Ron currently listens to and enjoy bands in the progressive rock sub-genes of symphonic, neo-prog and some prog-metal. However, he's  very open-minded to explore new (or new to him) styles under the "progressive rock" banner.

Ron also maintains a CD and DVD review site called "ProgNaut.com" which has a rather unique mission statement, all reviews are done from the fan’s point of view. Ever since 2001, he has been expanding the ProgNaut.com site each consecutive year. Starting in September 2010 he will unveil a new hands-on version plus more at the site.

Kat Heitzman is an artist and enjoys painting and drawing. She has worked as a freelance photographer since 2004 and has photos in Wormwood Chronicles as well as Music Street Journal.  Kat was a photographer for Inter-State Studio for 4 years, taking school photos and has also done family portraits. Her music tastes include rock, metal and punk and she enjoys a variety of other music.  She is currently living in the northern Illinois area with her husband - where she enjoys family, the outdoors, and plenty of good live music shows.

England-based Alison got into prog rock at the tender age of 12 when she was introduced to Curved Air who were closely followed by Yes, her all time favourites, ELP and Focus. She decided to become a journalist when she was 15 and went to college to train as one before joining a local newspaper in England. However, plans to become a music journalist were thwarted when punk music became fashionable. But she wrote album, festival and concert reviews on both newspapers on which she worked.  Since then, her day job has been as a public relations and press manager for three different organisations.

Over the decades, she has been to countless concerts and still has an enormous passion for all things rock and prog. Current favourites include Rush, Pallas, Pendragon, Credo, Transatlantic , Steve Hackett plus new Greek band Verbal Delirium. However, she is keeping her counsel on the latest incarnation of Yes.

Ambitions including writing a book documenting the many highlights of her gig-going life, provisionally entitled "How To Be A Progressive Woman."

Mark, (aka "The Prof") has been writing reviews since 2009 for Prognaut.com. He’s been a fan of music for over 40 years and has watched rock move through its Golden Years to where we are today. The Prof’s favorite music lies with the blues and symphonic or art progressive rock, but will listen to just about anything accept country that doesn’t rock or rap and heavy metal that threatens Armageddon.

The Prof grew up in a time when music was not allowed at work, or even in the car. So now he makes up for the lost time by listening to music any chance he gets. Yes, everywhere thanks to the digital age. The Prof does write in depth reviews analyzing, (some may say over – analyzing), (try to remember he’s a prof), the emotional impact and feeling of the music he reviews. The prof’s philosophy is that reviewers should be willing to spend some time describing the music in detail.

Mindy fell in love with music at an early age. She attended a creative and performing arts school and performed vocally with the  Rockford area arts council, Kouncil Korealers.

Mindy has performed in several musical workshops, the opera "La Boheme," made an independent acapella album and performed at the "Holiday Pops" concert with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. Her musical interests range from The Beatles to System of a Down. Mindy was born, raised and is currently living in the Northern Illinois area.

Scott Montgomery is a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art History at the University of Denver, where he also teaches a course on the Art and Visual Culture of Rock and Roll.  Yes, he has a Ph.D. (Rutgers) and continues to pile it higher and deeper with published articles on the art of medieval pilgrimage and saint’s cults.  Two books are forthcoming in 2009 – a study of the Relics, Reliquaries and Visual Culture of St. Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins of Cologne (try saying that three times fast after a few shots!) and an account/analysis of his experience walking a 1,000-mile medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, which he co-authored with his lovely wife Alice.  He has already begun his next bevy of projects – books on psychedelic poster artists Lee Conklin and Wes Wilson, and a larger study of the Visual Culture of Rock and Roll.  Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he has lived, laughed, and enjoyed music in numerous states (solid, liquid, and ethereal) and countries in the course of his peregrinations - from Oregon to Italy, New Jersey to New Delhi, Texas to Germany.

Though rather musically omnivorous, his greatest aural loves are progressive tock, with a deep and unbridled love for both Italian symphonic prog (Banco, Le Orme, Locanda delle Fate) and the more delightfully challenging varieties (Magma, Univers Zero, Frank Zappa) and psychedelia, both older (Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane) and newish (Bevis Frond, Outskirts of Infinity).  He has a lot of music, but the most LPs/CDs in the collection are by J.S. Bach, Miles Davis, and Frank Zappa – ‘nuff said…  Like most “normal” people he has been passionately listening to music for many moons, though he has not mooned many musicians.  His first rock concert – The Tubes in 1975  - was a real mind-blower for a 12-year old boy in the third row.  Probably as a result of this brain-addling introduction to live music, he also writes songs and plays – badly….but says, ”it keeps me amused.”

John grew up in Solihull, England in the 70s, happily listening to Slade, Sweet, T Rex, The Osmonds and the rest on Top Of The Pops. He received true enlightenment at the age of 16 when introduced to the real sounds of the 70s - Deep Purple, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush etc. - just as many of those bands started to appear on the endangered species list. . .A deep and abiding love of progressive rock began, which was kept alive during the lean years of the 80s and 90s by collecting old King Crimson, ELP and Genesis LPs. His favourite band just has to be Yes (first attended concert was on the Drama tour in 1980; most recent was on 2011's Fly From Here tour), closely followed by other progressive big guns such as Jethro Tull, Crimson, Genesis and Rush. He also loves heavy metal, and has followed tragically-overlooked Birmingham rockers Magnum for many years.

Despite getting his first bass guitar for his 18th birthday, it wasn't until well into his 20s that he overcame his fear of crowds and began playing bass in local bands, getting nowhere special but having lots of fun in the process. His bass gods include Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Mike Rutherford and Tony Levin (a pantheon now joined by EST's Don Berglund). He has since added guitar, mandolin, bouzouki and fretless guitar to his musical tool-box, and is always on the lookout for more weird instruments to learn. After several successful years in Birmingham band The Earthmovers and country rock trio Randolph Flagg ("which became a progressive Country Rock trio once I was on board - much more interesting!"), John returned to his prog-rock roots in the 21st Century as bassist with 1912. He also plays bass, guitar and various other instruments in the acclaimed industrial/space-rock virtual collective Omenopus.

Working as an electronic/IT engineer during the day and playing music by night, John still found time to write reviews of albums and concerts for local music magazine Xposed and the online Solihull Gig Guide. He maintains web sites for most of his old and current bands, and enjoys music production and creating album artwork. With an electronics and model-making background, he enjoys customizing guitars, but perhaps with more enthusiasm than skill! His beloved Rickenbacker 4001 has taken the brunt of many of his experiments (and some knocks on the road), but remains a beautiful instrument. John joined Music Street Journal as a reviewer after reading reviews of the latest Omenopus and 1912 releases, and getting the "bug" to write again. John also draws and paints (although not so often, these days), and writes short stories and poetry. His favourite reading matter is science fiction novels and super-hero comics (favourite writers include: Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, Mike Baron, Micheal Moorcock, JRR Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Kim Stanley Robinson). He lives on the Lickey Hills, near Longbridge, Birmingham. In addition to writing at Music Street Journal, John serves as assistant editor.

When his album collection at age 10 included Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Elton John and Stevie Wonder, it was no surprise that when he finally got on his high school newspaper staff that Scott Prinzing started writing album reviews.  For the next three decades he has continued to freelance as a music journalist and concert photographer, more for the love of it than any financial reward.  Scott is a lover of many genres of music, but his hip-hop and punk collections are limited to American Indian and Montana musicians – areas of specialization.  He is the author of the Montana curriculum guide and compilation CD, American Indian music: More Than Just Flutes and Drums, and produced the public radio show, Montana Muse, for several years during his decade-long stint as a weekly newspaper columnist on the music scene in Billings, Montana.  He performs with his wife in the progressive folk duo, Earthshine, which is how he first learned of Music Street Journal (thanks, Larry!).  He and his wife also run MusEco Media & Education Project, a non-profit (very literally) that produces Green Smarts with the Green Man, PSAs on sustainable living in which he stars.  He is thrilled to have a new avenue to justify his need to listen to, and tell others about great music.