The brand new members only area includes video and audio of featured artists, an audio podcast by Bill Bruford, an audio interview with Ray Manzarek of the Doors an audio interview with Enslaved and a massive concert photo gallery featuring almost 2000 photos of such bands as Judas Priest, Queensryche, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Hawkwind, Magma, Alice Cooper, Yes and many, many more. Check out the register button above to get your membership or log in at the top of the page if you've already got your membership. This section will be updated on a very regular basis, so be part of it so you don't miss out. You even get the chance to read exclusive blogs from featured bands and you can ask them questions and get their responses.  If you want a peek inside the members area - check out this link. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page. The latest items added to our members area are audio interviews with Exodus (Gary Holt), Hawkwind (Dave Brock from 1998) and Uriah Heep (Bernie Shaw from 1998).

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Music Street Journal we have redesigned the site and will be adding some new and exciting features over the coming weeks.  We are still in the process of converting  our archived reviews.  That means you might see an artist listed, but find no articles for that artist. Or you might look at our back issues and find nothing in a specific issue. Rest assured we're working on getting nine plus years worth of articles converted into our new format. It will take some time. So keep checking back as we continue to add more content to the site. Also, note that we only had issue by issue information for the last couple years. The early years are organized with an issue number like 01, 02, 03 and each represent a full year. 00 is all the articles from 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Announcing - The MSJ Members Area

This is a great new feature launched with the new version of the site. We've got audio versions of some of the interviews we've conducted (currently Enslaved, Exodus, Hawkwind, Uriah Heep and The Doors (Ray Manzarek) ), large galleries of our concert pictures (with more pics and larger pics than you'll find in the reviews), songs provided by bands, blogs by musicians, videos by musicians, a chance to ask some of the musicians questions directly (and to see the questions others have asked along with their answers). Click on the MEMBERS AREA link to sign up for your account. There will be material added to that section on a regular basis, while the main site will be updated just once every two months. You get exclusive content, lots of extra features and more frequent updates all for your membership fee.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

I can’t emphasize enough how much Music Street Journal needs your support. For years we’ve been providing CD reviews, interviews, etc. for our readers. We’ve been donating our time and paying for the website to bring that to you. That means the bands that we cover have been getting publicity that we’ve been paying for – it’s free to them. That means that those of you who read the site (and there are twenty thousand of you every day) have been enjoying the content and we’ve been the ones footing the bill. That just can’t continue anymore. Without recouping some of that money the site is going to fail.

So, if you’ve enjoyed Music Street Journal or if your band has gotten coverage from the site, we need you to pay your share now. We’re not doing a “pay for coverage” approach as that really does a wonderful job of ruining objectivity in reviews. Instead we’re doing this on the honor system. But this is a case where if you don’t carry your own weight on your honor the site WILL GO AWAY. We have no choice. Without financial support our time is limited and we’ll most likely be gone before the end of 2008.

So, if you’ve enjoyed Music Street Journal at one time or another (and you are here right now), or if you have gotten free publicity from the site, we need you to help keep us alive. Here are ways you can help.

• Buy a membership – they start at six dollars for a month and go up to 25 bucks for a year. And while this helps the site stay alive it also gives you access to a lot of exclusive stuff – see the video (under the log in box) for more detail about that.

• Buy a banner ad. If you’ve got something to sell or a site you want to promote, we have banner ads for just sixty five bucks a year – and with 20k visitors a day – that’s a bargain. Email me at musicstreetjournal@musicstreetjournal.com for more information about this.

• Blog about Music Street Journal or otherwise promote us to try to get your fans to support us.

• You can also buy a sponsorship – email me at musicstreetjournal@musicstreetjournal.com for more information about this option.

We need your help and we need your help now. The honor system hasn’t worked well so far and we’re going to die without help.

Thanks for the month : Adrian Belew, Arjen Lucassen, Jus Osborn, Eric Slick, Julie Slick, Mike Visceglia, Saul Zonana,Adrenaline PR, BeBop Productions, Chipster PR, Cuneiform Records, Divine Industries, The Doors Music Company, The End Records, Glass Onyon PR, InsideOut America, Jensen Communications, Kayos Productions, Magna Carta Records, Mazur PR, Nuclear Blast, Papago Records, Sony, Think Tank Media, Umbrello Records, Virgin Records, Bret Adams, Jeff Albright, Jayne Andrews, Carrie "Killer" Bramer, Adrian Bromley, Tracy Bufferd, Nancy Carroll, Joel Craig, Kim Davis, Dave at Earsplit PR, Andrew Demarest,  Maria Ferrero, Alexander Ford, Bobbie Gale, Dustin Goldfarb, Mike Greenblatt, Neil Greenwood, Dan Hanley, Samantha Haycock, Meghan Helsel , Mike Heitzman, James Ihira, William James, Jeffrey Jampol, Jensen Lee, Tziona Katz, Carol Kaye, Lauren Kirkland, Anne Leighton, Christine Mackie, Michael Mazur, TJ McCarthy, Derek Meiers, Erin Morris, Mark Morton, Bridget Moyer, Steve Nardelli, Jim Pitulski, Juliana Plotkin, Mitzye Ramos, Mark Rawsthorne, Brian Roche, Chip Ruggieri, Steve Ryan, Susan Stewart, Loana dp Valencia, Vicke (Enslaved Tour Manager), Stephanie Watanabe, Clint Weiler, Ben Williams, Jonathan Wolfson, Robert Smith, Ed Unitsky and Greg Johnson.