Blue Plate Special Archives – Page 6 of 8

May 20, 2023

Blue Plate Special: Easy

Another discount CD bin find, I picked up Easy’s first album, “Magic Seed,” around 1995-1996 because of its interesting cover,...

April 8, 2023

Robyn Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist born on March 3, 1953, in London, England. He first gained prominence...

February 25, 2023

Wire is a pioneering British rock band that emerged from the London punk scene in the late 1970s, and is,...

February 18, 2023

Public Image Limited (PiL) is an English post-punk band formed in 1978 by John Lydon, former lead singer of the...

February 11, 2023

Big Audio Dynamite (or BAD) was an English band formed in 1984 by Mick Jones, who was the former lead...

February 4, 2023

One of my earliest music purchases (in the summer of 1982, I believe) was a compilation cassette that I picked...

January 28, 2023

A four-piece founded in Leeds, England in 1987, CUD remains one of my all-time favorite bands. I first heard their...

January 21, 2023

Winner of both the 2005 BBC Radio 1 Beatbox Championships and the Channel 4 Talent Awards in the UK, ThePETEBOX...

January 14, 2023

Since being introduced to the bands Bauhaus and Tones on Tail back in 1983, I have been a fan of...

January 7, 2023

From his start at the age of 15 until his untimely death in 2016 at 69, David Bowie was one...