According to Encyclopedia Mettalum: Rainbow, despite being thought of as a fully fledged band, had always been more of a Ritchie Blackmore solo project. The band started out as a side project...
Normally, this is the place where the gang would drop their podcast about an obscure but interesting movie and we'd promote the heck out of that movie-based podcast. You'd listen to them talk about...
A short time ago fellow Phantom Sway contributor Kris Nigh turned me on to this band out of Boston called Ripe and I have since been digging their videos on YouTube and their tracks on Spotify. After...
Phantom Sway's Jimmie Bise shared a version of this song on Twitter the other day and reminded me that this band and song existed. Named for a town in British Columbia, Chilliwack is apparently still...
Very few things make me happier than Christmas music. Yes, I know, I am Jewish. Yes, I know that the (say it with a roll of your eyes - in one breath): cultural preponderance of...
As 2016 comes to a close, we wanted to take a minute and look back to see what some of our Phantom Sway featured artists have been up to. Chicago’s very own DJ Mega Mike still spends his days...
When I was young boy, my father owned a Firestone tire dealership. Every year at Christmastime, the Firestone Corporation distributed albums to their dealers to hand out as purchase premiums....
Okay, I’ll admit it: saying this is my favorite Christmas album is a total front-runner move. It’s like saying, “My favorite football team is the San Francisco 49ers: The Montana Years.” And...
I reached out to the peeps in one of my music Facebook groups to share with us their favorite Christmas album or song and the reasons why. The people in this group are music junkies. They have...
Ahhh, once again, the Yuletide brings out the nostalgic in me. Christmases of old, back when I was a little kid—no cell phones, no internet, no Lena Dunham, you know, when things were so much...
