Tag: music
Is This Iggy Pop’s Ciao Bella to the Masses?
My favorite album of 2018 isn’t an album at all. And it feels like a farewell from an American classic. For 50 years, Iggy Pop has been a barrel of nitrous oxide hooked to a V12 engine, a kick drum...
KISS: A Begrudging Appreciation
When venerable rockers, chest-hair farmers, and Kabuki-makeup enthusiasts KISS recently announced their umpteenth farewell tour, the Internet went understandably alight with snarky indignation....
Albums For Millennials: Gene Clark’s “No Other”
When Eminem unexpectedly dropped his new album, Kamikaze, on August 31, it made headlines around the world in a matter of hours -- and rightly so. Em’s one of the most important artists on the...
The Phantom Playlist for April 7, 2018: Back in the Day
It's been a dreary, rainy day here on the East Coast, which almost begs for some tunes from a time when boy and girl groups who could sing harmonies without Autotune ruled the world. You can dance to...
The Soundtrack of my life… by James Michael Pink
We are afforded moments of clarity from time to time, those rare moments of time when memory and opportunity collide. At times like this, reflection and introspection are suddenly in the forefront...
The Phantom Playlist for March 17, 2018: Get Up and Dance!
This week, we around Phantom Sway think it's time for a dance break. It's been a tough week, hasn't it? Kind of dreary and cold and maybe filled with 19 feet of snow? The news has been, well, the...
The Phantom Playlist for March 10, 2018: Who’s that Head Talking?
Our playlist this weekend celebrates the funky bass work of Tina Weymouth, one of the finest bass players whose name you probably have never known. The Talking Heads have changed their musical style...
The Phantom Playlist for March 3, 2018: Easy, Peasy, Kind of Breezy
I don't know if you noticed, but the East Coast Branch Office of Phantom Sway experienced a bit of weather. Maybe some of you experienced a bit of weather, too. If so, this playlist is for you,...
The Phantom Playlist for February 24, 2018: Let’s Be Petty
It's not been five months since Tom Petty died, so let's spend the weekend jamming on some of his best. I made sure to dig deep into a few of his albums to find some songs you might not have heard...