After sold-out shows in Europe, Asia and America, the tremendous success of Avantasia‘s ‘Ghostlights World Tour 2016/2017’ culminated in a headline show at Wacken Open Air, which was broadcast live on German national TV. Next year, Tobias Sammet‘s Avantasia is getting back on the road to present their new album MOONGLOW, due to be released in January 2019. Their unique […]
via AVANTASIA announce 2019 world tour + new studio album Moonglow — The Rockin’ Chair
Happy Star Trek Day! I’m a doctor not an escalator! …Let’s see what new releases are out on this glorious day. Ihsahn – Ámr New releases from the prog/black metal wizard are always big news. But I’ve grown a bit wary. I really enjoyed 2010’s After and subsequent releases have been good but I’ve rarely […]
A great DJ is just a step below a great producer and sound engineer.
From time to time, I’ve considered joining a streaming service permanently. I’ve toyed around with Spotify, Pandora, and iTUNES.
I just can’t understand the attraction.
There was a time in my life, I really loved radio. From the years between late grade school and the end of high school (class of 1986), I listened faithfully to Wichita’s KICT-95. The station introduced me–rather gloriously–to album rock radio, back when radio actually played entire sides of albums. I got to know the DJs, the music, and their various programs. I knew when to expect a full album side, and when to expect the latest news in the rock world. I knew when T-95 broadcast concerts, and I knew when the radio station sponsored bands to play live in Wichita. It was a golden age of rock. I was always far more taken with prog than I was with acid or hard rock, but T-95 presented all as a rather cohesive whole, thanks to the quality of the DJs.
But, streaming? I just don’t get it. It’s bland. It’s tapioca. There’s no personality, no matter how great the music is.
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Everyone’s beloved Zee Baig–master of all things prog in Chicago–has released a new video. Enjoy!
Not a huge amount out today, compared to last week’s madness anyway, but there are a couple of important new releases at least! Voices – Frightened This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Comprised mostly of ex and current Akercocke members (with links to other great bands like Shrines and The Antichrist Imperium), Voices’ […]
Third time’s charm. . . or, so says the wisdom of old wives. Just moments ago–after two shipping mishaps–my personal copy of Jerry Ewing’s WONDEROUS STORIES arrived safe and sound at progarchy HQ. I’m just about to take the cellophane off and enjoy some true beauty.
Thank you, Jerry, master of all that is prog.
To check out the official progarchist review of Ewing’s masterpiece, go here (thank you, Rick!).
To order Ewing’s masterpiece in the U.S., click here.
Back in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a superstition developed in the classical music world that prophesied the Ninth would be a composer’s last symphony. Arnold Schoenberg summed it up in an eloquent fashion, stating that “he who wants to go beyond it must pass away. 825 more words
via Gustav Mahler and the Curse of the Ninth Symphony — The Imaginative Conservative
Back in January, Ukrainian female-fronted atmospheric black metal act Devildom released their debut album Curse of Flesh, which since then has been receiving rave reviews from the media. Launching today is a music video for the song titled “No One” taken from the album. Watch it below, exclusively premiered by Prog Sphere. “No One” was…
via Exclusive: DEVILDOM Launch Music Video for “No One” — Prog Sphere
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