Make Your Own Taste 20 Comments

Scotsman Mike Scott’s puckish comet of a persona has blazed a trail of unabashedly romantic, mystical and ambitious Celtic rock ‘n roll wit and wisdom across the musical sky for […]

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Acoustic, Folk, Folk Rock, Folk-rock, Glam, New Wave, Psychedelic, Rock, Singer-songwriter, Uncategorized

Concert Review! Steven Wilson in Toronto, April 23, 2013

April 24, 2013by Make Your Own Taste 5 Comments

Here’s a new feature! Not one you should expect to see often, but when I go see a concert, I may as well write about it. I’m sort of a […]

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Dream pop, Progressive, Rock, Shoegaze

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The History of My Taste

  • River of Tears
  • The Music of the Spheres: A Rock Dystopia
  • No Reason to Cry: Songs by Grant McLennan
  • PROCOL HARUM’s underrated musical blend
  • HAMMOCK Reaches for the Heavens…and Takes Us Along
  • Fairport Convention’s “Liege and Lief”
  • Video Premiere: Unimaginable Light Shines Out by The Gateless Gate
  • Khan Tengri – KT2 (2016)
  • CONCERT REVIEW: ANATHEMA in Toronto, August 21, 2017
  • ANATHEMA – The Optimist (2017)
  • MICHAEL DILAURO – Spaghetti Western (2016)
  • TWILIGHT FIELDS – Further Up, Further In! (2016)
  • 10 More Essential British 1970s folk-rock albums
  • The Tragically Hip and Canada’s Fraught Identity
  • 10 more great post-2000 progressive rock albums
  • 10 More Classic International Prog-Rock Albums
  • KHAN TENGRI – Aeons (2016)
  • 10 of the best albums of the late 1960s, Vol. 2
  • COVER VERSIONS – Albums by Steven Wilson, Daniel Cavanagh, Ulver, The Church … and Def Leppard
  • CARAVAN – Musical Whimsy and Wonder from England’s South Coast
  • An appreciation of PHIL COLLINS: You’re not worthy
  • GILES JACOBS AND WOLFGANG MERX – I Have Fought! (2015)
  • CONCERT REVIEW: The Church in Toronto, August 7, 2015
  • THE FIERCE AND THE DEAD – Magnet (2015)
  • SOUND OF CONTACT – Dimensionaut (2013)
  • NEW Gateless Gate releases: Ancient Ocean and Ancient Metals
  • The Essential ROBERT RICH
  • ASCENDANT – Æthereal Code (2015) The genuine mystic trance
  • ANATHEMA – Weather Systems (2012) Music’s healing power
  • CONCERT REVIEW: Rush’s R40 in Toronto, June 17, 2015
  • ALTUS – The Time Collection (2015)
  • Starlit and Bible Black: DAVID CROSS and ROBERT FRIPP’s Starless Starlight (2015)
  • A tribute to the pot-head pixies: DAEVID ALLEN and GONG
  • Ten beautifully tranquil new age albums
  • An Old Person’s Guide to King Crimson
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  • ROBERT RICH – Filaments (2015)
  • STEVEN WILSON – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)
  • 10 of the best albums of the late 1960s, Vol. 1
  • THE GATELESS GATE – Landslag Norður Íslands (The Landscape of North Iceland) (2015)
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  • 2015 Winter Roundup
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  • Three Fine New Releases from Fluttery Records: Gespenst, Summer Effect, Row Boat
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  • The 200th Post: The Top 10 Best Weird Al Yankovic Originals!
  • Heartbreak engraved in vinyl: Two classic, cathartic break-up albums
  • Year-End Bests, Part 3: Thomas Mathie and Matthew Sweeney’s picks
  • Year-End Bests, Part 2: Simon Slator and Lee Rosevere’s picks

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  • The Rambler
  • Headphonaught's Nanolog
  • WE LOVE ALL THAT
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  • Revolt of the Apes
  • if you see light
  • Revolutions Per Minute
  • Small Town Romance
  • Styrofoam Drone
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  • New Music Buff
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progressive rock; albums, commentaries and concert reviews

Read and Hear

Recommended listening!

timeweleftthisworldtoday

This world's so mixed up everywhere you go

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Albums, concerts, reviews, audio gear, how to's

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Daily Rock Report

Because you like it hard and Loud.

vinylconnect.wordpress.com/

Tales From The Riverbank

What's happening here in Freak City

thewisetent

The art of getting by.

The Immortal Jukebox

A Blog about Music and Popular Culture

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A music blog written by Rich Brown

Eternity Tree

Underground Music Recommendations

PostRock Star

Reviewing all things post-rock and all things relevant

SnapDragon Magazine

Music, Arts, Entertainment and more

Dayz of Purple

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

Retrospective Overload

Nostalgic Music Criticism from Portland, sister blog to Foreign Accents

Toppermost

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

PREPARED GUITAR

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

HearFeel

Sounds Into Words

Critter Jams

Supported by Mooncrosoft.

The Music That You Hear

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

Spacerockmountain

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

Progwinds - Prog and rock news, reviews and more!

The Isolatarium

Incarceration techniques.

The 13th Track

Features and reviews focusing on the known and unknown legends of Rock 'n' Roll; the private press heroes, doomed power poppers, psychedelic guitar warlords, avant garde outsiders, and lo-fidelity all stars.

Ambient music FB

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

Santa Sangre

blissful nightmares & mechanical dreams

Sampling Station

Tasty tunes, laughs, TV + film

A Little Light Music

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

The Delete Bin

pop, rock, punk, folk, new wave, R&B, blues, electronica, and jazz

The CerebralRift

True Indie Art from the Commons

The Rambler

Tim Rutherford-Johnson

Headphonaught's Nanolog

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

WE LOVE ALL THAT

And you know that can't really be bad. No.

Benvenuti

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

Revolt of the Apes

... we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you... now!

if you see light

Richard Thwaites

Revolutions Per Minute

Religion, Politics, Music - RPM. Get it?

Small Town Romance

Styrofoam Drone

Always tuned in.

Foreign Accents

A Portland-based blog for appreciating experimental music and sound art the world over

Stationary Travels

Journeys in Sound & Music

New Music Buff

Random perspectives from an informed new music fan.

Starving Daughter's Vinyl Impressions

Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock ... etc.!

harmonicsdb

thoughts about music by David Beardsley

elmergantry

' I've lost the power I had to distinguish between what to ignite and what to extinguish' - Rowland S. Howard

forestpunk

A Journal Of The Dark Arts

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