‘Tis the Season…
…for some free music! Noisetrade is offering a download of Over The Rhine’s Christmas album, “Snow Angels”. Nice, jazzy/folk holiday music. Click the album cover to go to the download page. Tagged:...
View ArticleMatt Stevens’s Silent Night.
Two things I never hide: my love of Christmas Music and my love of the music of guitarist Matt Stevens. Matt is one of our single best living guitarists. Here, he puts his own very reverent and...
View ArticleHave Yourself a Proggy Little Christmas…
Brad has already discussed A Proggy Christmas by The Prog World Orchestra (and very good it is, too!) but there are yet more musical treats out there to get you in the mood during the festive season....
View ArticleThe Greatest Christmas Rock Song
Dan Flynn makes a very strong case that the greatest Christmas rock song is The Kinks’ “Father Christmas“: The number that most embodies the spirit of the season depicts a violent robbery of Santa...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from LEAH
An amazing “Merry Christmas” gift has appeared just this evening! Leah writes on her Facebook page: Here is my gift to all you beautiful people! A symphonic metal Christmas EP from me to you! Best of...
View ArticleA Little More Seasonal Joy: Mike Kershaw’s WINTER
As I mentioned in the previous post, there are lots of new musical offerings this Christmas season. Of course, what a tradition! Some of the great seasonal recording of the not so distant past:...
View ArticleKevin McCormick discusses “In Dulci Jubilo: Songs of Christmas for Guitar and...
The following interview with guitarist and composer Kevin McCormick was originally posted on Catholic World Report last week, but I am posting here as Kevin is a fellow Progarchist, he is a fabulous...
View ArticleThe Albums that Changed My Life: #7, O Come All Ye Faithful by The Choir of...
by Rick Krueger Hearing this album was what really confirmed me — a fourth-generation American of German ancestry and Lutheran upbringing — as a lifelong, diehard Anglophile. As a unlooked-for bonus,...
View ArticleHave a Very Merry Prog Christmas
I’d like to strike the next person who says “Christmas this year will look a bit different.” Well it doesn’t have to sound different. If you find yourself alone this Christmas Eve/Christmas (like me),...
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