Musical Sampler, Volume 4
Another five selections from my personal playlists, in no particular order. In this weekly series, I share songs and artists that I listen...
Category: Music
Musical Sampler, Volume 3
Another five selections from my personal playlists, in no particular order. In this weekly series, I share songs and artists that I listen...
Musical Sampler, Volume 2
Here we are with five more selections from my personal playlists, in no particular order. In this weekly series, I share songs and...
Musical Sampler, Volume 1
I’ve been sharing my favorite music on the Blue Plate Special series for just over 5 years, with new posts every Saturday. But there...
Blue Plate Special: The Lightning Seeds
The Lightning Seeds emerged from Liverpool at the dawn of the 1990s as the creative vision of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Broudie, whose...
Blue Plate Special: Suede
Few bands have captured the romance, tension, and cinematic grandeur of modern British rock quite like Suede, known in the United States as The...
Blue Plate Special: Simple Minds
Simple Minds occupy a unique place in modern music history, standing at the crossroads where post-punk experimentation, European art rock, electronic innovation, and stadium-sized...
Blue Plate Special: Howard Jones
Howard Jones emerged in the early 1980s as one of synth-pop’s most distinctive voices, blending cutting-edge electronic music with an optimism that set him...
Blue Plate Special: Yazoo
Emerging from the unlikely collision of two very different musical worlds in the industrial town of Basildon, Essex, Yazoo (known as Yaz in North...
Blue Plate Special: Sunny Day Real Estate
Born in the shadow of Seattle’s grunge explosion, Sunny Day Real Estate emerged in 1992 as something altogether different. While the Pacific Northwest was...
