Blue Plate Special: Metric
Metric are a Toronto-born Canadian indie rock band formed in 1998, built around the songwriting partnership of Emily Haines and...
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Blue Plate Special: The Killers
The Killers emerged from Las Vegas in 2001, a city better known for spectacle than guitar bands, and turned that...
Blue Plate Special: This Picture
This Picture emerged from England’s Bath–Cheltenham corridor at the very end of the ’80s, a moment when alternative rock was...
Blue Plate Special: Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer cultivated a persona that felt as meticulously tailored as his suits: cool, cosmopolitan, and effortlessly genre-fluid. His voice,...
Blue Plate Special: Brian Eno (Part 2)
As mentioned in Part 1, Brian Eno is an English musician, producer, and artistic provocateur whose work since the early...
Blue Plate Special: Brian Eno (Part 1)
Brian Eno emerged in the early 1970s as a provocateur of sound, intent on dismantling traditional ideas of what rock...
Blue Plate Special: The Strokes
The Strokes emerged from late-1990s New York City as a band that made restraint feel radical. Formed by Julian Casablancas,...
Blue Plate Special: Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus) writes songs the way a sharp-eyed novelist writes scenes: quick cuts, bright details, and...
Blue Plate Special: Big Country
Big Country emerged from Dunfermline, Scotland in the early 1980s with a sound that felt less like pop music and...
Blue Plate Special: Depeche Mode
Not sure why I neglected adding them for so long, but here you go:Â From the start, Depeche Mode looked and...
